Character of the month: Hot stuff the little devil

This is the turn of my favorite character of casper franchise, hot stuff the mischievous little demon,  In 1957 After the great success of casper the friendly ghost and Wendy the little good witch, Harvey comics decided to create another characteer based on children's fears and make it harmless and funny, usually all the small children are afraid of the devil, just like ghost and witches, this time  the center of attention was a devil kid named Hot stuff,  A popular theory implies that Hot Stuff was created using Evil casper from the cartoon "fright from wrong" 1957 as main inspiration, which makes him casper's antithesis.

Unlike Casper and wendy which are friendly characters Hot stuff was imbued with a michevous personality, As with all Harvey kid characters, most of the “bad” characters are merely mischievous at heart, and usually have good intentions, despite being a little bit rascally. Harvey had such high hopes for Hot Stuff, so much so that it didn't even debut as a supporting feature or in the Harvey Hits tryout series before going to its own series. It turned out to be a wise choice since Hot Stuff ranks as one of the most popular characters to come out of Harvey after Casper and Richie Rich, Hot stuff debuted in octuber of 1957 just in time for halloween.

Hot Stuff was originally the only recurrent character of his comics, but soon new faces were added to his supporting charactes; Aunt clinker, Grandpa blaze, Cousing demon: (Hot stuff's stupid cousin), and Charma the fairy princess, character that serves as hot stuff's girlfriend,  she is just decribed as hot stuff's main love interest actually  in the future Hot stuff became an adult and married her.

A devil and a fairy I am curious about how they children would look

 Despite living in the same universe than Wendy and Casper Hot stuff  hags out with them just ocasionally, Some fans think he is a toddler because he wears a diaper but actually even adult devils wear diapers in his comics, and he in the same age than casper.

All the devils wear diapers, strange isnt?

Hot Stuff has retained a relatively low profile over the years, compared to other Harvey characters. This is primarily due to the fact that he has never appeared in an animated film, nor has he appeared on a great deal of merchandise. An animated series was attempted in the 60s and again in the 70s, but it was cancelled because a series with a devil as main character was considered too dark for kids, but the character's nature  have unfortunately kept him off the airwaves, , he only appearead in comic books and a small/decent  amount of merchandise,

Punk suits hot stuff really well

In 2009 He reappeared along with wendy and Casper  in the modern reboot of the series titled "casper and the spectrals" which had a darker tone than the old comics, However in casper and the espectrals Hot Stuff has taken on more of a punk kid look visually, so he wears a more casual outfit a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and a spike bracelet but He is the same mischevous devil kid from the old havey comics, but this time we were able to meet his family also he was rewritten as the son of the ruler of deviland the realm of the demons in the underworld, actually this is the first hot stuff version I met, and I really liked this little rascal.

Hot stuff also made a small cameo in the simpsons, in the episode "Treehouse of horror XXV" he appears as one of the demons trapped in super hell.

But we can be sure this won't be his last appeareance outside from comics, since recently Dreamworks,company that owns the rights of all the harvey characters including casper and hot stuff, announced they are working on a Hot stuff movie.

Name: Hot stuff

Species: Devil / fire demon

First appearance: Hot stuff the little devil (1957)

Powers and abilities:  Flight, invisibility, fire manipulation,intangiblity, fire inmunity, teleportation, super speed,  control of body temperature, minor forms of magic, fire-dependent regenerative healing factor, flame breath.