I know I dont't post a character every month, but I don't care just realised I posted a comic with hot stuff and spooky but I never introduced the latter..... some people (mainly casper's scare school fans) may be wondering Who the hell is this character? is this another casper ripoff? So I decided to write a post about him...
Spooky is casper's michievous cousin that actually likes to scare humas, which makes him pretty much casper's opposite, pretty much what woulf happen if Hot stuff and casper had a baby with a brooklin accent.
But actually Spooky is one of the oldest characters in casper franchice in fact he has been arround nearly the same time than the ghostly trio, spooky debuted in casper the friendly ghost #10 in 1953,,
Afteer a pair of years appearing in casper comics Harvey decided spooky was popular enough to star his own comic:
Spooky in the new adventures of casper
Spooky also apeared in a lot of casper media, he appeared in some of the best episodes of the original casper show, april's fool episode from that show, is one of the most memorable spooky appearences, Spooky also was one of the main characters in the 90's hit series; the spooktacular new aventures of casper,, despite being auscent in the movie which this cartoon is based on he became one of the funniest characters of the show, later he appearend in casper's haunted christmas His last appearence was as a minor character in the comic book "casper and the spectrals" from 2010.
I must admit the little rascal is one of my favorite characters in casper franchice, he is mean, mischevous, loves to scare humans and he always gets into funny situations, but the best part of the character is his relationship with his girlfriend known as pearl aka poil their character interaction is one of the funniest and wackiest in casper series ... Sure they had a ton of couple problems, even spooky tried date other girls, but in the end they make a really good pairing.
Name; Spooky
Species; Ghost
Powers and abilities: Flight, invisibility, intangibility, shape-shiffting, super scream.
First appearance: casper the friendly ghost #10 (1953)
Today I will do something different, I will post a scan of a classic comic book of the havey characters, this is a good oportunity to post a story starring two of my favorite characters in casper franchise, Hot stuff the little devil and spooky tha tuff little ghost (casper's cousin).
Spooky was lucky he is ghost, otherwise that giant iceberge from outer space would have killed him, I mean look at the size of that crater,
KIds dont do this, when an UFO from outer space lands over your head, pressing the red buttons is never a good idea
I know the comics are old, but did really people think aliens looked like that? the first one is just a dude wearing a viking helmet, well the second one is a bit less patetic, but it looks lile the typical ogres from harvey comics.
wait, aren't ghost uncorporeal? How can they be frozen by an ordinary alien weapon designed for mundane beings? Nobody knows, but the biggest mystery, is the "boo" being turned to crystals What kind of avanced technology is that?
Wait Is pearl using a plant as a phone? Forget about alien technology! the enchanted forest has way more advanced stuff.
Blasting those aliens to mars sure puts spooky on superman's power level, but I am more suprised of how Ghost are able to eat.. I mean they have not organs to digest food, also at least Hot stuff and charma can make babies, but I am not so sure about spooky and pearl, anyway the last panel is a really cute escene of "puppy love".
Casper may be an obscure character nowadays, mainly because the failure of the latest attemps of bringing the character to new audiences (casper's scare school wasn't popular at all) but back in the day casper was one of the most popular cartoon characters ever In fact he was the second most recognizable cartoon character, only surpassed by Micky mouse, so its not strange that some people tried to jump in the wagon of casper's popularity.....
These are my favorite casper copycats...
4.- Timmy the timid ghost
Created in 1956 as an attemp to milk casper's popularity, timmy was a ghost with... a timid personality, yes the writeres werent original even at naming thiir ripoff, timmy looked like casper if if was a cartoon form the 30's, this copycats was one of first characters that tried to copy casper and one of the most successful since this comic book series ran from 1956 to 1971.
3.-Super spook
From Ajax comics, also known as Mighty ghost, the series follows the adventures of a ghost boy with superpowers. it is basically what would happen if superman and casper had a baby, this series only ran for a few issues before ajax created an even more original characters that will appear next on the list.
2.- Spunky the smiling spook
Published by the same original autors behind Super pook, spunky is casper's lost twin brother, a little friendly ghost, just like casper, even they look so alike, if someone removes the titile I could mistake this book for a casper comic, but unlike casper spunky had a little more mischievous personality, which resembles Spooky, caspers cousin wih a suspecius similar name,
1.- Homer the happy Ghost.
So far we have seen many shameless ripoffs, so maybe you wonder... how can anyone beat spunky? Obviously you never heard of Homer the Happy ghost, it was a really special cause since it was created by Atlas comic nowadays known as Marvel comics, even the Legenday Stan lee wrote most of its stories, So I am sure he would become a member of the avengers in the marvel cinemetic universe, ok that is not likely, but Homer beats Spunky because even he has His own version of Spooky, renamed Dungan the dead end Ghost (see the picture above)
Even if you don't believe I'm still alive its just I have been too busy with school, and lost control over my life, but I will try to spend more time on this blog and upload new content and news, By the way I already Fixed the issues with the casper's scare school links so enjoy, also will uploadad more episodes of the spooktacular new aventures of casper.
Happy halloween, after talking about classic characters I think its time for something different, a Character which isn't part of the original cannon, but became really popular among the fans of the lastest casper's animated series, especially among girls, Of course I mean Thatch the vampire he is like a fangirl magnet.
Thatch debuted in the movie Casper's scare school in 2006, despite being much less popular than other casper movies, introduced a lot of new characters for a new generations of casper fans, well it is a reboot tageted to an public that never read the otiginal casper comics, and I pretty sure thatch is the most popular Casper's scare school character since he stars most of css fanart and fiction.
In the movie the vampire is introduced as the big man at school, the schoool bully and alder and dash's right hand, Thatch casper's opposite mean, unfriendly,arrogant he acts like the main antagonist of the film and casper's rival, manly because the vampire hates casper's friendly personality and tried to get casper expelled, from scare school,
In the TV series he is the leader of his own gang that is always looking for trouble, but he also has different roles, sometimes he helps casper but most of the time he acts like a jerk, especially in the second season where the writers made him the main villain, he made some of the most evil things we have seen in the franchise, very sadly for his fans that wanted him to be a good guy, yeah troll writers!!
He is basically the "Draco malfoy" of casper franchise, that isn't someting bad since I have to admit he was one of funniest character of the series, always gettting into hilarious situations like kissing a frog, being kicked by mickey and he also kissed the sea monster of scare school, it is important to say most of the fanfiction writers use him as main character in their stories and love to pair him with their oc's , He is one of the few CSS character that brought sometime new to the table, this is the first time casper has a rival, and that makes him an interesting addition to the franchise, although CSS was cancelled, seeing thatch again It would be interensting.
Name: Thatch Species: vampire Powers: , bat form (flight) First appareance: Casper's scare school. (2006)
Now I finally updated all the Scare school episodes to the blog, but I don't know how to make the blog more popular,so I am going to update episodes of one of my favorite casper cartoons: The spooktacular new aventures of casper, this show was created in the 90's as an spinoff of the first casper movie, (which is in my opinion the best casper media after casper and the spectrals) the series has a funnier tone than previus casper cartoons, mainly because the character break the fourth wall pretty often, it is kinda similar to series such as animatiacs, More episodes soon.
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.
