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All All. Sign In. Parents guide. Content rating. A couple of chaste kisses, a couple of vague sexual references. Casper mocks hanging himself to dissuade Kat from going out with a boy. Some mild comic violence including a humerous fight scene. Ghosts pull out guns and attempt to kill a man. Two characters die and later on in the film turn into ghosts.

Profanity Add an item. Casper became one of Harvey's most popular characters, headlining several comic book titles. Casper was developed by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolothe former devising the idea for the character and the latter providing illustrations. In the original Harveytoons animation, Casper has been seen standing next to a grave inscribed with "Casper", that supports the theory he is indeed a ghost.

Originally, stories have shown that his visibility is due to wearing a sheet. In the Casper live-action film, this is not shown and it is implied that he is naturally visible to humans as a white creature. This one-time payment was all that he received, missing out on a share of the revenue earned from the films, comic books and merchandise to come.

The Friendly Ghostthe first Noveltoon to feature Casper, was released by Paramount in with a few differences from the book. In the cartoon adaptation, Casper is a cute ghost-child with a New York accent who inhabits a haunted house along with a community of adult ghosts who delight in scaring the living. Casper, in contrast, is a nonconformist among ghosts: he casper parents prefer to make friends with people.

He packs up his belongings and goes out into the world, hoping to find friends. However, the animals that he meets a rooster, a mole, a cat, a mouse named Hermanand a group of hens take one horrified look at him, scream: "A ghost! Distraught, Casper unsuccessfully attempts to commit suicide apparently forgetting that he is already dead by lying down on a railway track before an oncoming train, before he meets two children named Bonnie and Johnny who become his friends.

The children's mother, apparently widowed and impoverished, at first is frightened of Casper, but later welcomes him into the family after he unintentionally frightens off a greedy landlord, who, unwilling to own a "haunted" house, tears up the mortgage and gives her the house outright. The short ends with the mother kissing Bonnie, Johnny, and Casper as she sends them off to school, with Casper wearing clothing as if he were a living child.

There's Good Boos To-Night differs wildly from later Casper cartoons: although the theme of Casper trying to find a friend and failing in these attempts before succeeding also occurs in later cartoons, the tone of this short turns remarkably dark when a hunter and his dogs appear, chasing the little fox cub named Ferdie that Casper has befriended.

Although Casper scares the hunter and dogs away, Casper discovers Ferdie dead after a harrowing chase scene. Happily, however, Ferdie returns as a ghost to join his friend Casper in the afterlife. These three cartoons were initially billed as Noveltoons before Paramount started the official Casper the Friendly Ghost series inand ran the theatrical releases until summer Most of the caspers parents in the series were relatively the same: Casper now slightly thinner than the pudgy figure that appeared in the earlier cartoons escapes from the afterlife of a regular ghost because he finds that scaring people can be tiresome year after year, tries to find friends but inadvertently scares almost everyone, and finally finds a cute little friend, whom he saves from some sort of fate, leading to his acceptance by those initially scared of him.

Animation historian Leonard Maltinin his book Of Mice and Magiccriticized the series for its over-reliance on repetition, saying that Casper was "the most monotonous character to invade cartoonland since Mighty Mouse.

Casper parents

It seemed as it every Casper cartoon followed the same story line, with only minor variations. Casper was first published in comics form in August by St. John Publicationsrunning for five issues until September Casper went on to headline a large number of comic book series, as well as appearing in back up stories and guest appearances in other titles.

Casper's titles include:. Much casper parents The Man of Steel and Batman: Year One did with their respective characters, it revamped Casper and several other Harvey characters for a new audience. After selling 6, copies of the first comic, the last two issues were published in Casper has starred in five television shows: [ 13 ]. After Harvey bought the rights to Casper and many other Famous properties in including Herman and KatnipLittle Audreyand Baby Hueythey began broadcasting the post-September theatrical Famous shorts on a television show sponsored by Mattel Toys titled Matty's Funday Funnies on ABC in which introduced the Barbie doll to the public.

The other Famous produced Casper cartoons had already been acquired by television distributor U. TV Corporation in The original Casper cartoons were syndicated under the title Harveytoons initially repackaged as Casper and Company in and ran continuously until the mids. Casper has remained popular in reruns and merchandising. None of Casper's original co-stars appeared in the show.

InAmblin Entertainment and Universal Cartoon Studios created a new Casper series for Fox Kids called The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casperbased on the feature, that lasted two years and was never seen on television again after A new live-action television series is in the works at Peacockco-produced between Universal Content Productions and DreamWorks Animation with Wu Kai-yu writing and executive producing.

Casper would have appeared at Marvin Acme's funeral, rising from Acme's grave as his coffin is lowered, scaring away the mourners. The funeral scene was storyboarded but cut before being animated. The film constructed a back-story for the character and is the only time in the series that the question of his death has been addressed. According to the film, Casper was a twelve-year-old boy living in Whipstaff Manor with his inventor father J.

McFadden until he died from pneumonia after playing out in the cold until it was past nightfall. InHarvey Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media which, untillicensed the Harvey properties including Casper. Casper made a cameo in a MetLife commercial along with several other cartoon characters in Later that same year, Classic Media was acquired by DreamWorks Animationwhich in turn would be acquired by NBCUniversal inand thus Universal Studiosthe producer of the original live-action feature film, now manages the rights to the casper parents and other related characters in addition to regaining the rights to Casper's Haunted Christmas which Universal itself originally released in late InShout!

In subsequent years Windows 95 and Game Boy Advance games were released serving as sequels to the film. The player must collect at least 15 Casper coins from these five games to unlock Kibosh's Magic Puzzle. It is a mostly 2D side-scrolling platform game with occasional forward and backward movements. The evil Kibosh has invented a device to send Casper's human friends to a place where they "would not have a ghost of a chance of being found" and has hypnotized the Ghostly Trio into doing his bidding.

However Casper finds a page from a map of Hollywood giving him a clue on where to start his quest to find his friends and the three missing pieces for Kibosh's imprisoning device to get them back home safely. The game is played across ten levels set around the world with 40 friendship crystals on each level to collect in order to advance to the bonus level at the end.

It was released in for PlayStation 2 and in for GameCube. The evil Kibosh has taken over the Spirit World and is intent on also taking over the mortal world. Meanwhile, Wendy the Good Little Witch summons Casper, the only remaining free ghost, and opens the portals to the Spirit Dimensions to help in their only chance to defeat Kibosh. Developed by Data Design Interactive and published by Blast!

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