Talk:Casper the Friendly Ghost
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[edit] Wendy The Good Little Witch
Wikipedia redirects 'Wendy the Good Little Witch' to the Casper entry. While Wendy was occasionally a supporting player in the Casper comics and cartoons, she was also the star of her own comic book series and occasional cartoon shorts. Shouldn't she have her own entry? The Casper entry doesn't even mention her!
[edit] Misc.
"Casper went on to become one of the most famous properties from the studio. Alfred Harvey, publisher of Harvey Comics began producing Casper comic books in 1952, and in 1957 purchased the rights to"
This sentence is incomplete. Any idea what he bought the rights to? Number 0 19:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- "...the character outright." Fixed. --b. Touch 21:14, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Origins
Years ago (~1980) I heard that "Casper the Friendly Ghost" was named after "Casper Milquetoast" (maybe spelled Caspar). Milquetoast was a comic strip character created in 1924 and named after "milk toast" because he was bland, timid, and colorless. So the creator of Casper (the ghost) is really satirizing his own creation. Being a ghost, Casper could be powerful and intimidating figure, but instead he chooses to be vapid and inoffensive.
Casper Milquetoast was a colorless character, but Casper the Ghost is literally colorless -- transparent, and even invisible sometimes.
(This sort of speculation doesn't belong in the main article, does it? It would make the article more interesting.)
[edit] Category - urban legends
Why is this included in Category:Films based on urban legends ? This is not the page for the film, and what urban legend anyway ? -- Beardo 21:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
