Talk:Casper the Friendly Ghost

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Contents 1 Wendy The Good Little Witch 2 Misc. 3 Origins 4 Category - urban legends 5 casper animated series or spooktacular adventures of casper 6 Transparency? 7 Casper in Stereotoon, "Boo Moon"

[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)

[edit] casper animated series or spooktacular adventures of casper

After the success of the film in 1995, Harvey entertaiment and also Fox Kids Network started a new animated series based on the new film script. In this series, called, The Spooktacular advuentures of Casper every New Character that appeared in the film Was translated into a cartoon. Stretch, Stinkie, Fatso, Kat and Doctor Harvey appeared in 2D, the voice over was played by the same actors of the movie. But it was not only the contiuation of the 1995 movie, new characters made thir apparition, like Mrs Banshee (Casper's teacher, who owned the Ghostly trio's love) and many more. The old characters of The Casper Cartoon show also ppeared, Spooky, Poil and even Nightmare, the horse. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.60.19.222 (talk) 22:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Transparency?

"Although scholars have debated the subject for the good part of the last century, the general consensus among experts is that Casper should be categorized as "semi-transparent", due to the fact that his opacity varies with factors such as his emotions and surroundings. Although many notable researches (see Robert Herchenston) have argued that this title is a misnomer, little evidence exists to support the completely opaque and completely transparent hypotheses, while the amount of data that suggests semi-transparency has been steadily increasing for the last 10 years."

Okay, WTF? 200.121.134.127 06:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

I suspect it's vandalism. A lot of vandalism has come from that IP block (you should see how full their talk page is.) I'm removing that section. If anyone feels this in error, I encourage him or her to please politely object. Iain marcuson 04:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Casper in Stereotoon, "Boo Moon"

Perhaps someone can begin a topic on Casper's page regarding his appearence in a 3-D "stereotoon" by Paramount around 1953 called "Boo Moon", as reported at the web page: Paramount- Original Titles —Preceding unsigned comment added by Photoactivist (talk • contribs) 06:09, 13 September 2007 (UTC)