(March 1962)
Harvey,
1958 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-12-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Casper / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee, I feel like resting!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Casper; Larry
- Synopsis
- When a boy sees Casper sitting on thin air, Casper tries to make him think he can do it too.
Progress Is Wonderful
Casper / comic story / 5 pages
- Characters
- Casper; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; Helpful Wizard; Barry the Broom Grower; Keeper of the Keys; Hungry Bear
- Synopsis
- After talking to himself about how everything should improve, Casper goes out into the forest and finds that nobody has to work anymore because whatever they need grows by itself.
- Reprints
-
in TV Casper & Co. (Harvey, 1963 series) #26 (April 1970) - in Casper the Friendly Ghost (Harvey, 1991 series) #13 (July 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues in "Too Much Is Too Much!"
[no title indexed]
Nightmare / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll look for a comfy cloud to take a nap on!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Nightmare
- Synopsis
- Nightmare finds a place to take a nap.
Too Much Is Too Much!
Casper / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Casper; Mother Nature; Helpful Wizard; Hungry Bear; Keeper of the Keys; Barry the Broom Grower
- Synopsis
- Casper learns that the changes in the forest are due to the Helpful Wizard, who had heard Casper talking about improvement. But after checking back in with the forest folk, he finds that improvement isn't necessarily a good thing.
- Reprints
- in TV Casper & Co. (Harvey, 1963 series) #26 (April 1970)
- in Casper the Friendly Ghost (Harvey, 1991 series) #13 (July 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "Progress Is Wonderful"
Story continues in "The Wizard Learns."
The Wizard Learns
Casper / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Casper; Helpful Wizard; Keeper of the Keys; Hungry Bear; Barry the Broom Grower; Mother Nature; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
- Synopsis
- Casper convinces the Helpful Wizard to put things back the way they were.
- Reprints
- in TV Casper & Co. (Harvey, 1963 series) #26 (April 1970)
- in Casper the Friendly Ghost (Harvey, 1991 series) #13 (July 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from "Too Much Is Too Much!"
Trouble with Peter!
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Pat White; Peter White; Mrs. White
- Synopsis
- Twins Pat and Peter try to put one over on their mother.
- Reprints
- from Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #43 (June 1954)
- in Little Dot Dotland (Harvey, 1962 series) #32 (September 1967)
-
The Vain Weathervane
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Wilfred; East Wind; North Wind; West Wind; South Wind
- Synopsis
- The winds get together to teach the vain weathervane a lesson.
- Reprints
- from Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #41 (April 1954)
- in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #80 (September 1974)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Casper -
1.
["Gee, I feel like resting!"]
Casper -
2.
Progress Is Wonderful
Casper -
3.
["I'll look for a comfy cloud to take a nap on!"]
Nightmare -
4.
Too Much Is Too Much!
Casper -
5.
The Wizard Learns
Casper -
6.
Trouble with Peter!
-
7.
The Vain Weathervane
-
8.
Big Appetite Land
Spooky
This issue was modified by, among others
- Joey Beretta
- Steve Coates
- Jean-Francois Masse
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