(May 1963)
Harvey,
1958 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-02-15
- 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 (credited); Sid Jacobson (actual)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Casper the Friendly Ghost / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy... a kangaroo and her baby!
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Casper
- Synopsis
- Casper helps a baby kangaroo when it falls out of its mother's pouch.
- Reprints
-
in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #57 (November 1970)
-
- Keywords
- kangaroos
The House That Wanted to Be a Castle [Part One]
Casper the Friendly Ghost / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Casper; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Stinky; Stretch]; Wendy; Witch Sisters [Thelma; Velma; Zelma]
- Synopsis
- The house where Wendy and her aunts live decides to run away, and Casper helps Wendy look for it.
- Reprints
- in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #57 (November 1970)
-
- Keywords
- rain
[no title indexed]
The Ghostly Trio / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I have an idea! Let's not stay in a bunch like this!
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Stretch; Stinky]
- Synopsis
- The ghosts decide to split up so that they can scare people three times instead of just one, but when they try to scare some soldiers the men come back at them with a tank.
- Reprints
- in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #57 (November 1970)
-
- Keywords
- soldiers; tanks
The Ogre of Magic Mountain [Part Two]
Casper the Friendly Ghost / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Casper; Wendy
- Synopsis
- Casper and Wendy catch up to Wendy's house at Magic Mountain, but the house refuses to come home. Wendy has to use her magic to stop the mountain's ogre, who wants to keep the house for himself.
- Reprints
- in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #57 (November 1970)
-
- Keywords
- ogres
Everyone Loves the Fabulous Sad Sack and His Funny Friends
Sad Sack / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
All at Sea [Part Three]
Casper the Friendly Ghost / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Casper; Wendy
- Synopsis
- Wendy's house begins drifting out to sea, where a whale mistakes it for a box of food, but Casper and Wendy save it and finally convince it to come back where it belongs.
- Reprints
- in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #57 (November 1970)
-
- Keywords
- whales
The Terrible Tiger
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tony Tiger; Chester Chipmunk; Leo Lion; Ernest Elephant; Squeaky Squirrel; Monroe Monkey
- Synopsis
- When the other jungle animals try to figure out how to deal with Tony the ferocious tiger, Monroe the monkey suggests making friends with him.
- Reprints
- from Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #46 (October 1954)
-
The Big Fight
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Alley Cats; Home Cats
- Synopsis
- Cecil has to fight the incredibly large Powerhouse Pete. He's losing, but when someone mentions that Powerhouse Pete is really a mountain lion, Cecil defeats him anyway.
- Reprints
- from Spooky (Harvey, 1955 series) #6 (September 1956)
-
The Big Apple
Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Spooky; Pearl
- Synopsis
- Spooky manages to get a giant apple from an ogre's orchard so he can give it to Pearl, who has told him she prefers that he give her fruit instead of candy.
- Reprints
- in Casper's Ghostland (Harvey, 1959 series) #57 (November 1970)
-
- Keywords
- apples; ogres; orchards
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Casper -
1.
["Oh, boy... a kangaroo and her baby!"]
Casper the Friendly Ghost -
2.
The House That Wanted to Be a Castle [Part One]
Casper the Friendly Ghost -
3.
["I have an idea! Let's not stay in a bunch like this!"]
The Ghostly Trio -
4.
The Ogre of Magic Mountain [Part Two]
Casper the Friendly Ghost -
5.
Meet... Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff -
6.
Everyone Loves the Fabulous Sad Sack and His Funny Friends
Sad Sack -
7.
All at Sea [Part Three]
Casper the Friendly Ghost -
8.
The Terrible Tiger
-
9.
The Big Fight
-
10.
The Big Apple
Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
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