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Issue: The Friendly Ghost, Casper #81
Publication Date: May 1965
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Issues: #81 of 227 Issues (231 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/15/1965
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Migration Delay

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; flock of migrating birds
Synopsis: One of a flock of migrating birds flies into Casper.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover illustrates the story on page one.
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Easier In Than Out!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; flock of migrating birds; Wilma Witch
First Line: I can't get out!
Synopsis: One of a flock of migrating birds flies into Casper and gets stuck within his ghostly form, until scared out by a witch.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Expanded version of the issue's cover gag.
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Casper and Prince Chickenheart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; Mr. Stormcloud; Wendy the Good Little Witch; Prince Chickenheart; King; Duke of Glook
First Line: Why can't we have peace and quiet instead of all this hullabaloo-boo?
Synopsis: Casper starts reading the Ghostly Trio a story about Prince Chickenheart; when a storm destroys the book, Casper takes the one surviving page to Wendy, who casts a spell so that she and Casper can enter the story and find out how it ends.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Part 1 of 3.
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The No-Scare Throat Care

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; various woodland animals
First Line: Boo! Haw haw ha!
Synopsis: The Ghostly Trio read a newspaper article about famous singers resting their throats "so they can sing better" and apply that advice to their booing. While doing so, the Trio try to find non-vocal ways to scare the woodland animals.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The newspaper article that Fatso reads has a "picture" (drawing, actually) of Frank Sinatra to illustrate the piece.
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All at Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Wendy the Good Little Witch; Prince Chickenheart; Mr. Sea Serpent
First Line: You mean I just stand here and steer the ship?
Synopsis: Casper, Wendy, and Prince Chickenheart set sail for Treasure Isle to find a buried treasure.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of 3.
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Treasure Isle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Wendy the Good Little Witch; Prince Chickenheart; King; Duke of Glook
First Line: We can't land here! Those waves will pound us to pieces!
Synopsis: With Casper and Wendy's help, Prince Chickenheart finds the treasure and takes it back to his father.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of 3.
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The Missing Shadow

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Peter P. Peters; Spooky; Fatso
First Line: Casper was floating along over the road to Spookville when he heard weeping and sobbing coming from somewhere nearby.
Synopsis: Casper gets a little boy's shadow back from Fatso, who had stolen it.
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Pages: 1.5
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Cousin Faintleroy

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Cousin Faintleroy; Butch (bully); other nameless bully; nameless witch
First Line: It'll take more than a few silly signs to keep me out!
Synopsis: Spooky teaches his timid cousin Faintleroy how to scare.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Spooky's cousin Faintleroy looks like a ghost-version of Richie Rich, wearing the exact same outfit but with blonde locks of hair.

Cousin Faintleroy's name is a play on "Little Lord Fauntleroy".

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