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The End of Gravity!!

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost

First Line: The whole world is falling up... in one of the strangest Casper adventures of all... The End of Gravity!!

Synopsis: Casper, and other persons and things fall up, away from the Earth.

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Pages: 1

Notes: New cover illustrating a reprinted interior story.

The House that was a Spaceship

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; Aunt Naggie; mission control crew; Saturnians

First Line: Casper's always fussing around the house!

Synopsis: Casper's Aunt Naggie, an ornery old spinster neat freak of a ghost, comes to visit, prompting The Ghostly Trio to get out while the ghostly getting is good. Nothing seems to please Aunt Naggie, who refuses to stay in Casper and the Trio's house calling it a dump. She finds fault with any other accommodation Casper presents to her, deciding to stay in a neat, new "lighthouse" she saw on the way over - which is, in reality, an unmanned rocket set to probe the planet Saturn. Casper and Aunt Naggie blast off, as the Saturnians eagerly anticipate the approaching spacecraft.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Part 1 of 2.

A rare instance of a two-part Casper lead story, rather than the usual three-parters.

Ghostly Relations

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Aunt Naggie; mission control crew; Saturnians

First Line: Saturn! That's where we're heading, Aunt Naggie!

Synopsis: Monitoring Casper and Aunt Naggie's unintentional flight, the Saturnians eagerly await the arrival of Earthmen, but neither the travelers nor their hosts turn out to be what was expected.

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Pages: 5

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A rare instance of a two-part Casper lead story, rather than the usual three-parters.

GOOD BIT:
Aunt Naggie is nothing if not a dedicated neat freak, as seen in her reaction to the ghosts' accidental destination:

CASPER: "SATURN! That's where we're heading, Aunt Naggie!"
AUNT NAGGIE: "That RING looks messy!"

The End of Gravity

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Wendy the Good Little Witch; The Witch Sisters [Velma; Zelma; Thelma]; Joe (guy falling-up); Gus (guy falling-up); various town citizens falling-up; various Enchanted Forest citizens and animals falling-up; Beelo; General; Beelo's people (soldiers); Lieutenant Fub

First Line: Wow! What's going on?

Synopsis: When gravity stops working, and people and things suddenly start "falling-up", Casper discovers that it's because a little boy named Beelo has escaped from his world and his people are searching for him. Casper agrees to help him.

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Pages: 5

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In an uncharacteristic moment of "depth" and ambiguity, Casper wonders if he is doing the right thing by helping Beelo and not returning him to his people.

CASPER (thinking) 1: "They must have a machine [at their disposal] that STOPS GRAVITY! If I return Beelo to them, they might TURN OFF that machine!

CASPER (thinking) 2: "But Beelo TRUSTS me! How can I betray him?"

Not something you'd see every day from an unquestioningly positive character like Casper.

Beelo is Captured

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; Beelo; General; Beelo's people (soldiers); Lieutenant Fub; ogre-like monster; multi-armed no-legged monster; giant fly swatter monster

First Line: Hurry, Beelo! They're carrying off all the houses 'cause they think you're in one of them!

Synopsis: While on the run, Casper gives Beelo a taste of our world, highlighted by a visit to an empty amusement park - empty because all the people are floating high and weightlessly. At the park Beelo is captured by his people to be returned home and, when Casper follows, he discovers that Beelo's world is below the surface of the earth. In a subterranean passage, he encounters some very strange monsters.

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Pages: 5

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Beelo's World

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Casper the Friendly Ghost; giant fly swatter monster; Beelo; guards; King; Prime Minister; Wendy the Good Little Witch; The Witch Sisters [Velma; Zelma; Thelma]; various citizens returning to earth; amusement park patrons

First Line: Yeow!

Synopsis: Escaping the giant fly swatter monster and avoiding a number of subterranean traps, Casper locates Beelo in the underground kingdom of his people, the Gravitonians, a race of small, green-skinned people that can control gravity. The pair escape, but Beelo is recaptured. Casper finds Beelo's father, the king of Gravitonia, and convinces him to let Beelo visit the upper world for an annual vacation in exchange for restoring gravity. Eventually, Casper, Beelo, and the King visit the again empty amusement park. The people are back on the ground but have fled the park at the sight of Casper.

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Pages: 5

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The Invaders

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost; three other ghosts; E-Z Shop Supermarket complaint manager

First Line: Wow! It's got to be an oithquake!

Synopsis: Spooky wakes one day to find that a new E-Z Shop Supermarket is being built on the site of his haunted house. Traveling to the E-Z Shop corporate headquarters, he gets the business from the manager of the complaint department, who is unfazed by ghosts.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Part 1 of 2.

A rare instance of a two-part Spooky backup story, rather than the stand-alone five-pagers.

They Couldn't Be Stopped, But...

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Genres: fantasy, humorous

Character(s): Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost; E-Z Shop Supermarket president's secretary; E-Z Shop Supermarket president; various E-Z Shop Supermarket employees; shopping mom

First Line: What d'you know... He's out as cold as ice!

Synopsis: Spooky escalates his grievance to the president of E-Z Shop Supermarkets, who is equally unfazed by ghosts.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Part 2 of 2.

A rare instance of a two-part Spooky backup story, rather than the stand-alone five-pagers.