Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	August 1972
Cover Price	0.25
Pages	52
Editing	Leon Harvey

Cover Details - "Friendly Ghost Makes Moonshot"

Characters	Casper; Spooky; Wendy; Nightmare; The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
Genre	children; occult

5 page The Friendly Ghost Casper story "The U.F.O."

Characters	Casper; The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
Synopsis	When the swamp creatures take a flying saucer on a joy ride, Casper is there to save them from the air force.
Genre	children; occult

1 page Casper The Friendly Ghost story "Our sun is a star just like that, Wendy!"

Characters	Casper; Wendy
Genre	gags

1 page The Tuff Little Ghost Spooky story "Star light star bright, Foist star I see tonight..."

Characters	Spooky; Pearl
Genre	gags

5 page The Friendly Ghost Casper story "Trip To The Moon! Part 1"

Characters	Casper; Wendy; The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]; Spooky; Nightmare
Synopsis	When Casper's image is chosen to be stencilled onto the next space mission to the moon, a jealous Spooky and the Ghostly Trio try to stow away on the rocket.
Genre	children; occult

1 page Casper's Myths text story "Casper's Myths: Hercules And The Apples"

Characters	Casper; Wendy; Hercules
Letters	typeset
Notes	Text story with accompanying illustrations.

Half page Casper The Friendly Ghost promo (ad from the publisher) "I love reading about Casper, in his Harvey Comics magazine!"

Characters	Casper
Synopsis	Ad in comic strip form for Casper Comics.

Half page Casper The Friendly Ghost promo (ad from the publisher) "I can't believe it"

Characters	Casper
Synopsis	Ad in comic strip form for the Casper TV show.

5 page The Friendly Ghost Casper story "Trip To The Moon - Part 2 Can It Be Moon Life?"

Characters	Casper; Lem
Synopsis	Casper arrives on the moon with the astronauts to find that a previously abandoned lunar lander has come to life.
Genre	children; occult

2 page Nightmare story "Oh... This is too complicated for me!"

Characters	Nightmare
Synopsis	Nightmare jumps over the moon.
Genre	children; occult

2 page The Ghostly Trio story "So Casper went to the moon! Big deal!"

Characters	The Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
Genre	gags

5 page The Friendly Ghost Casper story "Trip To the Moon - Part 3 Racing On The Moon!"

Characters	Casper; Lem; Rover
Synopsis	Casper foiled the living lunar module's plans for destroying the visiting astronauts current lander.
Genre	children; occult

1 page Casper The Friendly Ghost story "I think he's comin'! I Think he's comin'!"

Characters	Casper
Genre	gags

1 page The Friendly Ghost Casper story "I love to study the stars up here. Cloudy!"

Characters	Casper; Cloudy; Stuffy
Genre	gags
Colors	/

5 page The Tuff Little Ghost Spooky story "The Woild's biggest Boo-Boo!"

Characters	Spooky; Pearl
Synopsis	Spooky grows to a tremendous size when he passes through a telescope.
Genre	children; occult

2 page The Good Little Witch Wendy story "Did Casper really go to the moon, Wendy?"

Characters	Wendy; Casper
Genre	gags

4 page Wendy The Good Little Witch story "Moon Dust"

Characters	Wendy; Aunt Velma; Aunt Thelma; Aunt Zelma; Casper
Synopsis	When Wendy keeps talking about how Casper went to the moon, her aunts try to send her there.
Genre	children; occult