Jam Handy’s “Down The Gasoline Trail” (1936)ĭevising the idea for the character and the latter providing illustrations. In spite of this, he is apparently still able to move through solid objects without leaving this behind, so he may be able to extend his ability to move through things to other objects.Ĭasper was created in the late Born Apby Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, the former
This implies that he is naturally invisible and puts this on so that he can be seen and interact with others. He becomes visible by putting on something like a white cloth that people traditionally use to masquerade as ghosts. He uses physical makeup in a Harveytoons show where Casper takes care of a pair of kittens, it opens with seeing (or not seeing) him scrubbing himself off in the shower, completely invisible. In the Casper live movie, this is not shown and it is implied that he is naturally visible to humans as a white creature. Originally, stories have shown that his visibility is due to wearing a sheet. In the original Harveytoons animation, Casper has been seen standing next to a grave inscribed with "Casper", that supports the theory he is indeed a ghost. The first direct-to-video film to follow the feature, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, showed Casper's early days as a ghost, not showing how he died and ignoring the story provided in the previous film. According to the film, Casper died from pneumonia. The 1995 feature film Casper, however, revived the notion that Casper was a deceased human and provided a brief account of his death. In the 1960s and 1970s, the stock answer provided by Harvey Comics in response to those wondering how Casper died was that he was a ghost simply because his parents were already ghosts when they were married. He was thereafter portrayed with feet and shown to have ghostly parents & became slightly slimmer.
This somewhat macabre premise was later abandoned in favor of the idea that ghosts were merely a type of creature, similar to ghouls, goblins, etc. Casper's death (as well as the reason why he became friendly) has become disputed since then. Specifically, the short There's Good Boos To-Night featured Ferdie, a fox befriended by Casper, coming back from the dead as a ghost. Early Casper cartoons seemed to suggest this, as they portrayed him "living" beside a gravestone. Given that Casper is depicted as a ghostly slightly obese little boy, there is a controversy among fans of the series about whether or not he is a dead child. According to the 1995 feature film Casper, he died when contracted pneumonia from playing out in the cold for too long, but so far, that's the only version there is. Not much is known about how Casper came to be a ghost, or how he did end up with the Ghostly Trio.
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