Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Complete Collection (1945-1963)

I've never seen the Casper the friendly ghost cartoons before. I haven't existed yet when it showed. The most that I've seen was a few seconds of one episode where Wendy used her wand when I was three or four years old and at a barber's place when me and my dad was waiting for a chair by the table where the magazines were and among them was one or two Casper comics where I saw a drawing of Casper in stipple lines as an indication of him being invisible, also when I was about four to six years old and that's all. You can't compare Marvel and DC's superhero comics and cartoons with these cartoons and comics. These cartoons and comics have no violence of anykind and sci-fi stuff like the existence of superpowers and creations of monsters with superpowers and a single big superhero with some kind of secret identity and a ridiculous costume that suddenly appears out of nowhere and comes to the rescue for all the people in an entire city. These Casper shows and books are like all the Disney shorts and Tom and Jerry shorts. It's for all to enjoy. Those were the cartoons that was made by professionals who knew where the line was drawn and none of them even thought once of coming up with those violent above and beyond natural possibilities. I ordered the complete collection of 1945-1963 and I enjoyed them all very much. I'm 33 and I never get tired of such cartoon shows nomatter how many times I watch them. I'll always watch these shows because I enjoy and love them. This is a true 100% 5 star must have product.

Casper the Friendly Ghost was always one of my favorites (along with Ritchie Rich) when I was just a kid.However - I had never seen his first Toon - his origin story if you will!It's actually quite cute! I have watched about 75% of this with the picture being pristine and the sound nearly so. It's interesting to watch his personality develop over more than 75 years. He was developed as a character in a book (a 1939 children's storybook). His first Toon was in 1946 in The Friendly Ghost. In 1945 he made his first appearance in a comic strip and then in 1949 in Harvey Comics. Harvey Comics bought the rights in 1949 and he became of their biggest 'stars'. Then in 1995 he stared in Casper - his first 'live' action film - where he learns his last name is McFadden (although this is disputed by some people). It's never made entirely clear if he was a young child who died or never born.Picture was great as was the sound!!I would rate this collection very high 9.25 to 9.75 as it has essentially all of his Toons (that I know of anyways). If you Casper the Friendly Ghost of old Toons in general this is for you!!VERY Highly recommended!!

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Absolutely an amazing box set for a classic cartoon character, however, shout! Factory really knows how to make a good DVD box set. There one of the best out there for dads. So its kind of expected of them. The colors of the cartoons are as good as they can be considering there age. Definitely recommend to any animation collector or fan of casper.

Review Date: 10-3-2022The original 'Restored' (could be a bit better?) Don't even roll credits that the end.The parts 'With Commentary' Aren't always relative to That exact video.The Bonus documentary gets me the Most; Someone Talking about the Creators of Casper - and they Don't always even Show a still photo of that person - or the buildings etc. where the magic happened.Actress talks about how her Mom was the Voice of Casper, Gumby and 'Davy' of Goliath - and I Don't recall even a Photo of this lady - or any video-interview with her.I just see - that More could have been done here. - Oh -and - the Bonus of Comic book photos - some are Cropped and/or the cover is 'Rolled' and I Can't see the entire thing. (was this finished on a Late Friday afternoon??!)Scott M.

I am 64 years old and absolutely loved seeing Casper again ... he was one of my favorite cartoons as a child, and it was fun to see again what I enjoyed so much as a child. I bought the three-disk set and preferred #'s 1 & 2 because they were the original cartoons. Disk #3 is of the newer Casper and Friends. But, my 3 year old grandson said he really enjoyed Disk 3, as well as 1 & 2. We have watched them over and over again, and both sing the theme song a lot.

What can I say great series

Just LOVE Casper! We are watching these as "Saturday morning cartoons" again, in our house. I am nearly 60 and hubby is a few yrs. older and we are feeling like young kiddos again! It is also fun to watch the ones that came out before our time! We had bought some Casper videos recently and they were "new" ... we wanted the old Casper! Was happy to find this compilations of so many yrs.

Casper is timeless. A joy to watch today, in the 21st century, as it was when I first watched them in the 60's.

I received the package in excellent condition and passed it on to my daughter so that she could show it to my grandson. From what I heard, they totally enjoyed viewing the episodes. Highly recommendable for toddlers and young viewers fror those who like cute cartoons!

I always liked the Casper and friends show on Saturday mornings so it was really exciting to see the DVD release of all his classic cartoons. On this DVD set you see the following episodes:Disk #1: The Friendly Ghost, There's good boos to-night, A haunting we will go, Spree under the sea, Once upon a rhyme, Boo Hoo Baby, To Boo or not to Boo, Boo Scout, Casper comes to clown, Casper takes a Bow-Wow, Deep Boo sea, Ghost of the Town, Spunky Skunky, Cage Fright, Pig-A-Boo, True boo, Frightday the 13th, Spook no evil, North Pal, By the old Mill Scream, Little Boo peep, Do or Diet, Boos and Saddles, Boo Moon, Zero the hero, Casper Genie, Puss N' BoosDisk #2: Boos andArrows, Boo Ribbon Winnder, Hide and Shriek, Keep Your Grin up, Spooking with a brogue, Bull fright, Red, White and boo, Boo kind to animals, Ground hog play, Dutch treat, Penguin for your throughts, Line of screamage, Fright from Wrong, Spooking about Africa, Hooky Spooky, Peekaboo, Ghost of Honor, Ice Scream, Boo Bop, Heir Restorer, Spook and Span, Ghost Writers, Which is Witch?, Good scream fun, Doing what's fright, Down to mirth, Not ghoulty, Casper's Birthday PartyDisk #3: A visit from Mars, The ABsent-minded robot, Growing up, Small Spooks, The flying Horse (aka: The enchanted Horse), Little lost ghost, Double trouble (aka: Twin trouble), Cold Wave (aka: The invaders), The Wanderer (aka: Wandering ghost), Red Robbing Hood, The bored billionaire, Heart of Gold (aka: the golden touch), Wendy's wish, the Timid Knight, City Snicker, The Professor's Problem, The Greedy Giants, The Enchanted Prince, The magic touch, The witching hour, Bedtime troubles, Weather or not, Kings of Toyland, Mother Goose land, Lonesome giant, Super spook

Love Casper. Enjoyed the older original cartoons on discs 1 and 2 much better than the newer Casper show episodes on disc 3.