Casper the Friendly Ghost is celebrating 60th years. Everyone's favority friendly ghost first appeared in comics way back in 1949 and has since appeared in cartoons, animated features and two live action movies (the first staring Christia Ricci and Bill Pullman.) Dark Horse comics is already set to reprint the vintage comics staring Casper and Arden Media will be publishing a new regular Casper series written by Todd Dezago and art by Pedro Delgado starting in October. According to reports the new comic series will be set in New York in an area populated by ghosts.
Classic Media plans to start an animated series titled "Casper's Scare School." This is reportedly based on the 2006 computer animated movie aired on Cartoon Network. The over all plot is about Casper being friendly with a boy named Jimmy causing Kibosh: The King of the Underworld to enroll the friendly ghost into a Scare School headed by the two-headed headmaster Alder and Dash. In the school Casper befriends Ra, a mummy with unraveling issues and Mantha, a zombie girl who keeps falling apart. When Casper discovers the two-headed headmaster's plot to use a petrification potion to turn Kibosh into stone and take over the Underworld and Deedstown, he and his new friends must stop him.
The actual rights to Casper are now once again controlled by Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman, who bought the company back from the acquirers when it got into difficulties earlier this year.
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