![]() ![]() 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, although it does explain how he became friendly. According to the film, Casper was sledding in the snow and stayed out for too long, dying of pneumonia at the age of eleven. 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 supernatural being, similar to ghouls, goblins, etc. Casper's death (as well as the reason why he became friendly) have been disputed since that time. 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, portly little boy, there is a controversy among fans of the series about whether or not he is a dead child. ![]() 2.2 Harvey Comics, television, and films. ![]()
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