Casper’s Ghostland #96

In honor of Halloween here’s a terrifying ghost named Casper. This is issue #96 of Casper’s Ghostland (and all his friends) from 1977. Harvey Comics is sort of the Hanna-Barbera of comic books, as in cheap and not very good. Casper rides a “sky board” on the cover, floating above an unnamed child on a skateboard in case you don’t get the joke. It’s good thing the motion lines and puffs are coming from his leg and not his rear end. Can ghosts fart?

I have tricked you in to clicking through, as the cover is the only skateboard featured in this issue of Casper’s Ghostland, however there is an ad for the Olympic Sales Club that does have a skateboard you can earn.

Here’s an ad for the Olympic Sales Club,

A 26″ California Skateboard could have been yours for only 14 boxes of whatever it is they sold boxes of, I guess “cards and notes.” I wonder if they would actually send these items to kids. Seems more likely that they would just get the cash equivalent.