Casper the Friendly Ghost hit the silver screen in Izzy Sparber's 1945 cartoon of the same name (aka The Friendly Ghost), based upon the book by Joseph Oriolo and Seymour Reit. See the well-intentioned spook in his debut plus four more adventures, including Sparber's 1948 followup There's Good Boos To-Night, and three films directed by Seymour Kneitel. Scary doings continue with Popeye in Kneitel's Fright to the Finish, as Bluto "horrorizes" Olive on Halloween; then, in Sparber's I Don't Scare, Bluto plays on her "stupid-stitions." Felix the Cat learns that even Bold King Cole fears ghosts, while in Max Fleischer's Is My Palm Read (aka Professor Bimbo) , Betty Boop and her hero, Bimbo, meet more spirits.
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