March 12, 2009

Kaspar, The Dead Baby

From Crazy #8 (Dec. 1974), a parody of Casper The Friendly Ghost that disturbed (and amused) me greatly when I was a 7 year old. Thanks a lot, Marv Wolfman and Marie Severin!








9 comments:

Booksteve said...

This was THE most memorable thing from CRAZY in my opinion.

Rockin' Ed said...

CRAZY was way funnier than MAD or CRACKED!!!

Anonymous said...

I know I read this in Crazy, but my experience in seeing it had to be later, possibly in a best-of re-issue, though still in the 70's. I think this satire of Casper may be my earliest remembered scarred-for-life moment.

nano247 said...

thank you, now I know why my mom took this away from me when I was a kid

kirkinsf said...

Winner of Best Humor Story at the 1974 Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards. Thanks for posting so I didn't have to track down a copy of Crazy #8.

Anonymous said...

Same here. I mostly just remembered the title and Mom being mad.

Urvy1A said...

Didn't know that this was Marv Wolfman's earliest Marvel pieces before creating Blade.

Anonymous said...

Bought it off the stand, I was 13. Good thing Basil Woverton and Wally Wood already warped me for life...

M. Mitchell Marmel said...

Huge laughs from this and fond memories of Crazy from my late childhood... :)