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Comics sure are something.
—by Marv Wolfman, Marie Severin and John Costanza, 1974
—ghost-penciled by Casper’s own Ernie Colon.
Wow! It does look like Colon, but he drew off-model just enough for satirical purposes. It also looks like he was trying to hide his own style by drawing just a bit worse.
Could be Ernie drew it straight-up Casper, and Marie made it off-model in the inks. It'd have gone faster for him that way, at least...
The only thing i ever liked in CRAZY
I'm curious how you know it was ghost-penciled by Colon. It makes sense because he did draw for Crazy at the time. I can't find any info online.
I was told it by @evanier.bsky.social , who presumably got it from one or more of the creators.
Holy crap, man. That is dark.
The dark truth. This is a Watchmenesque deconstruction of Casper.
WATCHMEN, hah! Those Rorschach-come-latelies…
We've found patient zero for the grim and gritty Bronze Age.
Maybe Fredric Wertham was right.
Eerily similar to the only comic I’ve ever drawn (which was a guest strip for a friend’s old webcomic):
My jaw actually dropped at that third page.
That was jaw-droppingly dark. Wow.
Holy Krap!….thats amazing
It’s nice to know that artist back then were perfectly deranged as well
The lore goes haaaaard
Right I mean it’s dark as fuck but good lore!
Wow! Ugh! Somehow I didn't find that particularly funny.
Wow, that's basically Jay Stephens' Dwellings, 40 years earlier. I wonder if he's ever seen it?
As a kid, I always assumed the three adult ghosts were his killers, who killed each other in a ransom money argument, after killing him, and are cursed to be trapped with him there forever.
When I read this I thought, that's ALL?
I thought the Simpsons' joke about Casper being Richie Rich's ghost was dark. Wow.
I love this, Severin really nails the Casper style
