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The flight membrane (natural or acquired) reminds me of one of my OCs in my use of Harvey's re-copyrighted characters.
HotStuff never had a girlfriend in his stories and only infrequently crossed-over with the ghosts and witches. I gather he could fly, and teleport, but whether his pitch-fork enabled him to fly I don't know. I added a girlfriend, Habbytrotter, who had flight membranes like shown above.
I added that when HotStuff first came to earth, it was his intent to DESTROY it, but Casper won him over to his side.
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I actually did read most of that Harvey comics stuff -- Casper was the least interesting of the bunch, except for maybe "Dot". (Did you read "Little Lotta" as well?) Of the various related comics, "Sooky" and "Hot Stuff" were probably the most readable because the characters weren't motivated only by a simplisitc desire to "do good."
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You guessed one problem I had with Casper: trying to make him interesting despite his lack of a dark side. He has actually bored his comrades with explanations of what he was attempting to do. His parallel universe counterpart, Ripsack or Evil Casper, was totally the opposite! So was Evil Wendy or Idnew. I'm afraid I went hogwild with Daymare, making him more like the Cronenberg THING !
I have 2 parts of a potential story explaining why Spooky doesn't BOO as much as he used to, and how that leads to him marrying Poil. Looks like he learned his lesson, finally...
Oddly, the human characters (Richie Rich, Little Audrey, Little Dot, Little Lotta, and Stumbo(?) (depends on whether those people he helps are 1 inch tall or whether he's 1000 ft. tall !) aren't of interest to me... I also never even heard of Jackie Jokers until recently. His comic failed and he was saved from oblivion only by teaming him up with Richie Rich (oddly in those stories, Casper is referred to as a fictional character !).
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Ah, yes... Stumbo. I forgot about him until you mentioned it.
Jackie Joker must be a more recent character. The last Harvey comic I read was probably in 1969... although I have a couple of issues, almost that old, that were given to me in the last ten years.
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Just checked: Jackie Jokers was from 1973 on.His series failed and the first few issues of RR&JJ (Richie Rich & Jackie Jokers) had separate JJ stories already written & drawn but meant for JJ's failed series. Then he and RR teamed up, often for movie parodies. He was done more realistic looking, like a sketch of a celebrity. He & his father were entertainers and many stories involved him getting a gig or performing in one.
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I rememver there was some horrible Richie Rich imitation a few years ago. Milton Millons? I really can't remember anything but thinking it was the last thing anyone in the world needed. Richie was one of Harvey's poorer characters, for all that he seemed popular and lasted for decades. Wow. A rich kid who's so rich and so nice he can give his friends platinum plated bicycles. Does it never occur to kids reading the book that its easy to be nice if you're loaded?
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Curiously, in my huge fan-fic, Mr. Rich senior loses all his wealth, thanks to Wendy's father manipulating the stock market and in other ways taking over the whole world ! Mr. Rich winds up selling newspapers, controlled by Wendy's father of course. Then, thanks to Dr. Keenbean, becomes a real SuperRichie while Cadbury becomes Cadmium !(CrashMan with a super-uniform).
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Royal Rob, or something more like that, with "Royal" definitely part of the name.
Years ago, I met through Mike Curtis an elderly gentleman who had spend most of this time drawing for Richie Rich. At the time, Mike was trying to acquire the rights to old Harvey books, and I might have had a career doing covers for Caspar or Richie. But the family either wouldn't see or wanted far too much money. I believe the old gentleman died a couple of years later.
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I think you're referring to Royal Roy, a Marvel Star comic about a young prince. Harvey sued, claiming that R.R.'s face was obviously Richie Rich's. I think Planet Terry folded for the same reason. By the way, the Star line failed.
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That's it -- Royal Roy. The art was remarkably similar to Harvy's character as well. I had forgotten that it wasn't a Harvy creation. I think it might have been created by an ex-Harvey artist, though.
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Yes, both "Royal Roy" and "Planet Terry" were drawn by former Harvey staff. The former, in fact, was practically a clone of Richie Rich, his girlfriends, etc., and so Harvey sued. Royal Roy ran 6 issues. Planet Terry ran 12,but left the story unresolved, tho there was even a hint that Marvel's mainstream continuity would eventually get involved. Never got to that stage...
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I even did a scene early in my huge fan-fic, where Casper & Spooky are prowling around the Riches' mansion.Spooky voices the idea of stealing all of the Riches' money and dividing it among the poor ! "Everybody'll be rich !"
Casper did some quick calculating (maybe his head turns into an adding machine, spitting out the answer on paper) and fishes out a nickel from a drawer and gives it to a puzzled Spooky. "That's your share ! Everybody on earth would get a nickel !". Spooky lost his temper at that.
I always saw the rich as having gotten rich by stamping on the poor all their lives !
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Depends on the rich. Most just inherit it from their fathers, grandfathers, or great-grandfathers, and either add to the family fortune (easily done when you start out with one), or fritter it away (which usually takes real work). A small subset of the rich actually create their own wealth, and they're almost always guilty of questionable practices -- if not outright theft, cheating, lying, intimidation, fixing, murder, criminal neglegence, slave holding, etc. A small number actually do nothing wrong at all, and just happen to be in the right place and the right time that, with work, they make a fortune.
Bill Gates seems to fall between that category and the questionable practices type. Some of his early career involves some very ethically dubious moves like contracting to deliver a product he didn't have, couldn't make, and hoped to buy cheaply from someone else.
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Rocky, for all her power & courage, should stay well clear of Splendid. Splendid has the unfortunant tendency to KILL those he rescues: He flew so fast with one rescuee that he failed to see a branch in time. The branch missed him, but decapitated the kid he had just rescued !
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I would imagine it won't be hard to avoid being rescued by Splendid. I've never heard of Splendid. That makes it difficult for me to write anything in which Rocky would need to be resuced by him.
Clumsy heroes seem to be popular. The Tick comes to mind. Hancock was sort of like that, though more because he didn't care than because he was clumsy. People have been spoofing superheroes at least since Mad did it in the late 50's.
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Splendid, like Rocky, is a flying squirrel, but also has heat vision and other Superman powers. He is the resident super-hero of Happy Tree, a town which you would NOT like to visit.
The cartoons generally involve everybody getting killed and in many ingenious bloody ways (the red ink gets used a LOT). Even a stroll down to the ice cream parlor or a field trip to the zoo result in bloodshed and body parts everywhere. The same characters get killed over & over.
Bullwinkle, is admitedly ,a dim bulb ,but alongside Lumpy the moose, he's Einstein. Lumpy seldom dies (lobotomized in a car accident in one film, head pulled off by a winch in another) but causes many deaths by his blundering and clumsiness. Same for Splendid and Flippy (has an ultra-violent alternate personality that tries to KILL everybody he sees.He goes on a rampage and leaves everybody else a butchered mess before he reverts to his normal self and has no memory of killing and mutilating all these people !)
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I've seen a little of Happy Tree Friends. "Little" is enough. One or two of those cartoons will make you laugh at the sheer outrageous violence. But then the joke is told over and over and over and over and over and over and over and
over and
over again...
I have a DVD I bought cheap somewhere, not having seen them before.
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