The Friendly Ghost, Casper #129

Harvey Comics delivers a genuinely charming scene on this 1969 cover, as Casper the Friendly Ghost squares off nose-to-nose with a towering, wide-eyed gorilla looming over a city skyline — while a tiny blonde girl in red clutches the giant ape's fist and a yellow biplane buzzes past in the background. The gorilla looks far more startled than threatening, which is pure Casper — even the scariest situations somehow turn adorable. With a story titled "Who the Heck is Ding Dong?" tucked inside, this issue promises the kind of lighthearted, good-natured fun that made Harvey Comics a staple of young readers' collections throughout the 1960s.