Number 2521: Heil Stinkle!

At first glance Goobert Ghost appears to be an early version of Casper the Friendly Ghost. Unlike Casper, Goobert wants to scare people, a skill at which he flops. The ghost of a sea captain gives him an idea: quit hanging around the graveyard, instead go to Wormany and haunt the leader, Adolph Stinkle.

The story is written and drawn by animator Kay Wright, one of several animators moonlighting in comic books. This story is from Giggle Comics #1 (1943). I don’t know if Goobert, or Wright, showed up again in Giggle, or Ha Ha Comics, or any number of comic books of the war era aimed at young children. What I know about Kay Wright is he was born Karran Wright, and he worked for Disney. Years later Wright was working in animation, and also for Dell and Gold Key comics, drawing characters from Hanna-Barbera, and Disney.