Here's another vintage Halloween ad, this one for
Kmart from the October 19, 1972
Journal. Kmart must have decided not to spend a lot of money carrying a line of expensive, licensed TV characters.
Instead, there's a generic owl, witch, kitten and – Gus the Ghost? Who he?
I don't know, but there are a few Gus the Ghost costumes for sale on eBay right now. (Note the box is just labeled 'GHOST.'
Although Gus the Ghost seems to be a Casper the Friendly Ghost ripoff, there
was a book published in 1961 called
Gus Was a Friendly Ghost. So was the costume actually based on the literary character?
We probably don't have a ghost of a chance of finding out for sure.
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GUS THE GHOST was a character created in 1961 by Jane Thayer, published in a series of nine books.
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