Scooby-Doo #18 [Direct Sales]

(January 1999)

Are We Scared Yet? (Table of Contents: 1)

Scooby-Doo / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Duffy (credited)

Pencils

Manny Galan (credited)

Inks

Mike DeCarlo (credited)

Colors

Paul Becton (credited)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We're not going to make it --!

Feature Logo

Scooby-Doo [DC Comics Interior Logo]

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Velma; Gremlin; creepy toll collector; Zeke (gas station proprietor); Marty (souvenir shop proprietor); Fred (Cameo); Daphne (Cameo)

Synopsis

On the way to pick up Fred and Daphne at the "Terror Island Ferry", Scooby, Shaggy, and Velma are waylaid by a Gremlin on spooky Route 1313.

Reprints

• in Scooby-Doo Spooky Spectacular 2000 (DC, 2000 series) #1 (October 2000)
• in Scooby-Doo (DC, 2003 series) #4 - The Big Squeeze ([April] 2005)
• in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC, 2010 series) #3 (January 2011)
• in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC, 2012 series) ([May] 2012)
• in Scooby-Doo aktivitetshefte; Scooby Doo aktivitetspose (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2011 series) #[2015] ([oktober] 2015)

Keywords

abounding oddities; gremlin; highway; mystery

Sound Stage Spook (Table of Contents: 2)

Scooby-Doo / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

John Rozum (credited)

Pencils

Joe Staton (credited)

Inks

Andrew Pepoy (credited)

Colors

Paul Becton (credited)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Like, gee, thanks a lot!

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Grampa Teddy Jones (actor, Fred's grandfather); The Ghost of Clayton Lonney; Tom Burden (movie producer/director) Lucas Spiegel (Tom Burden's rival at a competing studio); Tom Sevine (horror makeup artist); Nick (actor); actor playing Zandor (of The Herculoids - cameo); actor playing Igoo the Rock Ape (of The Herculoids - with head exposed from costume - cameo); young actress playing Jan (from Space Ghost - cameo); actor playing Ranger Smith (from Yogi Bear - cameo)

Synopsis

The production of "BISQUE, Horror from the Deep", a monster movie starring Fred's Grampa Teddy, is haunted by the ghost of silent film star and horror legend Clayton Lonney.

Reprints

• in Scooby-Doo (DC, 2003 series) #4 - The Big Squeeze ([April] 2005)
• in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC, 2010 series) #5 (March 2011)
• in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC, 2012 series) ([May] 2012)

Keywords

actors; crab; directors; ghost; monster movies; parody or tribute references; silent films

Indexer Notes

Grampa Teddy Jones (film star and grandfather to Fred) is an "older version of Fred", but with silver hair and a continental, "Caesar Romero-like" moustache. Like Fred, he wears the Jones-trademark ascot but keeps it tucked in his shirt. Grampa Teddy Jones previously appeared in "Legend of the Silver Scream", the lead story from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 Series) #5 (December, 1997).

Hollywood parody-tribute references abound: "Clayton Lonney" = Lon Chaney, Sr., "Lucas Spiegel" = an amalgam of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Tom Sevine = noted horror makeup artist Tom Savini. If anyone knows who "Tom Burden" might be, please add it here.

The creature prop used for the film "BISQUE, Horror from the Deep" owes much to it's real-life counterpart seen in "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (1957) directed by the legendary Roger Corman.

Dueling Movie Monster Madness: Exchange between Tom Burden and Shaggy on competing creature flicks:

BURDEN: "...My latest masterpiece -- the giant crustacean-at-the-races movie 'BISQUE, Horror from the Deep'!"

SHAGGY: "Like, isn't the giant crustacean-at-the-speedway movie called 'CLAWS'?"

BURDEN (insulted): "Bite your tongue! That's the movie Lucas Spiegel is directing for a rival movie studio! Mine is about a scary giant CRAB! His is about a scary giant LOBSTER! There's NO comparison!"

"CLAWS", of course, is a parody reference to the film "JAWS" (1975) directed by - NOT Lucas Spiegel, but - Steven Spielberg.

Saving the world before bedtime. (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Cartoon Network; The Powerpuff Girls / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Scooby's Mystery Mail (Table of Contents: 4)

Scooby's Mystery Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Dave Roman

Colors

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Greetings, Scooby fans!!

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Keywords

letters of comment

Decade to Decade... Father to Son... (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

DC Comics; Superman & Batman Generations / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Blast Off! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

New Line Cinema; Lost in Space / advertisement / 1 page (report information)