Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo...Mystery Comics
#28
[Gold Key]
(October 1974)
Western,
1973 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except January, March, May, September, and November
- On-sale Date
- 1974-08-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Publishing Company Inc.
- Brand
-
Gold Key
- Dell/Western Eight-Digit Code
- 90252-410
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Chase Craig (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #109, August 1974.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Ancient Astronaut
Scooby-Doo / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor
- Characters
- Velma; Fred; Daphne; Scooby Doo
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![Cover Thumbnail for Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo...Mystery Comics (1973 series) #28 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/863/w100/863242.jpg?4905818382772034355)
The Ancient Astronaut
Scooby-Doo / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Scooby Doo; Shaggy; Velma; Daphne; Fred; Mr. Hadley
- Synopsis
- Scooby and the gang are at the Museum of Ancient Art when an Egyptian sarcophagus begins to cough and smoke. The curator, Mr. Hadley, arrives to extinguish it, but it turns out to be a self-destructing tape recorder. Meanwhile, thieves have made off with an Axtakl artifact called the Ancient Astronaut. Clues point to the thieves returning with the artifact to Axtakl, so the museum offers to fly the gang down to Central America to retrieve it.
- Reprints
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in Scooby Doo årsalbum (Semic, 1978 series) #1979 ([desember] 1978) -
in Scooby Doo Stripalbum (De Vrijbuiter, 1979 series) #2 (1980)
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Indexer Notes
This story is slightly shorter than was customary for Scooby Doo Mystery Comics at the time, and also the only new story not written by Mark Evanier since he began writing this series. According to Evanier, "Someone else had written a SCOOBY script for a MARCH OF COMICS special Gold Key planned to do. Then they changed their minds and didn't do that special issue so the story was stuck into the regular SCOOBY comic."
The colorist mistakenly colored Fred's hair light green (the same color as their diving suits) in the last two panels of this story.
Curse of the Wishing Well
Scooby-Doo / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery; humor
- Characters
- Scooby Doo; Shaggy; Velma; Daphne; Fred; Jackie Jacobs; Munger; Gruber
- Synopsis
- The gang decides to volunteer for Jackie Jacobs' World Children's Fund Telethon. The money collected is dumped into a genuine Scottish wishing well, which is supposedly cursed by a demon. The money, of course, falls through a trap door in the floor and is collected in the basement. While Shaggy tries to get Scooby to perform his trained dog act, two thugs, Munger and Gruber, prepare to steal the money when it hits $250,000.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
An older Jackie Jacobs appears in Crossfire #1, page 5 (also by Evanier and Spiegle).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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The Ancient Astronaut
Scooby-Doo -
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The Ancient Astronaut
Scooby-Doo -
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Curse of the Wishing Well
Scooby-Doo
This issue was modified by, among others
- Martin Burch
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Jim Van Dore
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