Scooby-Doo #143 [Direct Sales]

(June 2009)

Wicked Witch of the West Wing (Table of Contents: 1)

Scooby-Doo / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Robbie Busch

Pencils

Joe Staton

Inks

Jeff Albrecht

Colors

Heroic Age

Letters

Travis Lanham

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor; detective-mystery

Velma's Monsters of the World: Cadborosaurus (Table of Contents: 2)

Scooby-Doo / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

John Rozum

Pencils

Karen Matchette

Inks

Mike DeCarlo

Colors

Heroic Age

Letters

Travis Lanham

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor; detective-mystery

Sunday in the Park with Scooby! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Paul Kupperberg

Pencils

Fabio Laguna

Inks

Fabio Laguna

Colors

Dave Tanguay

Letters

Travis Lanham

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is the life, isn’t it, Scooby old buddy?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; hot dog vendor; pizza vendor; baseball-playing kids; dog-walking lady; Georgia (toddler) and her parents; ducks; two armored car drivers; Jimmy “The Mask” Moskowitz (robber); police officer

Synopsis

Shaggy and Scooby take a day off from solving mysteries and spend time in a park. While there, they solve the mystery of a kid’s missing baseball, the mystery of a parents’ missing toddler, the mystery of the park’s missing hot dog wagon – and foil an armored car heist!

Reprints

• in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC, 2010 series) #102 (February 2020)

Keywords

baseball; day off; deductions; disguise; hot dogs; ingenuity; kids; mysteries; parents; park; pizza; robbery; toddler

Indexer Notes

The clue used in solving each mystery or crime is present in the art, but is not obvious (or otherwise telegraphed) to the reader, making this an unusually competent outing for Shaggy and Scooby. Even they are entitled to shine once in a while.