Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
#25
[Direct Sales]
(November 2012)
- Price
- 2.99 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 2012-09-05
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Rated E Everyone
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC Entertainment
- Barcode
- 761941298122 02511
- Printer
- Transcontinental Interglobe, Beauceville, QC, Canada
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Freaky Phantom Frights!
Scooby-Doo / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Fabio Laguna (credited, signed)
- Inks
- Fabio Laguna (credited, signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Dark Phantom
- Synopsis
- Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are menaced by a Dark Phantom, resembling the phantoms in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? TV episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight" (1970). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907026
- Keywords
- fright; phantom
Indexer Notes
The cover image is not related to either story in the issue.
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Con Games
Scooby-Doo / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Sholly Fisch (credited)
- Pencils
- Scott Neely (credited)
- Inks
- Scott Neely (credited)
- Colors
- Heroic Age (credited)
- Letters
- Dezi Sienty (credited)
- Editing
- Alex Antone (credited) (editor)
- Job Number
- DCCO28387
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I never thought that someone would ask us to speak at a convention! [ See Notes]
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; various MonsterCon guests and attendees; cosplayer in an approximation of Gort (robot from the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"); cosplayer in an approximation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Woody K. Wackerstein; Walt Palace; Eddie Allenshmoe; I.M. Creepy; Ron Zamboni; Ron Zamboni's assistant; The Phantom of the Con
- Synopsis
- Woody K. Wackerstein's "MonsterCon" convention is haunted by the regularly-recurring "Phantom of the Con".
- Reprints
-
in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC, 2010 series) #127 (June 2024)
-
- Keywords
- creator references; dialogue balloon pointing error; fantasy convention; genre parody or tribute references; mystery; phantom; tropes
Indexer Notes
New story.
In the story's first panel, it would appear that Daphne's and Shaggy's dialogue balloons are pointing to the opposite character. Daphne should have the first balloon, while Shaggy should have the second and fourth. The third balloon, pointing to Scooby-Doo, is positioned properly.
Parodies of notable genre figures abound: "Woody K. Wackerstein" = Forrest J. Ackerman, but is also drawn to look slightly like comic book legend Stan Lee.
"Walt Palace" = Gimmicky horror film producer William Castle.
"Eddie Allenshmoe" = Historic horror author Edgar Allen Poe.
"I.M. Creepy" = Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling (?), if only in the pronunciation cadence of the character's name.
"Ron Zamboni" = Horror makeup master Tom Savini - with an unnamed assistant drawn to look like a cleaned-up version of makeup master and producer Greg Nicotero.
GOOD BITS: A tour de force of genre humor by writer Sholly Fisch and the story's artists...
The "Gort" cosplayer parodies the immortal phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as "Hava Nagila Nicto" - referencing the traditional Jewish folk song "Hava Nagila".
The "cosplayers-as-aliens" reveal themselves as human to a scared Shaggy and Scooby (ever steeped in their own tropes):
SHAGGY: "Oh, I get it! They're like COSTUMES! I'll bet you guys are trying to STEAL somebody's inheritance! Or are you, like, PIRATES trying to cover up your SMUGGLING OPERATION?"
COSPLAYER: "Huh?"
VELMA: "Actually, I think they're science fiction fans dressed up for fun."
Scooby gives a thumbs-up to a kid in a Scooby-Doo T-shirt.
THREE movie posters on display - in the SAME PANEL - represent the same 1950s sci-fi/horror poster trope. One shows a bulge-headed alien carrying off an unconscious woman. A second, in a parody of the influential 1956 film "Forbidden Planet" titled "Don't Go Here", shows a Robby the Robot-like automaton carrying off an unconscious woman. The third shows a werewolf (you guessed it) carrying off an unconscious woman.
Follow That Monster!
Scooby-Doo / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- John Rozum (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Staton (credited)
- Inks
- Horacio Ottolini (credited)
- Colors
- Heroic Age (credited)
- Letters
- Nick Napolitano (credited as Nick J. Napolitano)
- Editing
- Joan Hilty (credited) (editor); Rachel Gluckstern (credited) (assistant editor)
- Job Number
- DCSD303
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ahh! Now, this is the life for me!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; sheriff; frightened motel guests; frightened town residents; squad of looters; helicopter pilots
- Synopsis
- A giant reptilian monster threatens a peaceful small town.
- Reprints
- from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #96 (July 2005)
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- Keywords
- ascot-less Fred; evacuation; monster; panic
Indexer Notes
Fred is in his "ascot-less" outfit, as seen in the TV series What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002-2006), as the original printing of this story was influenced by the run of that series.
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