Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #94

(October 2018)

Not Just Yeti (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Sholly Fisch (credited)

Pencils

Randy Elliott (credited)

Inks

Randy Elliott (credited)

Colors

Pamela Lovas (credited)

Letters

Saida Temofonte (credited)

Editing

Harvey Richards (credited)

Job Number

DCCO3978

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lots of things can go wrong when you’re rock climbing, so you always have to expect the unexpected…

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; yeti; Benjy Kord (climbing gym owner); Tom Buldown (former employee of Benjy’s climbing gym); Hy Pique (rival climbing gym owner); Vertigo (reckless extreme-climber)

Synopsis

A yeti, a monster of legend said to inhabit high, snowy mountain peaks, is scaring-off customers at a big city rock climbing gym.

Keywords

gym; rock climbing; yeti

Indexer Notes

New story. Incidental character names are puns or jokes. TV episode references: Page one, panel five Daphne speaks of the gang’s having “…solved some cases involving yetis or abominable snowmen”. She would be referring to: “That’s Snow Ghost” (Scooby-Doo Where Are You!, 1969), “A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright” (The Scooby-Doo Show, 1976), and “There’s No Creature Like Snow Creature” (What’s New Scooby-Doo?, 2002).

The Not-So-Brave and the Bold! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

DC Comics; Scooby-Doo Team-Up / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Freeloading Ghost (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Darryl Kravitz (credited as Darryl Taylor Kravitz)

Pencils

Karen Matchette (credited)

Inks

Karen Matchette (credited)

Colors

Heroic Age (credited)

Letters

Randolph Gentile (credited as Randy Gentile)

Editing

Jeanine Schaefer (credited)

Job Number

DCSD8657

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It didn’t take long to discover, when Scooby found the crystal key, that Mr. Ditsel was using it to control the ghost of his ancestors to scare the locals into selling their land cheap so he could make a profit.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Mr. Ditsel; police officers; the Crystal Key Ghost

Synopsis

The resolution of a mystery, and subsequent de-ghosting of an old house, by Mystery Inc. leaves an overly verbose ghost without a home. Unbeknownst to the gang, he decides to take up residence in The Mystery Machine – and develops a taste for Scooby Snacks.

Reprints

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #127 (February 2008)

Keywords

displacement; frequently reprinted story; ghost; haunting; new home; unexpected intrusion

Indexer Notes

The Crystal Key Ghost is an unusually rendered character, comprised of a skeleton’s skull and body – but filled-out by swirling black ink lines from neck-to-toe, filled-in with light gray coloring that leaves the bones visible. The Ghost delivers a full-page, six-panel soliloquy on page two, as the sole character on that page, on the state of his abrupt upheaval. A sequel appears to be set-up in the final panel. This story is reprinted again three issues later in #97, as well as in two earlier issues of Scooby-Doo Where Are You? (DC, 2010 series). See the index entry for Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #127 (February 2008) for more detail.

At Least That Beast (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Terrance Griep (credited)

Pencils

Scott Neely (credited)

Inks

Scott Neely (credited)

Colors

Heroic Age (credited)

Letters

Steve Wands (credited as swands)

Editing

Harvey Richards (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Keep investigating, gang! Just because we’re out of our element here in the Congo, we’ve still got to…

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; John Arkizi; Dr. Grenier; Uba Carr; Grant Watkins; the Mokele-Mbembe (dinosaur-like river beast); Kwaheri (witch doctor who controls the river beast)

Synopsis

An African diamond mine and its workers are imperiled by the Mokele-Mbembe, a dinosaur-like river beast of legend, under the control of a witch doctor.

Reprints

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #145 (August 2009)

Keywords

beast of legend; diamond mine; dinosaur; witch doctor