Scooby-Doo Spooky Spectacular 2000 #1

(October 2000)

Welcome to Monsterville (Table of Contents: 1)

Scooby-Doo / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Duffy (credited)

Pencils

Joe Staton (credited)

Inks

Andrew Pepoy (credited)

Colors

Lee Loughridge (credited)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

Editing

Mike Brisbois (credited) (original assistant editor); Bronwyn Taggart (credited) (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Like, we are soooo lost!

Feature Logo

Scooby-Doo [DC Comics Interior Logo]

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Big Red (lobster demon); pack of skateboarding teens; Burt Eastman (town manager of Monsterville); Hester Scarlett (oldest citizen of Monsterville); various citizens of Monsterville; two hipsters from Brooklyn

Synopsis

The small town of Monsterville, Maine, has been at "perpetual war with one monster for almost fifty years". That monster is "Big Red", a lobster demon, and Mystery Inc. is out to expose it as a fake. Stranger than the monster, however, is the overall behavior of the townspeople, who've apparently adapted to having a monster in their midst.

Reprints

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #13 (August 1998)

Keywords

Brooklyn; lobster; Maine; monster; puzzlement

Psychic Psyche-Out! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Joe Edkin (credited)

Pencils

John Delaney (credited)

Inks

Dave Cooper (credited)

Colors

Paul Becton (credited)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

Editing

Dana Kurtin (credited) (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was really generous to bring us to England with you, Cecelia.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Cecelia Fogbottom; various exhibitors and attendees of the "Bath, England Psychic Fair"; Wanda the Wise (psychic); waitress at the Susie Lynn House; Susie Lynn the Ghost of Bath; Inspector Morris

Synopsis

Elderly Cecelia Fogbottom, who "lived next to Shaggy's parents since he was a boy", takes the gang with her to Bath, England, to find the treasure she lost in Bath as a young woman. Convinced that Bath had "its very own ghost", Cecelia seeks a psychic to contact the ghost in the hope that the ghost can lead her to her lost treasure. The gang remains skeptical, until the trail of Cecelia's past leads to an encounter with Susie Lynn the Ghost of Bath.

Reprints

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #19 (February 1999)

Keywords

England; ghost; lost treasure; mystery; psychic; skepticism; unlocking memories

Indexer Notes

Cecelia *really was generous* (as described in the "First Line of Dialogue" above) considering that the Mystery Machine was also brought to England. It can be seen in the first panel. As it does not factor into the story, and is not seen beyond that first panel, might this be an art blooper?

Nice Page Layout: Page three consists of five horizontal panels, each the width of the page (except for margins). The top three panels show Fred, Velma, and Daphne each casually and matter-of-factly debunking the various psychics at the fair, while the lower two panels show Cecelia taking her selected psychic seriously.

Are We Scared Yet? (Table of Contents: 3)

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)

Editing

Dana Kurtin (original editor)

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

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #18 (January 1999)

Keywords

abounding oddities; gremlin; highway; mystery

The Haunted Halibut (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

John Rozum (credited)

Pencils

John Delaney (credited)

Inks

Dave Cooper (credited)

Colors

Paul Becton (credited)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

Editing

Harvey Richards (credited) (original assistant editor); Dana Kurtin (credited) (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Got a bite yet, Scoob?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; lots of fishermen and boaters; The Man-Fish of Halibut Lake; lake ranger; Hannibal Tribe (mercenary monster hunter); Ed; winking fish

Synopsis

The Man-Fish of Halibut Lake, a scaly fish-like creature that walks like a man, has driven away all tourism from a popular fishing site. Enter brawny, showboating Hannibal Tribe, for-profit monster hunter, to save the day.

Reprints

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #23 (June 1999)

Keywords

exaggerating one’s importance; fish; lake; monster; mystery

Revenge, Inc. (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Chris Duffy (credited)

Pencils

Joe Staton (credited)

Inks

Andrew Pepoy (credited)

Colors

Paul Becton (credited)

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

Editing

Harvey Richards (credited) (original assistant editor); Dana Kurtin (credited) (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

As you know, at one point in our criminal careers, each of us planned foolproof crimes that hinged on bizarre spooky costumes.

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery

Characters

Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Revenge, Inc. (five unnamed villains)

Synopsis

Five villains from Mystery Inc.'s past subject the meddling kids to a mass-hypnosis, putting them into a world populated by their greatest fears.

Reprints

• from Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #21 (April 1999)

Keywords

abounding oddities; mass-hypnosis; mystery; revenge; villain team-up

Indexer Notes

There is no need to "unmask" the villains of this tale, because they never don costumes.

A PowerPoint presentation at the meeting of Revenge, Inc. supposedly shows each of the five villains in attendance costumed as they were in their respective encounters with Mystery Inc. - however, one of those images is of "Charlie the Robot" from the Scooby-Doo Where Are You! episode "Foul Play in Funland" (1969). Charlie was not a disguised villain, but an actual robot whose programming was surreptitiously sabotaged.