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Issue: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #36

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Publication Date: October 2013

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Issues: #36 of 131 Issues (212 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct Sales

Rating: Rated E Everyone

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [peel]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

On Sale Date: 08/07/2013

Volume:

Pages: 32

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 76194129812203611

Price: $2.99 USD

Indicia Frequency: Rated E Everyone

Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: No editor credited in indicia. Editors are credited for the individual stories, but not for the issue overall. Printed 7/26/2013 (per indicia).

All advertising in this issue is for DC or Warner product. No outside (non-house) ads appear.

This is an auto racing themed issue, with two of the three Scooby-Doo stories centering on the subject.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock:

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: ongoing series

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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #36 [Direct Sales]

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #36 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

A Feeling in the Pit (Stop) of Shaggy's Stomach!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy

First Line: Fast food pit stop, Scoob!

Synopsis: Shaggy drives a race car marked "36" and "SD" (for the number of this issue, and for Scooby-Doo), as Scooby waves a checkered flag.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

On Your Marks, Get Set... Ghost!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Hy Octane (pit crew chief); Earl Daleheart (racecar driver); Terry the Terror (monstrous racing mascot); "Fireball" McKenny (rival racecar driver); "Fireball" McKenny's sponsors; two big-time gamblers; Dick (sportscaster); Vern (sportscaster); police officers

First Line: This is amazing, Hy! I never thought we'd be sitting with a pit crew at one of the most challenging racecourses anywhere -- the famous "Terror Track!"

Synopsis: Terry the Terror, a purple monster-like merchandising mascot for the "Terror Track" racecourse, suddenly appears in giant-size, to knock the favored driver, Earl Daleheart, and his car out of a big race.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: DCC030607

Notes: New story.

Earl Daleheart is a parody reference to racing legend Dale Earnhardt (or his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr.). Dick and Vern would be parody references to popular sportscasters Dick Enberg and Verne Lundquist - and are sort of drawn to look like their real-life counterparts.

Great Bit: Sholly Fisch, who also writes the Looney Tunes comic book for DC, has Earl Daleheart, dazed and confused after his run-in with the Terry the Terror monster, say the following when Earl's pit crew tries to coax him back into the race: "No more for me, thanks... I'm driving...", a line which astute fans will recognize as originally having been delivered by a similarly dazed and confused Daffy Duck, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Rabbit Seasoning" (1952).

The Freeloading Ghost

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Mr. Ditsel; police officers; the Crystal Key Ghost

First Line: 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.

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.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: DCSD8657

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.

Beyond its original printing in Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #127 (February 2008), this story has been reprinted four times over the run of the subsequent Scooby-series, Scooby-Doo Where Are You? (2010 Series), in issues #36 (this issue), #45, #94, and three issues later(!) in #96.

The Not-So-Great Race!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Reginald Mopsqueezer; Mrs. Mopsqueezer; Rant Gampy (TV reporter); Bob (TV cameraman); ghost of Jane Deams; Rita Gearstripper; Earl Smudge

First Line: Eeek! A Ghost!!!

Synopsis: The "Coup Deville Road Rally" is disrupted by the ghost of Jane Deams, "...a 1950s movie star who died on this same stretch of road fifty years ago", whose sudden spectral appearance in a ghostly roadster causes one rally driver after another to have competition-ending auto accidents.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: DCSD10374

Notes: As was somewhat common of the Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) title of the time (from which this story is reprinted), a puzzle, this time in the form of a maze through which the reader is to find the correct path to lead a ghost-frightened Scooby and Shaggy back to the rest of the gang, is inserted into the story on page five. Caption: "Zoinks! Follow the right path to get Scooby and Shaggy back to their friends!"

The story's title is a parody of the title of the comedic movie "The Great Race" (1965), starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, and Peter Falk, which served as the inspiration for the Hanna-Barbera animated TV series "Wacky Races" (1968).