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Issue: Scooby-Doo #49

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Publication Date: August 2001

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Issues: #49 of 159 Issues (314 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct Sales

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

On Sale Date: 06/13/2001

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 76194121101504911

Price: $3.25 CAD
$1.99 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: "Cartoon Network" logo also appears at top center.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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Scooby-Doo #49 [Direct Sales]

Scooby-Doo #49 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (4 total)

So Near and Yet So Tar!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Fred; Shaggy; The Tar Monster; little Tar Monsters

First Line: Haw! That's the Tar Monster?!?

Synopsis: While Shaggy scoffs at some little Tar Monsters, the big Tar Monster looms behind him, Scooby, and Fred.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

Joe Staton, Dave Hunt, and Paul Becton are credited for this cover on the letters page.

The Case of the Greedy Tar

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Tar Monster; Kramden-like head museum guard; Norton-like museum guard; other museum guards; museum curator; two tar-cleanup workmen

First Line: Run for your lives!!! It's the Tar Monster!

Synopsis: A monster made out of tar seems to be behind several thefts at the museum.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Two of the museum guards are drawn to slightly resemble the characters of Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) and Ed Norton (Art Carney). This is particularly so on page nine.

Elf King Swing

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Willie von Gerhard; The Elf King; Onkel Karl Knabe; Wolfgang Schrenk

First Line: Baron von Gerhard... like, ya wanna tell us why we have to ditch the Mystery Machine at the bottom of this f-foggy hill? It's kinda scary, y'know?

Synopsis: An old classmate of the gang calls them to figure out the mystery of a threatening ghostly figure that recites the poetry of Goethe.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: At certain times, the character of Willie von Gerhard, as drawn, appears to resemble Bob Hope, as the comedian appeared in older DC Comics. There would be no obvious reason for this coincidental resemblance, as the Willie von Gerhard character is not intended to be "funny" in any way.

In a very nice touch for a tale taking place in Germany, this story is peppered with some actual German words - not enough to be off-putting, and with meanings easily discernible within context.

In an even nicer touch, our villain delivers a German-flavored variety of a classic Scooby-Doo utterance: "And I would have gotten away with it... if not for those aufdringlich Kinder!"

Mystery Mail

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Fred

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Art and letters submitted by Abbey Massey; Josh Nussman.
Page includes cover art for the following issue (#50) by Joe Staton.

Repurposed art of Scooby-Doo sniffing-out clues, used as a spot illustration, is by Vincent Deporter, from "The Case of the Greedy Tar" - page two, panel one.

An additional repurposed image of a shoulder-shrugging Fred is also used as a spot illustration. But that image does not appear in either story from this issue.