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Issue: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #79

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Publication Date: May 2017

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Issues: #79 of 131 Issues (212 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Rated E Everyone

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

On Sale Date: 2017

Volume:

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07447030947579

Price: $2.99 CAD
$2.99 USD

Indicia Frequency: Rated E Everyone

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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? #79 [Direct Sales]

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #79 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

Mystery’s in the Cards!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma (all as playing card images); Romanian vampire

Synopsis: A vampire plays magician, tossing out cards with the gang's faces on them.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Magic Hassle

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Murdstone the Magnificent (magician); Rickey DelGaudio ("Rickey D." magician); Mystic Mansion audience; Rickey D.'s assistants; Romanian vampire; The Great Prestini (magician)

First Line: We're really going up there?

Synopsis: The gang visits Mystic Mansion, "a 15th century castle moved brick by brick [to the US] from Romania", which now serves as a club and performance venue for professional stage magicians. Magician Rickey D. performs a new trick for the audience in which he makes the handcuffs, top hat, gloves, magic wand, and double-sized deck of cards, that once belonged to legendary magician he Great Prestini, disappear and then reappear in a chain-locked cabinet. Only problem is, the items don't reappear but are stolen by a caped Romanian vampire.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: DCCO38908

Notes: New story.

"Mystic Mansion" is a tribute reference to "The Magic Castle" which (per Wikipedia) is a performance venue, restaurant, and clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts for magicians and magic enthusiasts in Hollywood, California. However, it was not transported from Romania, but instead was once a private residence built in 1909.

In a flashback, The Great Prestini is seen on a late-night TV talk show with a host appearing as an amalgam of "The Tonight Show" pair Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon. Page 6, panel 2.

In the first page, first panel establishing shot, the "Mystic Mansion" looks very reminiscent of the haunted house that opens the Second Season theme sequence to "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" (1970-1971 TV season).

Velma's Monsters of the World: The Plat-Eye

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Velma; man with treasure-box; the plat-eye (monster); would-be treasure hunter; Scooby-Doo; Shaggy

First Line: Hi, kids. Welcome to another fascinating episode of Velma's Monsters of the World where we will look at the plat-eye…

Synopsis: Velma tells the legend of the plat-eye, a "gruesome protecting spirit" grown from the severed head of one's enemy.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: DCSD6743

Notes: This story has been reprinted five times, in addition to its original printing in Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #118 (2007). See the index for Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 series) #118 (2007) for where this story has been reprinted.

The Blackest Knight

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): Scooby-Doo; Shaggy; Fred; Daphne; Velma; Lord Geoff; Sir John; Criswell (butler); Eunice (cook); The Black Night

First Line: Jinkies! I never knew the English countryside had so many castles!

Synopsis: The ghostly Black Knight haunts an English castle, searching for an heirloom ring.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Writer Sholly Fisch expertly peppers this story with references to DC Comics superhero Green Lantern:

The TITLE ITSELF, "The Blackest Knight", sets the tone, as the classic Green Lantern Oath begins: "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight."

Page 1, panel 1:
VELMA: "Jinkies! I never knew the English countryside had so many castles! Are you sure this is the right one?"
DAPHNE: "Sure. See? There's a GREEN LANTERN hanging over the door, just like Lord Geoff said."

Page 1, panel 2:
The two British nobles of the castle are introduced as "Lord Geoff" and "Sir John", a reference to Green Lantern writer and creative force, Geoff Johns.

Page 3, panel 4:
Lord Geoff confesses that Mystery, Inc. was invited to the castle because "We need help -- from brave souls such as yourselves, who are BORN WITHOUT FEAR." - Members of the Green Lantern Corps are "born without fear".

Page 4, panel 1:
The ghostly Black Knight seeks a family heirloom RING, bearing an eagle carved from a large EMERALD. - Green Lanterns each have a POWER RING, emitting EMERALD ENERGY.

Page 4, panel 5:
DAPHNE: "Keep your eyes peeled for a ring with an EMERALD EAGLE!"
LORD GEOFF: "Excellent! No EAGLE shall escape our sight!" - Parodying the "Green Lantern Oath".

Page 7, panel 5:
An ANCIENT WILL reveals that "whoever wears the family ring is Lord of the Manor -- and owns it all!"
SHAGGY: "Whew! Talk about 'WILL POWER'!" -- Green Lantern rings are driven by the wearer's will power!