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Issue: Scooby-Doo #70

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Publication Date: May 2003

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Issues: #70 of 159 Issues (314 Printings)

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Variant: Direct Sales

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

On Sale Date: 03/12/2003

Volume:

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 76194121101507011

Price: $3.75 CAD
$2.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)

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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

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Scooby-Doo #70 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (3 total)

Beware the Stone-Cold Stare!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): The Basilisk

First Line: Like, if looking at the creature turns you to stone -- we're in a load of trouble!

Synopsis: Shaggy and Scooby flee the Basilisk with a wheelbarrow full of Fred, Daphne, and Velma, who have been turned to stone.

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Pages: 1

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

Petrified!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): The Basilisk; Leo Sunburst (folklorist); mayor; butcher; Jed Brady; Dustin Chalk

First Line: So what exactly does that letter say, Velma?

Synopsis: The Mystery Inc. gang brings their unique brand of "meddling" to a small town where residents have been turned to stone by a creature of Middle Ages legend called a Basilisk.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Job Number: DCSC208

Notes: Rather than his standard exclamation of "Zoinks!", in this story Shaggy cries out "EEK!" - twice on one page.

The Grappling Guardian

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous, mystery

Character(s): The Guardian Spirit (ghost); Mrs. Fiegen (museum curator US); Leung Kar-Fai (museum curator China); wise guy museum patron; older man museum patron; various other museum patrons; Mr. Elliot (museum director US); two smugglers; stunt man; Cheung Man-Yuk (Chinese customs agent), US customs agents

First Line: We are very pleased to be able to include this piece in the exhibit.

Synopsis: No sooner than a statue of a Chinese Guardian Spirit is exhibited at an American museum, than the ghost of the Guardian Spirit appears at the opening gala, demanding that the statue be returned to China.

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Pages: 10

Job Number: DCSD209

Notes: The implied, but not overtly mentioned, crime behind this story is very likely drug smuggling - per the oblique dialogue on page 10, panel 5. Not exactly a "typical case" for Scooby and the gang.

Refers back to "The Dragon's Eye" in Scooby-Doo (DC, 1997 Series) #60-66.