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Issue: Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo...Mystery Comics #28
Publication Date: October 1974
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Issues: #28 of 14 Issues (23 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Gold Key
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/29/1974
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #109, August 1974.
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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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FlagScooby Doo årsalbum #1979 published December 1978 as Den gamle astronauten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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The Ancient Astronaut

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, mystery
Character(s): Velma; Fred; Daphne; Scooby Doo
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ancient Astronaut

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Scooby Doo; Shaggy; Velma; Daphne; Fred; Mr. Hadley
Synopsis: Scooby and the gang are at the Museum of Ancient Art when an Egyptian sarcophagus begins to cough and smoke. The curator, Mr. Hadley, arrives to extinguish it, but it turns out to be a self-destructing tape recorder. Meanwhile, thieves have made off with an Axtakl artifact called the Ancient Astronaut. Clues point to the thieves returning with the artifact to Axtakl, so the museum offers to fly the gang down to Central America to retrieve it.
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In Content Item: FlagScooby Doo Stripalbum #2 published January 1980
as De antieke astronaut [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: This story is slightly shorter than was customary for Scooby Doo Mystery Comics at the time, and also the only new story not written by Mark Evanier since he began writing this series. According to Evanier, "Someone else had written a SCOOBY script for a MARCH OF COMICS special Gold Key planned to do. Then they changed their minds and didn't do that special issue so the story was stuck into the regular SCOOBY comic."

The colorist mistakenly colored Fred's hair light green (the same color as their diving suits) in the last two panels of this story.
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Curse of the Wishing Well

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, mystery
Character(s): Scooby Doo; Shaggy; Velma; Daphne; Fred; Jackie Jacobs; Munger; Gruber
Synopsis: The gang decides to volunteer for Jackie Jacobs' World Children's Fund Telethon. The money collected is dumped into a genuine Scottish wishing well, which is supposedly cursed by a demon. The money, of course, falls through a trap door in the floor and is collected in the basement. While Shaggy tries to get Scooby to perform his trained dog act, two thugs, Munger and Gruber, prepare to steal the money when it hits $250,000.
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Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: An older Jackie Jacobs appears in Crossfire #1, page 5 (also by Evanier and Spiegle).

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