Scooby-Doo...Where Are You! - Gold Key - Issue 8 - Comic

Scooby-Doo...Where Are You! - Gold Key - Issue 8

Released October 1971

Episode Premiere

A Night of Fright is No Delight - January 10, 1970

Stories

Night For A Fright

This is an adaptation of the first season episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight". Scooby-Doo is named an heir in the will of a man he saved from drowning. A condition of the will is that he and the other heirs must spend a night at his haunted estate. As they spend the night at the estate, the inheritors begin disappearing into the hands of the Phantom Shadow.

The comic follows the episode until the end. The villains are the same but the way the capture and the unmasking plays out is different. Scooby-Doo is enraged after accidentally getting caught in the trap Fred set up for the Phantom Shadow. It's not the trap, Scooby's just had a bit of a day. He goes ultra instinct Scooby. He hunts down the Phantom Shadow to take him (or them down). The gang also finds the other relatives tied up in the basement which is both better and darker than the episode. The gang just assumes everyone left in the episode despite the twisted clue of the five coffins in the basement including one open and four closed. The fact that they're tied up in the comic raises the specter of "What were they going to do with them?"

I really liked the changes the writer made from the show to the comic. It was fun seeing Scooby-Doo fight back against the ghosts threatening him.

Rogue's Gallery

Phantom Shadow