Scooby-Doo...Where Are You! - Gold Key - Issue 14 - Comic

Scooby-Doo...Where Are You! - Gold Key - Issue 14

Released October 1972

Stories

The Way-Out Inn

This is an original story. The gang are enlisted by a toy maker to uncover the source of haunting ghostly laughter. After the toy maker is tormented again, they decide to get him away from the city and the penthouse. He takes a boat trip with Velma, Shaggy and Scooby while Fred and Daphne search his penthouse for the source of the laughter. The boat grounds itself near an inn. They contact Fred and Daphne to come find them. Then they take refuge at the inn. The inn proves to be a less than restful place.

Many of the original comics fall into a different category than the expected masked monster. Many of them are crimes perpetrated by unassuming expert engineers. This category includes a comic strip artist with a remote control plane, a house haunted as a hobby and a dollhouse.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! mysteries aren't brain breakers. Sometimes the most obvious people because the only people aside from the gang in the story or they're someone who was never referenced. The point wasn't originally the mystery, it was the atmosphere. The human villain was a tool to make the story less scary for kids. I have thoughts about whether this make sense or not that boil down to...I like the fact that within the history of Scooby-Doo there have been real monsters and fake ones. In this story, the villains are the only people that aren't the gang or the client. 

The characterization of Scooby is unique in the comic due to his thought bubbles. We get a lot more dialogue from Scooby even if the gang doesn't acknowledge it. He can be a little snarky like calling out the rest of the gang for being afraid. The thought bubbles can make him being one of the smartest and bravest incarnations of Scooby in some issues like this one. In this issue, he seeks out the bad guys then works a crane to save the gang.

This is the first issue was released after the premiere of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

Batty and the Green Grumble - The Dud Diamond Deal

Batty returns with his friend, the Green Grumble, and his mission to commit crimes. He plans to rob a diamond company. He discovers it's a doily factory. He's bummed but a little happier when he finds out he is now a wanted man.