Cover Story

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Cover Story
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	February 2005
Part of	Scooby-Doo #93
# of pages	10
Writer	Frank Strom
Penciler	Joe Staton
Inker	Scott McRae
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Phil Balsman
Editor	Joan Hilty
Chronology
Previous story	The Maze of Twisted Manor
Next story	The Haunted Half-Pipe

Cover Story is a story in Scooby-Doo #93, by DC Comics.

Premise

Scooby's gang fight monsters at a honeymoon hideaway and on a mountain near a polar bear expedition camp in the Arctic. Daphne gives Velma a make-over in order to go out with a nice young magazine writer.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Hunter Bangs ^{(only appearance)}
• Honeymoon Hideaway manager ^{(only appearance)}
• Polar Bear expedition camp leader ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Ravenous Troglodyte ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(crooked land developer's disguise)}
• Crooked land developer ^{(only appearance)}
• Yeti ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(evil land developer's disguise)}
• Evil land developer ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Other characters:

• Buddy ^{(only appearance)}
• Peggy Sue ^{(only appearance)}
• Hot dog vendor ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Boris Ratnick ^(mentioned)
• Rival expedition campers ^(mentioned)

Locations

• Coolsville
  • Mystery Inc.'s clubhouse
  • Clothing store
  • Schoolhouse
• Honeymoon Hideaway
  • Lobby
  • Hot dog stand
  • Troglodyte's cave
  • Romantic trail
• Arctic
  • Polar bear expedition camp
  • Rival polar bear expedition camp
  • Yeti's mountain

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Hunter Bangs's car

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Honeymoon Hideaway manager	He said business had seen better days.
Rival expedition campers	Rivals of the other polar bear expedition campers.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Crooked land developer as the Ravenous Troglodyte	To buy up the land where Honeymoon Hideaway was built on.
Evil land developer as the Yeti	To buy up the land where the polar bear expedition camps were.

Notes/trivia

• TBA

Reprints

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #23 (July 2012).

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.

Reception

John Rozum, with Staton, DeCarlo and Scott McRae, in the puzzle and the final short plays with the conventions of the formula. Rozum's tales end up upending your expectations.

"Cover Story" seems to take a page from Scooby Doo II. Rozum however surprises not once but twice. His final beat is laugh out loud funny, and there are still plenty of twists within the formula to delight Scooby fans of all ages.

Staton of course has perfected his look for the gang, and even though these are of the What's New Scooby-Doo? design, he still treats the Gang as serious characters to illustrate even when they may not be behaving seriously. His timing within the panels makes Scooby-Doo a breezy read but with meaty rewards.