Flight Fright!

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Flight Fright!
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Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	May 2008
Part of	Scooby-Doo! #132
# of pages	8
Writer	Scott Cunningham
Penciler	Scott Gross
Inker	Jorge Pacheco
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Randy Gentile
Editor	Jeanine Schaefer
Chronology
Previous story	Velma's Monsters of the World - Acheri
Next story	The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Flight Fright! is the first of three stories in Scooby-Doo #132, by DC Comics. It was followed by The Boy Who Cried Werewolf and Velma's Monsters of the World: The Manticore.

Premise

The gang faces pirate ghosts in a flying balloon-ship.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Bobby Bluster ^{(only appearance)}
• Air Boy Altostratus ^{(only appearance)}
• Clem Cumulus ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Skeleton pirates ^{(only appearance)(birdwatchers' disguises)}
• Birdwatchers ^{(only appearance)}

Other characters:

• Police officer ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Locations

• Capistrano, California
  • Hot-Air Balloon Race

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Skeleton pirates' airship

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Birdwatchers	They said they had come to see the famous swallows of Capistrano, but they were two months late. They had picks and shovels in their birdwatching van.
Air Boy Altostratus	To win the hot-air balloon race.
Clem Cumulus	To win the hot-air balloon race.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Birdwatchers as the skeleton pirates	Motive/reason

Notes/trivia

• TBA

Reprints

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #35 (July 2013).

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.

Reception

Cunningham comes up with the nifty idea of fashioning the gondolas into replicas of ships. With their usual aplomb, Scott Gross and Jorge Pacheco execute the ingenious concept.

The villains of the piece fit the theme of the race. Their accoutrements and look clue the reader quickly into something fishy afloat, but the visual is memorable, and the masquerade allows for a little more emotion which becomes important in accenting some of the scenes.

Mystery Inc. is in excellent form for this story. It's a nice touch that Daphne is the first to become suspicious. Scooby and Shaggy get sucked up into a trap gone wrong. Fred makes two terrific saves.

References

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