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Mystery Macabre is a story in Scooby-Doo! #83 by DC Comics.
Premise
Scooby and the gang are backstage for the filming of the Mystery Macabre TV show. The show is being haunted by a ghost that is sabotaging the star of the show, Evil Ella. The gang snoop around to learn that the entire stage crew was behind the haunting. They were unhappy with the way Ella changed their parking spots and cut their pay.
Synopsis
Characters
Character |
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Scooby-Doo |
Shaggy Rogers |
Fred Jones |
Daphne Blake |
Velma Dinkley |
Evil Ella |
Cousin Tedd (Fred's cousin) |
Boom Operator |
Mirror Holder |
Cue Card Holder |
Cameraman |
Maintenance Man |
Set Designer |
Director |
Villains
- Pink-Veiled Corpse Creature
- Green-skinned Fanged Creature
- Horned Hairy-Torsoed Monster
- Bug-Eyed Bat Beast
- Man-Porcupine
- Man-Rhino
- Mummy
- Werewolf
- Flying Ant Monster
- Opera Ghoul
- Amphibious Menace
- Light Blue-Gray-Haired Monster
- Cowboy Ghost
- Clay Monster
- Robot Monster with A Human Brain
- Other assorted monsters
Suspects
Suspect | Motive/reason |
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Maintenance Man | Strange manner. |
Cousin Tedd Jones | He knew that Ella was accident-prone. He knew that the rumor going around that the set was cursed was ruining the production of "Mystery Macabre". |
Set Designer | The gang found out that he got a pay cut. |
Cameraman | The gang found out that he lost his health plan. |
Director | The gang found out that he was not assigned a parking space. |
The rest of the entire T.V. crew | The gang found out that they all hated Ella, too. |
Culprits
Culprit | Motive/reason |
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Set Designer as The | Revenge on Evil Ella for giving him a pay cut. |
The rest of the television crew as the rest of the forementioned monsters. | Like everyone else, they wanted revenge on Evil Ella for making their lives miserable. |
Locations
- Television studio
- "Mystery Macabre" horror-show set
- The backstage wings
- Evil Ella's trailer
- Cousin Tedd's office
- "Mystery Macabre" car chase scene
- The costume warehouse
Notes/trivia
Reception
The second story also deals with Hollywood, but it lacks the insiders eye evinced by John Rozum. Still it's a pleasant tale featuring an Elvira-like horror hostess that bedazzles the usually unflappable Shaggy. This scene incidentally does not contradict the scene in Rozum's mystery where Shaggy and Scoob express their distaste for romance movies.
The artwork by Batic while slightly off model is often interesting in through a choice of unusual camera angles. Batic for instance in one panel takes a bird's eye/slanted view of the Gang's investigation. He also creates some pretty gruesome masks for our "ghosts" to wear.
Rozum's mystery while a little obvious is still a perfect Scooby-Doo caper with classic characterization and nuances of character growth. Frank Strom provides admirable backup that probably could have been just a little more fairplay. [1]
Quotes
References
- ↑ Ray Tate in Line of Fire Reviews