Read All About It!

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Read All About It!
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	May 2010
Part of	Scooby-Doo #156
# of pages	12
Writer	Paul Kupperberg
Penciler	Fabio Laguna
Inker	Fabio Laguna
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Travis Lanham
Editor	Harvey Richards
Chronology
Previous story	It's a Mystery!
Next story	The Missing Mummy Mystery

Read All About It! is the first story in Scooby-Doo #156 by DC Comics.

Premise

A tabloid paper publisher wants Mystery Inc. to validate an incredible story about aliens.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Dave Segal ^{(only appearance)}
• Ryan and Deb Trainor ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Alien ^{(only appearance)(photograph)}
• Everett T. Trusdale ^{(only appearance)}
• Warren Wallace ^{(only appearance)}
• Army officer ^{(only appearance)}

Other characters:

• Shaggy Rogers's grandfather ^{(mentioned)(no lines)}

Locations

• Unnamed town
  • World's Weekly News
  • Motel
    • Dave Segal's room
      • Restroom
  • Ryan and Deb Trainor's apartment building
    • Ryan and Deb Trainor's apartment
    • Stairwell
  • Forest ^{(flashback only)}
    • Ryan and Deb Trainor's tent ^{(flashback only)}
    • Warren Wallace's tent ^{(flashback only)}
  • Warren Wallace's home
    • Highway rest stop over storm drain
      • Storm drain

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Dave Segal's car
• Army officer's Humvee
• Warren Wallace's car

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Everett T. Trusdale	His news company was losing money and a good story would boost his circulation.
Dave Segal	As the writer breaking this story, he was a natural suspect to be one of the fakers.
Army officer	He was supposedly chasing after the gang and Dave Segal, trying to get their information on the alien's whereabouts.
Ryan and Deb Trainor	They claimed to saw the alien the other night while they were camping in the forest.
Warren Wallace	He claimed to have followed the alien and claimed he knew where it went to hide.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Everett T. Trusdale created a phony alien story Warren Wallace fooled his friends, the Trainors, on the camping trip with an inflatable alien. Army officer, an actor hired by Trusdale to help build up the story.	Trusdale wanted to build up the circulation of his paper and also hide the fact that he was stealing money for himself.

Notes/trivia

• This story reveals that Shaggy had a grandfather that served in the Korean War.

Reprints

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #56 (April 2015).
• ABDO had published it as 2 versioned book.

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.