The Football Fiend

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The Football Fiend
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	December 2007
Part of	Scooby-Doo #127
# of pages	8
Writer	Robbie Busch
Penciler	Scott Neely
Inker	Dan Davis
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Randy Gentile
Editor	Jeanine Schaefer
Chronology
Previous story	Family Monster
Next story	The Freeloading Ghost

The Football Fiend is the second of three stories in Scooby-Doo #127 by DC Comics.

Premise

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Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Mayor Ken Livingston ^{(only appearance)}
• Reporter ^{(only appearance)}
• Izzy "In-Zone" Washington ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Football Fiend ^{(only appearance)(assistant's disguise)}
• Jimmy Eckers ^{(only appearance)}
• Jimmy Eckers' assistant ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Other characters:

• Mr. Dinkley ^(mentioned)
• Crowd ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Locations

• Unnamed city
  • Custer's Stadium
    • Locker room
    • Football field
  • City Hall

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• None

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Jimmy Eckers	He wanted to became the new mayor.
Izzy "In-Zone" Washington	He was the only one who had access to the glowing locker of the Football Fiend.
Reporter	For a news story.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Jimmy Eckers Jimmy Eckers' assistant as the Football Fiend	To make Eckers the new mayor.

Notes/trivia

• Velma mentions that her father used to take her to see football matches there all the time as a child, and Mayor Ken Livingston seems to know the Mystery Inc. for some reason; Could be that the original draft of the story had it occur in Velma's original hometown or in Coolsville?
• The reporter in this story has a strong resemblance to Harry Harrison from the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode Roller Ghoster Ride.
• The "S" on Izzy "In-Zone" Washington can mean that either the town or the team's name starts with an "S".

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.

Reception

While the art in the second story is a major step up in quality, this story also lacks an element of fairplay. There's no way of knowing that the suspect is connected to the piece of evidence that Velma finds, and that entanglement could have easily been teased in the dialogue. No excuse for the usually reliable Robbie Busch. Sorry.