[This Dryad's All Wet!]
Scooby-Doo
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cover /
1
page
| Script: | ? |
| Pencils: | Valerio Chiola (credited) (signed as Chiola) |
| Inks: | Valerio Chiola (credited) (signed as Chiola) |
| Colors: | Valerio Chiola (credited) (signed as Chiola) |
| Letters: |
- Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Raggy, are we reing watched?
- Keywords:Dryad; fear; forest setting; Greek Mythology; mystery; trees
- Synopsis:
- A Dryad lurks in the trees above the Mystery Inc. gang.
Indexer Notes
The cover creator(s) are credited in "white-lettering-along-a-black-strip" at the bottom or side of the UPC code box. In this case, the artist/colorist has also signed the cover.
Issue Data
- Publisher's Brand:
DC [circle and serifs]
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics
- Indicia Frequency: bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines: Ages 8+
- Printer: Transcontinental Printing Interweb Montreal
- Barcode: 761941298122 11311
Indexer Notes
No editor credited in indicia. Editors are credited for the individual stories, but not for the issue overall. Printed by Transcontinental Printing Interweb Montreal, a division of Transcontinental Printing, Inc., Boucherville, QC, Canada 12/10/2021 (per indicia).
All advertising in this issue is for DC or Warner product, and one anti-bullying PSA featuring Beast Boy from "Teen Titans Go". No non-house ads, text pages, or activity pages appear. Of those ads, five are for DC Graphic Novels for Kids and one for the "DC: Batman Bat Tech augmented reality game".
Unboxing Day
Scooby-Doo
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comic story /
10
pages
| Script: | Ivan Cohen (credited) |
| Pencils: | Valerio Chiola (credited) |
| Inks: | Valerio Chiola (credited) |
| Colors: | Valerio Chiola (credited) |
| Letters: | Saida Temofonte (credited) |
| Editing: | Courtney Jordan (credited) (editor) |
- Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:What's up, guys? It's your pal Billy Builder, and we're here in Cooper's Wood, ready to build a mega, all-star box fort treehouse...
- Keywords:Dryad; forest setting; Greek Mythology; mystery; trees; webcasting
- Synopsis:
- Webcasters Builder Billy and Builder Betty, with special guests Scooby-Doo and Shaggy of Mystery Inc., are going to live-stream the construction of a "box fort treehouse" in the forest of Cooper’s Wood, which was decimated by a fire 25 years ago. This project, with all proceeds from the show going to the Cooper’s Wood Restoration Fund, is set to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the sad event, when a Dryad (a Greek mythological forest spirit "who would be very gentle unless their woods were threatened") appears and orders everyone to leave the forest.
Indexer Notes
New story.
For the second time within a span of five issues, the new story has the Mystery Inc. gang up against a purported creature from Greek Mythology. The Chimera in issue #109 (cover date: June, 2021) and a Dryad in this issue, #113 (cover date: February, 2022).
The story, titled "Unboxing Day", appears in an issue released on December 21, 2021 - five days before the actual holiday known as "Boxing Day", on December 26, 2021.
There appears to be some sort of unfulfilled effort to tie this tale in with the story of D.B. Cooper. Cooper was a 1971 airplane hijacker and the subject of a decades-long unsolved crime story. Per Wikipedia: “He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington”.
Our story's locale is “Cooper’s Wood”, it concerns an airplane, and turns upon a search for long-lost loot by a character named “C.F. Fletcher” (...which, when spoken, has the same cadence as “D.B. Cooper”.
The story is neither faithful enough to that of Cooper to be a tribute nor sufficiently lampooned to be a satire, falling into some in-between “no-man’s-land” - as Cooper, himself, may have done.
Elf King Swing
Scooby-Doo
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comic story /
12
pages
| Script: | Terrance Griep (credited as Terrance Griep Jr.) |
| Pencils: | Anthony Williams (credited) |
| Inks: | Jeff Albrecht (credited) |
| Colors: | Paul Becton (credited) Digital Chameleon (credited) (separations) |
| Letters: | Jenna Garcia (credited) |
| Editing: | Harvey Richards (credited) (assistant editor) Joan Hilty (credited) (editor) |
- Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; detective-mystery
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Baron von Gerhard... like, ya wanna tell us why we have to ditch the Mystery Machine at the bottom of this f-foggy hill? It's kinda scary, y'know?
- Keywords:ancestral home; Elf King; German folklore; Germany; inheritance; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; mystery; unusual ad configuration
- Synopsis:
- An old classmate of the gang calls them to figure out the mystery of a threatening ghostly figure that recites the poetry of Goethe.
Reprints (1)
from Indexer Notes
The ads and publisher previews in this issue are configured in such a way that this twelve-page story runs uninterrupted from beginning-to-end. Unusual for a contemporary DC comic book.
At certain times, the character of Willie von Gerhard, as drawn, appears to resemble Bob Hope, as the comedian appeared in older DC Comics. There would be no obvious reason for this coincidental resemblance, as the Willie von Gerhard character is not intended to be "funny" in any way.
In a very nice touch for a tale taking place in Germany, this story is peppered with some actual German words - not enough to be off-putting, and with meanings easily discernible within context.
In an even nicer touch, our villain delivers a German-flavored variety of a classic Scooby-Doo utterance: "And I would have gotten away with it... if not for those aufdringlich Kinder!"
- Jochen G.
- John Monagle
- Joe Torcivia
