Scooby Doo Comic Books - Need Help

[ccook]

Scooby has appeared in the following number of issues in comic book form:

GOLD KEY - 30 issues (1 reprint), plus four Sears March of Comics premiums, Dec. 1969 - Dec. 1974; issues 1- 16 and 26 as Where Are You!; issues 17-25 and 27-30 as Scooby Doo Mystery Comics
CHARLTON - 11 issues, Feb. 1975 - Oct. 1976
MARVEL - 9 issues (7 with lead-in stories in issues of Dynomutt) plus 13 issues of Laff-a-Lympics and two special appearances (Yogi Bear's Easter Parade, Laff-a-Lympics: The Man Who Stole Thursday--Aug. 1977 - Feb. 1979)
HARVEY - 3 issues (reprints of Charlton issues--Mar. - July 1992)
ARCHIE COMICS - 21 issues plus 2 special issues (Hanna-Barbera Christmas Parade and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo--Aug. 1995 - Apr. 1997)
DC COMICS - 158 issues as Scooby Doo (June 1997- Sept. 2010); 12 issues so far (up to Sept. 2011) as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Oct. 2010 - present)

[ScoobyAddict]

Thanks for the list!! That's a lot of comics!

[ccook]

Here's a thumbnail picture of the cover from the very first Scooby Doo comic. It was drawn by Jack Manning, who drew the Black Knight and the Ape Man for the interior stories because the main artist--Phil DeLara--couldn't.

[ahkyahnan]

Jun 2, 2011 19:06:36 GMT -5 ccook said:

Here's a thumbnail picture of the cover from the very first Scooby Doo comic.

Hmm, wonder where Velma is? Or as in "Lake Monster" was she actually the Black Knight in this version of the story? Just kidding.

Mark

[Doo]

I wondered where Velma was too!

[ccook]

Maybe as with Phil DeLara not able to draw the Black Knight or the Ape Man, Jack Manning couldn't draw Velma. (At least as of drawing the cover, which was done around the time the show premiered. Manning drew five Scooby stories for Gold Key.)

[ScoobyAddict]

Jun 4, 2011 18:11:46 GMT -5 ccook said:

Maybe as with Phil DeLara not able to draw the Black Knight or the Ape Man, Jack Manning couldn't draw Velma. (At least as of drawing the cover, which was done around the time the show premiered. Manning drew five Scooby stories for Gold Key.)

Why couldn't Phil DeLara draw the Black Knight or the Ape Man? Copyright issues?

[ccook]

Nope. Phil (who was a terrific layout artist on Warner Bros. cartoons in the 50s) probably either didn't have an adequate model (at that point, Hanna-Barbera probably only furnished copies of the storyboards to Phil) or his renditions were just too stiff. Phil's comic style was very simplistic and truthfully didn't lend well to Scooby. He drew both issue #1 stories and the adaptation of That's Snow Ghost for issue #5.

[j3h]

This is some really great info! Thanks for the insight ccook.

On a separate note, now that there is a section for comic books perhaps this thread could be moved over there since it has great resource info?

[barneynedward]

Mar 1, 2011 12:20:08 GMT -5 j3h said:

whats really curious is that this current run of Scooby comics are pretty much just reprints of the last series of DC comics...so what has been slipped in or wasn't cought the first time around that DC will take the $$$ loss of destroying an entire print run???

Actually the cover stories are typically new but the back up stories are reprints.