Bats What I'm Afraid Of

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Bats What I'm Afraid Of
Description
Part of	Scooby-Doo! #47
# of pages	12
Writer	Brett Lewis
Penciler	Joe Staton
Inker	Dave Hunt
Colorer	Paul Becton
Letterer	Ryan Cline
Chronology
Previous story	The Ex-Verminators
Next story	Tune Goon

Bats What I'm Afraid Of is a story in Scooby-Doo! #47 by DC Comics.

Premise

The Mystery Inc. gang goes batty investigating vampire bat trouble at a creepy coal mine.

Characters

Character
Scooby-Doo
Shaggy Rogers
Fred Jones
Daphne Blake
Velma Dinkley
Norma Mae

Reception

Plot: Bats almost entertainment folks.

While Brett Lewis uses the village under siege plot to good effect and comes up with an inventive motive, the story fails in its use of fruit bats as a disguise for the vampire species. There's no excuse nowadays for poor research when volumes of free information is but a click away. Fruit bats or Flying Foxes do not use echolocation. They prey on fruit. Fruit, brace yourself, does not move. Fruit bats, like humans, possess excellent stereoscopic vision. Were this mistake a mere aside instead of a plot point, I would mention it only in passing.

Joe Staton also must take a few lumps for poor research. His bats with their pushed up noses and big ears look like vampire bats, but fruit bats have doggy faces, snouts and smaller ears: remember, they don't hunt via echolocation. Am I to think that the miscreants behind the scheme attached to each bat a tiny mask?

Both creators do redeem themselves. Daphne is a scream. She spots a clue on page two, throughout the mystery looks delectable and actually seems to be in serious danger when the bats attack. Naturally, Daph stoutly surpasses her fear to be her usual valuable, competent self.