The Freeloading Ghost

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The Freeloading Ghost
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	December 2007
Part of	Scooby-Doo #127
# of pages	4
Writer	Darryl Taylor Kravitz
Penciler	Karen Matchette
Inker	Karen Matchette
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Randy Gentile
Editor	Jeanine Schaefer
Chronology
Previous story	The Football Fiend
Next story	Ghouls Night at the Opera

The Freeloading Ghost is a story in Scooby-Doo #127, by DC Comics.

Premise

An obnoxious ghost, driven from his home by the solution of a case, decides to haunt the gang, instead.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• None

Villains:

• Crystal Key Ghost ^{(only appearance)(ghost)}
• Mr. Ditsel ^{(only appearance)}
• Other Crystal Key Ghosts ^{(only time mentioned)(ghost)}

Other characters:

• Police officers ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Locations

• Crystal Key Mansion

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine

Suspects

• None

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Mr. Ditsel, using the famed crystal key to control the ghosts of his ancestors.	To scare the locals into selling him their land, so that he could make a profit.
Crystal Key Ghost	He hid out in the gang's van, so that he could have a new home with them.

Notes/trivia

• At the end the ghost thinks he has found an envelope in the glove compartment that tells him "where you all live." Since they don't all live in the same house, the ghost may have gotten hold of some other address entirely, which would account for why he is never seen again. Although, they do share a "clubhouse" together in DC Comics canon.

Reprints

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #36 (August 2013).
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #45 (May 2014).
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #94 (August 2018).
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #97 (February 2019).

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.

Reception

In the last story Darryl Taylor Kravitz pits Mystery Inc. against the Freeloading Ghost. While the Scooby-Doo movies brought the Gang face to face with genuine supernatural creatures and magic, the creators behind those works did so with panache. In Kravitz's story, an annoying ghost wastes time with a love of his own voice. The author clearly likes his character but at the expense of the stars.

I give you the worst, most inconsequential issue of Scooby-Doo. Let's hope this doesn't start a trend.