Ghouls Night at the Opera

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Ghouls Night at the Opera
Description
Part of	Scooby-Doo! #128
# of pages	10
Writer	Vito Delsante Mick Purpura
Penciler	Tim Levins
Inker	Dan Davis
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Sal Cipriano
Editor	Jeanine Schaefer
Chronology
Previous story	The Freeloading Ghost
Next story	A Town Called Vladsburg!

Ghouls Night at the Opera is a story in Scooby-Doo! #128 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:

• Eduardo Formanini ^{(only appearance)}
• Rudy Fortissimo ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Opera Ghoul ^{(only appearance)(Devon Barton's disguise)}
• Amara Aria ^{(only appearance)(redeemed)}
• Devon Barton ^{(only appearance)(redeemed)}

Other characters:

• Miscellaneous punk opera singers ^{(only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)}

Locations

• Seattle Opera House
  • Auditorium
  • Rudy Fortissimo's dressing room
  • Backstage wings
  • Amara Aria's dressing room

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Rudy Fortissimo	Unpleasant attitude.
Amara Aria	Upset that Rudy stole the leading role from her fiancé.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Devon Barton as the Opera Ghoul Amara Aria, helped him hide his costume in her dressing room	To ensure that Devon get back the leading role.

Notes/trivia

• TBA

Reprints

• Scooby-Doo! Where Are You? #20 (April 2012).
• Scooby-Doo! Where Are You? #43 (March 2014).

Reception

Two outstanding stories split this issue of Scooby-Doo. In the first, the Gang go to a punk rock musical to investigate a haunting. Vito Delsante and Mick Purpura turn the story into a musical. Not an easy thing to do when the comic book is actually a mute object. The writers create melody in the dialogue and include refrains leading to the numbers.

As to the mystery, Delsante and Purpura give the readers plenty of suspects, and hide the culprit well enough. The ghoul reveals himself in the denouement, and they add a novel twist to the typical curse spat by all the frauds the gang have uncovered.

Tim Levins and Dan Davis dramatize Mystery Inc. in a boisterous form that suits the subject matter. They also create some imaginative designs for the punk players of the opera, and the on model Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Daphne and Velma investigate fully dressed sets that help sell the cadence.