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Read All About It! is the first story in Scooby-Doo #156 by DC Comics.
Premise[]
A tabloid paper publisher wants Mystery Inc. to validate an incredible story about aliens.
Synopsis[]
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Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
- Dave Segal (only appearance)
- Ryan and Deb Trainor (only appearance)
Villains:
- Alien (only appearance)(photograph)
- Everett T. Trusdale (only appearance)
- Warren Wallace (only appearance)
- Army officer (only appearance)
Other characters:
- Shaggy Rogers's grandfather (mentioned)(no lines)
Locations[]
- Unnamed town
- World's Weekly News
- Motel
- Dave Segal's room
- Restroom
- Dave Segal's room
- Ryan and Deb Trainor's apartment building
- Ryan and Deb Trainor's apartment
- Stairwell
- Forest (flashback only)
- Ryan and Deb Trainor's tent (flashback only)
- Warren Wallace's tent (flashback only)
- Warren Wallace's home
- Highway rest stop over storm drain
- Storm drain
- Highway rest stop over storm drain
Objects[]
- TBA
Vehicles[]
- The Mystery Machine
- Dave Segal's car
- Army officer's Humvee
- Warren Wallace's car
Suspects[]
Suspect | Motive/reason |
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Everett T. Trusdale | His news company, World's Weekly News, was losing money and lots of it. A good story would boost his circulation. |
Dave Segal | As the World's Weekly News writer breaking this story, he was a natural suspect to be one of the fakers. |
Army officer | He was supposedly chasing after the gang and Dave Segal, trying to get their information on the alien's whereabouts. |
Ryan and Deb Trainor | They claimed to saw the alien the other night while they were camping in the forest. |
Warren Wallace | He claimed to have followed the alien and claimed he knew where it went to hide. |
Culprits[]
Culprit | Motive/reason |
---|---|
Everett T. Trusdale created a phony alien story Warren Wallace fooled his friends, the Trainors, on the camping trip with an inflatable alien. Army officer, an actor hired by Trusdale to help build up the story. |
Trusdale build up the circulation of his paper and hide that he was stealing money for himself. |
Notes/trivia[]
- This story reveals that Shaggy had a grandfather that served in the Korean War.
Reprints[]
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #56 (April 2015).
- ABDO had published it as 2 versioned book.
Coloring mistakes[]
- None known.
Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]
- None known.
Quotes[]
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