Scooby-Doo is a mystery horror-comedy franchise created by Hanna-Barbera. It centers around Mystery Inc., a group of four mystery-solving teens and their dog, who work together to catch monsters and ghosts criminals in costumes.
History
The first series; Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and was broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, until it moved to ABC. Scooby-Doo was designed by the animator Iwao Takamoto, which also designed a great majority of other characters for Walt Disney and Hanna-Barbera.
Since 1972, there have been several crossovers between Scooby-Doo and other franchises, such as DC Comics; starting with Scooby-Doo Meets Batman. In 1997, DC acquired the rights to publish comics based on Hanna-Barbera characters and began publishing a monthly Scooby-Doo comic book.
In 2013, DC began a digital bi-monthly comic book titled Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, crossing over Mystery Inc. with other DC and Hanna-Barbera characters. In 2016, DC launched a new monthly comic book entitled Scooby Apocalypse, with the characters being reinvented in a story set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy made a non-speaking cameo in the Teen Titans Go! episode "I See You". Scooby along with the Mystery Inc. later appears in the crossover episode "Cartoon Feud", where Control Freak forces them to compete in the Family Feud game.
In the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "What a Night, for a Dark Knight!", it is revealed that Daphne Blake is Alfred Pennyworth's niece. In the comics, Alfred already had a niece named Daphne Pennyworth in the Earth-One continuity.
Media
Licensed comics
- Cartoon Network Presents (Volume 1)
- Scooby-Doo (Volume 1)
- Scooby-Doo! Spooky Spectacular #1
- Scooby-Doo! Spooky Spectacular 2000 #1
- Scooby-Doo! Spooky Summer Special #1
- Scooby-Doo! Super Scarefest #1
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (Volume 1)
- Scooby-Doo! Team-Up (Volume 1)
- Scooby Apocalypse (Volume 1)
Crossovers
- Scooby-Doo Meets Batman
- Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!
- Scooby-Doo! Team-Up (Volume 1)
- Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
- What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
- One Minute Mysteries!
- The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries (Volume 1)
- The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries (Volume 2)
- The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries (Volume 3)
- Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
- Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
Notes
- In the Wildstorm Universe, the Liberty Snots used to play in a TV series called the Tranquiliteens.
- The character Punchichi was based on Scooby's nephew, Scrappy-Doo.
Trivia
- The five main characters have been played by various actors, several of whom also worked on DC projects.
- Daphne Blake: Mary Kay Bergman, Grey DeLisle, Emily Tennant, Kellie Martin
- Fred Jones: Frank Welker, Robbie Amell, Chris Cox, Jim Wise
- Norville "Shaggy" Rogers: Casey Kasem, Billy West, Scott Menville, Matthew Lillard
- Scooby-Doo: Don Messick, Frank Welker
- Velma Dinkley: B.J. Ward, Mindy Cohn, Linda Cardellini, Kate Micucci
- Scooby-Doo is the longest-running U.S. animated franchise produced for Saturday morning television. In 2013, TV Guide ranked it as the fifth-greatest TV cartoon of all time.
See Also
- Characters from Scooby-Doo
- Other things related to Scooby-Doo
- Scooby-Doo's Comic Appearances
- Reality Gallery: Scooby-Doo