The Ghosts of Scooby Doo
As it had been with comic books, what attracted me to Scooby Doo were the
villains. Not their motivations, certainly (which was the same for
all: scare off any interference in their money-making schemes), but their
appearances, their design. When Scooby Doo premiered, the superhero
cartoons that had followed on the heels of Batmania were mostly gone, so
where else on TV could I get my villain fix?
While I tired of the Scooby Doo story formula, the variety of "ghosts"
on the show kept me tuning in semi-regularly. And I was pleased to
note that, while the first Scooby Doo movie was at heart about the gang
in the Mystery Machine, the second one was undeniably about the ghosts.
So I certainly wasn't the only ghost fan in the audience.
I'm still not enough of a Scooby Doo fan to own any of the episodes,
but there are enough others who do own them for me to leech off of their
work. The info on the seasons and episodes comes from a variety of
fan sites. The ghosts herein are drawn by me as Microheroes -- figures
with bobble-head-sized heads, presumably to better show off facial detail
-- using a variety of sources: a Scooby Doo deck of playing cards, the
SD trading card game, the mock-up SD "expansion" for Chaosium's Mythos
trading card game, and the SD fan site on Toonzone, from which the background
images also came.
Season 1, 1969-1970: Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
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What a Night for a Knight
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A Clue for Scooby Doo
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Hassle in the Castle
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The Black Knight
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Captain Cutler's Ghost
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The Phantom of Vasquez Castle
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Mine Your Own Business
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Decoy for a Dognapper
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What the Hex Going On?
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The Miner 49er
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The Shaman
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Elias Kingston
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Never Ape an Ape Man
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Foul Play in Funland
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The Backstage Rage
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The Ape Man
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The Man from Mars
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The Phantom Puppeteer
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Bedlam in the Big Top
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A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
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A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
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The Ghost Clown
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The Gypsy
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Count Dracula
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A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
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A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
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Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
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The Wolf Man
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Frankenstein's Monster
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The Mummy
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