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Last summer DC made the kindle version of hundreds of Scooby-Doo comics available for free.  The titles included Scooby-Doo Team Up, Scooby-Doo, and Scooby-Doo Where are you?.    Diving in and out of the various issues and series was nice, and in many ways during the pandemic, a nice comforting read.  In some ways, the issues were not only a fun trip down memory lane but also pleasantly surprising.

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              For instance most of the issues I read, gave Velma and Daphne larger roles and fleshed them out more.  Velma, for instance, not only gets a special section in some of the comics where she details the folklore of various countries or peoples.  Additionally, there is story in Scooby-Doo 41 where Velma is hero worshipped by a version of the girl scouts.  She even actually dresses in other clothes.  Daphne too gets more time as well as becoming a master in Kung Fu.  There are several stories where the girls work together, including one where they team up with the Birds of Prey (Scooby Doo Team Up Vol 6) and anther where they visit Paradise Island to team up with Wonder Woman and Nubia (Scooby Team Up vol 1).

               While Shaggy and Scooby are featured, they are not the central characters they are in the cartoons, and the other characters are given a chance to shine.  This includes a detailed list of what the gang is studying in school.  There is even a great story in the Team Up volumes where all different versions of the Gang team up.

          

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     The comics make good use of various legends and myths.  But there are some good stories featuring the team on trial, at a convention, as well as a visit to Stephen King (Scooby Doo 46) and a homage to Sherlock Holmes and Basil Rathbone (Scooby Doo34).  There are more than a few issues that make good use of Shakespeare (Scooby-Doo Where are You 76 and 49 in particular). 

               There is a strange feeling to Scooby-Doo #52 where the gang has to solve the mystery of a Confederate Ghost, and there is a sense of romanticizing or bypassing the cause of the Civil War  that doesn’t quite sit right, to be honest.  Yet, in the issue Scooby-Doo Where Are You #66 where the gang visits the White House and is aided by a Dr Hemings.