Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Volume 5

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #5

by Sholly Fisch, Darío Brizuela (Artist), Scott Jeralds (Artist)

Grab your Scooby Snacks and join writer Sholly Fisch (Teen Titans Go!) and artist Dario Brizuela (Green Lantern: The Animated Series) for a set of colorfully designed all-ages adventures starring the Scooby gang and your favorite characters in Scooby-Doo Team-Up Vol. 5!

 From Western bounty hunters to superheroes, everyone needs help from Mystery Inc.! Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred pack up the Mystery Machine and head to the hippie city of Karma Corners…and everything seems groovy until a group of ghostly parents forces the party to end! Can the team-assisted by Green Lantern and Green Arrow-find out what these guilt-causing ghosts truly want from the town? Then, Scooby and his friends learn more than just karate moves from Hong Kong Phooey when fire-breathing kung fu dragons take over a town.

 But the Mystery Inc. crew’s not done tackling cases just yet. When a fortune-teller makes Plastic Man’s sidekick Woozy Winks doubt his own fate, the gang investigates the wacky psychic’s claims! They meet Jonah Hex and the monster of the Old West, and run into Top Cat and his group of famous felines to find out just why Hoagy’s Alley is haunted. These meddling kids then clash with the Challengers of the Unknown, who think they can’t solve a real supernatural mystery! Will the teen sleuths prove the Challengers wrong and deliver the Mystic Elixir serum to the Gnome King?

 Collects Scooby-Doo Team-Up #25-30.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Comic Book, Childrens, Sequential Art

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 6, 2018

About the author

His credits run the gamut from Superman to Star Wars to Scooby-Doo, and from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser to Looney Tunes. His comics for kids have won a Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Award, and been nominated for an Eisner Award and two Diamond gem awards, while several of his stories for older readers were included in the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novels Action Comics.

Reviews

[Dan Schwent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Scooby Doo Team-Up Volume 5 collects issues #25-30 of Scooby-Doo Team-Up.

I'll just say right away that my least favorite of the team-ups in SDTU are the ones where the gang teams up with more cartoony characters like Quick Draw McGraw, or in the case of this volume, Top Cat and Hong Kong Phooey.

Now that the unpleasantness was done, this was another dose of all ages fun in these stressful times. The team ups with Green Arrow & Green Arrow, Jonah Hex, and the Challengers of the Unknown were a lot of fun. Sholly Fisch shows a lot of love for the various corners of the DC universe. You don't see the Challengers of the Unknown, The Secret Six, The Sea Devils, Cave Carson, and Rip Hunter in the same story very often.

Dario Brizuela's depiction of Jonah Hex was right up there with his depiction of The Phantom Stranger as one of my favorites of the series. As with past volumes, there are plenty of jokes and references to entertain the adults in the crowd, even though the stories are meant for a younger audience.

Scooby-Doo Team-Up volume 5 earns three out of five Scooby Snacks. Sholly Fisch shows more love to the Silver Age of the DC universe than the main line has in years.

[Diz · Rating 3 out of 5]

As in volume 4, there are a few too many stories that feature Hanna Barbera's silly animal characters. However, the Green Lantern/Green Arrow story and the Challengers stories are well worth a read.

[Bill Riggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

The quality is still top notch. Just plain fun to read entertainment. Keep writing them and I’ll keep reading them!

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

More team-up fun!

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scooby

I actually started this one a couple of days earlier. So technically it was last year's in my mind. But I finished it today so it's my 1st book of the new year. I'm a big fan of Scooby-Doo from the many many many years ago and so far I have read most of the stories in these team-ups that I have been reading through. So worth reading again today.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Green Lantern and Green Arrow story was really quite good, including a riff on Green Arrow villains. It really did hark back to the cartoon series.

We also get the story of how Daphne learned Kung-Fu.

I really love how much Daphne gets to do in the comics.

[Brandon · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you've read one volume of Scooby-Doo Team-Up, you've read them all. A lot of the gags and plots are pretty similar all-around with the only real difference between what guest characters are featured along side the Scooby gang. This volume has the creators digging deeper into the cast of Hanna-Barberra characters, meaning that there's less funny superhero continuity to rely on. Not as many cuts into superhero lore, less of a cohesive universe, and less crime-fighting to mix with the general Scooby-Doo cartoon comedy. Maybe this volume would be fine if you picked it up on its own, or if you were really into the Hanna-Barber cartoons and are just itching for anything featuring your favourite characters Top Cat and the Hong Kong Phooey, it would be better. But if this is the fifth volume you're picking up there's not a lot new here. Even stories like the Jonah Hex one feel like just a generic western tale. I'm not sure why I'm still reading this, maybe I'm just hoping that eventually there will be a stand-out issue- but it doesn't look like one is coming any time soon.

[Fraser Sherman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this book suffers from including so many Hanna-Barbera characters. The fun in this often comes from Fisch mining the details of character such as Green Arrow ("Scooby Doo you have failed this city!") or Cave Carson ("Didn't you have a cybernetic eye?"); Top Cat and Kong Fooey don't have enough material in their old TV shows to generate the same amusement. Still there are some very funny stories and I did like the evil realtor in one issue sneering at a ghost ("We learn how to fake ghosts the first day of real-estate class!").

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

More adventures with Scooby and the gang meeting up with several DC heroes, including Green Arrow and Green Lantern (the hard-travelling heroes), Quick-Draw McGraw, Challengers of the Unknown, etc.

Not as familiar with all of the Hanna-Babera characters. Fun, but I don't get all the nuances like I do with the DC superheroes.

Inventive storytelling, nice artwork, engaging for the whole family. Also, fun.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

I recently acquired the Kindle version for free on Amazon. I loved the cartoon as a kid, although the storylines are often cookie cutter, with the mysteries solved by accident. Additionally, I think cross-overs are usually pretty dumb, and I think this is the case here. The cross-overs feel really forced and the stories aren’t very interesting. The highest profile characters are Green Lantern, Hong Kong Phooey, and Top Cat. The artwork is great; it’s well drawn and nicely coloured.

[Chloe Dean · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Green Lantern/Green Arrow crossover team-up was really fun, good riffing on when they went to "Find America". I also enjoyed the Plastic Man and Top Cat (a childhood favourite) stories. I didn't know all of the crossover teams so didn't get those references but I still found the stories funny none the less.

[Jaime Guzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

More kid friendly adventures starring TV's favorite canine with special appearances by Green Lantern & Green Arrow, Hong Kong Phooey, Plastic Man, Top Cat, Jonah Hex, and The Challengers of the Unknown.
As a Hanna-Barbera fan I really enjoyed the HKP and TC issues.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much fun. Sholly Fisch is a legend and this comic is great.

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scooby Doo meets more heros.

Good color artwork. Dc comics freebie. 130 pages. Scooby doo has adventures with Saturday morning cartoon s like hong Kong phooie and Top Cat.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. This volume, the teams they collaborate with tend to be less well-known to me, but the mysteries might be a little better than the previous couple of volumes. Relaxing, not too taxing.

[John Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay collection of children’s comics that respects the history and characterizations of all the crossover characters.

[Karly Glauser · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this with my son and we really enjoyed these stories. My favorite had to be the one with Hong Kong Phooey. He has always been one of my favorite Hanna-Barbera characters.

[Jenn Palomino · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one was my least favorite of the team up collections. But that’s probably because the old timey cartoon character that show up in this one are super lame. Ruh roh Raggy.

[Stephen Theaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

The joke gets funnier each time. Pulling off masks, ascots, running away, and now Hong Kong Phooey failing to ever hit anything. If you'd given me this book as a child I'd have read it a hundred times.