Hanna-Barbera Scooby Doo... Mystery Comics #28

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The Ancient Astronaut Script by Vic Lockman Artwork and cover by Dan Spiegle Scooby and the gang are at the Museum of Ancient Art, when an Egyptian sarcophagus begins to cough and smoke. The curator, Mr. Hadley, arrives to extinguish it, but it turns out to be a self-destructing tape recorder. Meanwhile, thieves have made off with an Axtakl artifact called the Ancient Astronaut. Clues point to the thieves returning with the artifact to Axtakl, so the museum offers to fly the gang down to Central America to retrieve it. There, they find the Ancient Astronaut on top of the largest pyramid temple. Fred notices the nose of the ship is pointing at a small lake where they see two men in a small raft. They climb down from the temple, but the men are nowhere in sight. As Scooby swims out to the raft, two men in diving suits surface. Scooby subdues the attackers. Fred and Shaggy tie them up to be turned over to the Axtakl authorities, who hire the gang to dive and search for the treasure the thieves were after. Curse of the Wishing Well Written by Mark Evanier Artwork by Dan Spiegle The gang decides to volunteer for Jackie Jacobs' World Children's Fund Telethon. The money collected is dumped into a genuine Scottish wishing well, which is supposedly cursed by a demon. The money, of course, falls through a trap door in the floor and is collected in the basement. While Shaggy tries to get Scooby to perform his trained dog act, two thugs -- Munger and Gruber -- prepare to steal the money when it hits $250,000. The two gag and bind a guard in the basement, and Munger emerges from the well wearing a demon suit. Fred, Shaggy and Scooby race down to the basement, but the money has been vacuumed out of the storage room. The guard is able to give a description of their rented getaway van, and Fred, Shaggy and Scooby chase them down in the Mystery Machine. The two thieves get away, but the stolen money is recovered -- or so it seems. However, when Daphne tries to buy coffee for Jacobs with a twenty dollar bill from the well, the bill turns out to be counterfeit. Scooby and the gang search the T.V. studio from top to bottom and discover the real money in a closet, where the thieves had hoped to retrieve it later when everyone thought the money had been returned and were no longer searching for it.