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Mark Evanier on Origins of Scrappy Doo, Part 2

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Mark Evanier has posted the second chapter on his weblog describing the creation of Scrappy Doo. He describes the Warner Brothers animated character who was the unstated inspiration for Scrappy and digresses briefly into the origins of another Hanna-Barbera animated character before concluding with his successful scripting job that got Scooby Doo renewed for another season, ending with the tantalizing statement, “Little did I know my troubles were only starting.”

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