Inkworks | Scooby-Doo Mysteries & Monsters Trading Cards

RALEIGH, NC – February, 2003 – Scooby-Doo™ is known and loved worldwide. Inkworks now brings Scooby-Doo to trading card collectors with a mystery and monster filled 72-card premium quality set that will be released on February 26, 2003. The base set includes: Monsters, Episode Summaries, Behind the Scenes, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and the gang as well as interactive mystery-solving cards and lots of trivia.

Scooby-Doo is more popular now than ever. In the U.S. Scooby-Doo airs on two networks, Kids’ WB! And Cartoon Network, covering nearly twenty hours of programming per week and reaching over 33 million viewers weekly. Around the world, Scooby-Doo is shown in fifteen languages and is available in more than 150 million households. Scooby-Doo is a ratings performer with top ten rated programs among younger viewers.

Jinkies! The 72-card base set of trading cards isn’t all that Scooby-Doo fans can get. Inkworks offers a special Hobby-exclusive “Collectors Edition” that gives collectors the chance to find several great levels of specially created, randomly inserted bonus cards including:

SKETCH CARDS – Individually hand-drawn and numbered sketches by nine favorite comic book artists: Dan Fraga, Chynna Clugston-Major, Tone Rodriguez, Christine Norrie, Bill O’Neill, Mario Gully, David Crosland, John Stangeland, and Rod Deleon. Each sketch card is a one-of-a-kind work of art. More information on these artists and examples of some of the sketches can be found on the Inkworks web site at www.inkworkscards.com. (Nine different artists, Appx. odds 1:85 packs).

AUTOGRAPHED CARDS – Six different autographed cards from some of the original Scooby-Doo voice actors: Casey Kasem (voice of Shaggy), Tim Conway (voice of himself), Susan Blu (voice of
Flim Flam), Frank Welker (voice of Fred Jones & Scooby-Doo), Heather (Kenney) North (voice of Daphne), and Nicole (Jaffe) David (voice of Velma). (Six different cards, Appx. odds 1:62 packs).

SCOOBY-DOO STICKER CARDS – Nine sticker cards that are fun to play with and fun to collect – one in each pack. (Nine different sticker cards – Appx. odds 1:1 pack).

SCOOBY-DOO SPARKLY CARDS – Six cards featuring groovy foil effects. (Six different cards – Appx. odds 1:7 packs).

PLUS – Four different special BOX LOADER cards and one special CASE LOADER card. (Four different box loader cards – Odds one card per display box. One case loader card – Odds one card per case).

Hobby-exclusive “Collectors Edition” Scooby-Doo Mysteries and Monsters trading card packs contain seven collector cards plus one sticker card and have a suggested retail price of $2.99 each. Display boxes contain 24 packs and cases contain 12 boxes. Inkworks guarantees that each sealed display box will contain at least one complete, defect-free base set and will gladly replace any damaged cards or replace any cards missing from the base set.
A Scooby-Doo Mysteries & Monsters Collector Album, featuring a die-cut top in the shape of Scooby-Doo, has been created to hold these cards and sticker cards. It has a suggested retail price of $19.95.

Inkworks is an award-winning entertainment trading card manufacturer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Current Inkworks licenses include Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Roswell, Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, The X-Files, Smallville, The Osbournes, Charmed and JLA. For the 2003 product release schedule, more information on Inkworks products or to find out how to get free collector cards, please visit the Inkworks web site at www.inkworkscards.com.

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