Monster in My Pocket

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Monster in My Pocket is a franchise developed by the Morrison Entertainment Group and run by Joe Morrison and John Weems (two former Mattel senior executives ).

The focus is on monsters and mythical creatures from religion and mythology , fantasy and science fiction literature , cryptids and other paranormal phenomena . Monster in My Pocket produced trading card games , comics , books, toys, a board game, a video game, and an animation special, along with music, clothing, dragons , stickers, and various other items.

The line proved controversial for various reasons and many changes were pushed through that took it away from its original myth-oriented thought i.e. H. After the fourth series, the actual monsters were replaced by "vermin" ( Super Creepies ), dinosaurs and aliens, which therefore represented series 5, 6 and 7. In the latest edition in 2006 there were "real" monsters again, but the numbering (each monster had its own number) was not continued, but figures from the first series were taken and redesigned.

It is not to be confused with Pocket Monsters , the Japanese name for Pokémon (which was the planned name for this franchise).

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Monster in My Pocket was released by Matchbox in 1990. They were small, soft plastic figures in different colors, which represented monsters and other, thematically similar beings.

In the first edition, eleven series were published, the third is the rarest. There were over 200 monsters in the collection, most of which were assigned a point value. Among the monsters with the highest scores there were e.g. B. the Etruscan deity Charun with 100 points, among those with the lowest for example Invisible Man with only 5 points. Initially, i.e. H. in the first series, the highest point value was 25. However, this increased from series to series, so for the second (Monster # 49-72) and in the third (# 73-96) 30 points was the highest value, to finally the fourth series (# 97-120) introduced the 100-point monster.

Monster in My Pocket in other media

The earliest Monster in My Pocket articles were trading cards illustrated by Jan Sheets and Jenice Heo , released in 1990 with no credit other than Morrison Entertainment Group. The pictures from Sheets and Heo were also used for other materials, for example for the sticker album by Panini , or for a picture book that was published in German by Xenos .

There was a comic book written by Dwayne McDuffie and drawn primarily by Gil Kane and Ernie Colon , which was published in the US in 1991 by Harvey Comics . There were four issues that appeared every two months; despite the open ending and promises that sales warrant a monthly expense, the series has been discontinued.

A video game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) by Konami . It had largely the same concept as the comic, although Hobgoblin and Gremlin , for example , who had initially supported the good monsters in the comic, now appeared as villains; Gremlin was even a boss . The video game included the monster Blemmyae as an exclusive figure, which belongs to the third series. This was the only figure in the third series that was available in Europe.

List of monsters

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