in animated form, with a seeming general avoidance from writers to ever attempt to use it, instead opting to just call them the Scooby Gang or the Scooby-Doo Gang. Following on from that, in the fourth film, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, they were both called Mystery Inc.

In 1988, when the gang appeared in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, they were called the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency, 'borrowed' from the team name used in The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (which had Scrappy-Doo, but largely no Fred or Velma).įinally in 1998, they were officially recognized in animated form for the first direct-to-video film, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, as Mystery Inc. In 1977, the Peter Pan read-a-long books called them both Mystery Incorporated and Mystery Inc., also the same year, comics published by Marvel Comics referred to them as Mystery Inc. In 1969, they were simply known as 'the gang,' with the designation of a proper name first appeared in 1973, on an LP called Scooby Doo and the Snowmen Mystery, when they were referred to as Mystery Incorporated. History Animated history Main article(s): Mystery Inc./animated history Apocryphal Comic history Main article(s): Mystery Inc./biographical account of comic appearances Novel history Main article(s): Mystery Inc./biographical account of novel appearances Video game history Main article(s): Mystery Inc./biographical account of video game appearances Appearances Associates For a complete list of Mystery Inc.'s associates, look here.

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