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Haverhill teen designs Yu-Gi-Oh! card
By Nathan Hurst, Globe Correspondent
Oh, what a design! A Haverhill teen has won a national contest to design a new cartoon figure.
Adam Valente, 14, won in the 13-to-17-year-old category of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Design Your Destiny Card Contest held by 4Kids Entertainment, the company that provides weekend morning children's cartoons for Fox Network affiliates.
Valente's entry was one of more than 16,000 entries received by 4Kids.
He and the winners of two other age categories were honored with a public announcement on Fox earlier today. He'll also get a Yu-Gi-Oh! video game.
Valente's drawing will appear on a new trading card, part of an upcoming release of Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards, set to hit stores this November.
Yu-Gi-Oh! began as a print comic strip in Japan in the late 1990s and soon became an international children's TV hit, complete with its own line of toys, cards, and other merchandise.
