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Teenage mutant ninja turtles 1984 the turtles are cornered by the purple dragon gang and a fight erupts. Read teenage mutant ninja turtles 1984 comic online free and high quality. His first published work appeared in 1980, a year or so before he met peter laird. The original series that introduced the turtles to the world.
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Teenage mutant ninja turtles tmnt, comicbook series about a quartet of humanlike warrior turtles. No other comic book from the past 25 years has had a greater overall impact on the hobby and on popular entertainment than this first issue from 1984. The minecraft skin, tmnt all of the turtles 1984, was posted by sonofdora. Eastman and lairds teenage mutant ninja turtles premiered in may 1984, at a comic book convention held at a local sheraton hotel in portsmouth, new hampshire. Teenage mutant ninja turtles fiction database wiki fandom. The concept arose from finding them and drawing a humorous sketch by kevin eastman during a casual evening of outdoors with his friend peter laird. Below is the first concept sketch of all four teenage mutant ninja turtles from 1983 by.