TURTLEMANIA

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COVER: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird

First Printing: 1986

Regular Edition: 3,000 copies

Silver Edition: 100 copies signed by Eastman & Laird

Gold Edition: 10 copies signed by Eastman & Laird and included an original sketch on the back cover.

This item was not published by Mirage Studios, but we get a lot of questions about it, so here it is.

At the height of the Turtles' popularity in the direct sales comic book market, Robert Wilson (owner of Metropolis, a small comic shop chain in Florida) approached Kevin and Peter with the idea to do this limited edition tribute to the TMNT as a licensed product. Kevin and Pete agreed and sent Robert a bunch of stuff to publish.

Contents:

Turtletalk: A brief two page overview of Mirage Studios publishing history with print run information:

TMNT #1 (first printing) - 3,000

TMNT #1 (second printing) - 6,000

TMNT #1 (third printing) - 35,000

TMNT #1 (fourth printing) - 60,000

TMNT #2 (first printing) - 15,000

TMNT #2 (second printing) - 30,000

TMNT #3 (convention edition - I'll try to find info about this) - 500

TMNT #3 - 50,000

TMNT #4 - 60,000

TMNT #5 - 60,000

TMNT #6 - 65,000

TMNT #7 - 95,000

Gizmo - 32,000

Prime Slime Tales - 35,000

Fugitoid - 60,000

Michaelangelo micro-series - 60,000

Raphael micro-series - 60,000

Donatello micro-series - projected over 100,000

Gobbledygook #1 (1984) - 150

Gobbledygook #2 (1984) - 150

7 page TMNT Pin-Up Gallery

2 page Richard Corben TMNT Preview

1 page Rogues Gallery

TMNT/Flaming Carrot/Cerebus 2 page spread "pull-out poster" by Bob Burden

A 3 page Rogues Gallery

6 page TMNT/Cerebus preview from TMNT #8

4 page Donatello micro-series preview

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Raph pin-up by Kevin Eastman.
TMNT pin-up by Peter Laird.
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Casey Jones pin-up by Kevin.
Pencils from the Donatello micro series.
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Mirage Specials
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