Mirage Released January 1984

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an issue of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series from Mirage, released January 1, 1984. Written by Peter Laird with artwork by Kevin Eastman. Notable appearances include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This page represents the regular first-print edition.

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Published January 1984

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  • 40-page printer's proof of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (1984)
  • A printer's proof is a sample that is printed to examine the correctness of the issue before printing the entire run
  • This one-of-a-kind, historical proof was found in a small print shop in Biddeford, Maine a few years after the publication of issue #1, after the Turtles had already exploded in popularity
  • The men who found it traded it to Downeast Comics which operated between the years of 1986 - 1994, in Brunswick, Maine
  • The owner paid for the proof with store stock and held onto it before auctioning it on Comic Link in 2020 for $12,472 with 77 bids

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles variant cover
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