The Complete History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If you were a kid in the 1. DNA. To make sure I got the scoop on everyones favorite pizza obsessed heroes in a half shell, I went straight to the sourceco creator Peter Lairdwho was kind enough to answer our burning questions about the franchise. If youre looking for a thorough history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this is a pretty good place to start. From a Simple Sketch. Struggling artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were living in Northampton, Massachusetts, when they came up with the Turtles in November 1. As a joke, Eastman drew a turtle standing on its hind legs, wearing a mask, with nunchucks strapped to its arms. Eastman wrote Ninja Turtle on the top of the page. Laird laughed and then drew a more refined version of the turtle. Not to be outdone, Eastman drew four turtles, each armed with a ninja style weapon. Laird outlined the group shot in ink and added Teenage Mutant to the Ninja Turtles title. As Eastman and Laird began fleshing out the Turtles to create a comic book, they had to give the Turtles names. At first they tried Japanese names, but it just wasnt working. So they tried great Renaissance artists instead Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo. Laird told me, It felt just quirky enough to fit the concept. In May 2. Turtles sold at auction for 7. The Daredevil Connection. There are many aspects of the Turtles that are a nod to Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil. For example, Splinter, the Turtles father figure and sensei, is an homage to Daredevils sensei, Stick. The Foot Clan is a take off of the ninja clan in Daredevil known as The Hand. Print Artist 22 Kostenlos. However, the coolest connection is that the Turtles and Daredevil seem to share the same origin story. In Daredevil 1, Matt Murdoch sees a truck barreling down on an old man, so Murdoch knocks the man out of the way. As the truck swerves, a canister flies out the back and strikes Murdoch in the face. The canister is filled with a radioactive substance, which blinds Murdoch, but enhances his other senses to super human levels. Later, he uses his heightened senses to fight crime as Daredevil. For the Turtles origin, the same scenario plays out, except the canister bounces off the boys head and smashes into a bowl of baby turtles, who fall, along with the canister, into an open manhole. Splinter finds the turtles crawling around in a viscous fluid seeping out of the broken canister, which is the mutagen that turns the Turtles and Splinter into human sized heroes. First Times a Charm. In March 1. 98. 4, Eastman and Laird created a new company, Mirage Studios, so named because there was no actual studio other than Lairds living room. Then, Eastman used his 5. Laird emptied his bank account of 2. Eastmans uncle to print 3,0. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. After printing costs, they had just enough money left to run an ad in Comics Buyers Guide Magazine, an industry publication. Thanks to that one ad, comic distributors across the country started calling, and Mirage sold all 3,0. With more orders coming in, they printed another 6,0. By May, theyd made enough money to pay back Eastmans uncle and split a roughly 2. Although the comic was meant to be a one shot, a single issue, self contained story, they realized they might be on to something. So, in January 1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ist eine USamerikanische computeranimierte Fernsehserie, die auf den gleichnamigen Comics von Kevin Eastman und Peter Laird basiert. A description of tropes appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Heroes in the HalfShell. The Green Dudes with Attitudes. COWABUNGA, DUDES Indie. Dave Sims character Cerebus, a barbarian aardvark. The first issue of the comic originally sold for 1. Small Business Server 2003 Iso. But if youre looking for a first print copy of TMNT 1 today, itll cost you in the neighborhood of 2,5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade 1989' title='Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade 1989' />The Comic Books. TMNT ran under the Mirage Studios banner from 1. Archie Comics used the cartoon Turtles for 7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, which ran from 1. The Mirage Turtles moved to Image Comics in 1. While at Image, the series took some odd turns Splinter became a bat, Donatello changed into a cyborg, Leonardo lost a hand, and Raph became the new Shredder. When Peter Laird brought the Turtles back to Mirage in 2. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Originaltitel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ist eine USamerikanische Zeichentrickserie, die auf den gleichnamigen Comics von Kevin. Played by kireev20000 April ONeil, the reporter friend of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is kidnapped by the villainous. Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss. Image years and they are no longer considered part of the TMNT canon. His new series ran until 2. Although the series was not officially concluded, Laird has no immediate plans to publish more. August 2. IDW has been running a new TMNT comic, featuring artwork from co creator Kevin Eastman. Going Soft. The original Mirage comic book really wasnt made for youngsters. The Turtles diced up enemies while spouting the occasional curse word, and one of the Turtles allies was hockey mask wearing vigilante Casey Jones, who beat down even low level crooks with baseball bats and hockey sticks. But when Playmates Toys expressed interest in producing TMNT action figures in 1. PG 1. 3 attitude wouldnt fit Playmates 4 8 year old target audience. In addition, part of Playmates marketing was an animated cartoon, which had to pass television censors. So to make the Turtles viable for the younger set, the Turtles had to soften up. Among other changes, the Turtles became wise cracking jokers obsessed with pizza, the Shredder became a typical bumbling cartoon villain, members of the Foot Clan were now robots so parents wouldnt complain that the Turtles were too violent, and instead of Damn, the Turtles shouted easily marketable catchphrases like, Turtle Power and CowabungaPerhaps the most defining change was the Turtles costumes. In the comic, the interior artwork was in black and white, but the color covers showed the Turtles all wearing red masks the only way to tell them apart was by their specialty weapon. In an effort to de emphasize the weapon as identifier, each character was given his own signature color, displayed on the mask and elbowknee pads blue for Leonardo, orange for Michelangelo, red for Raphael, and purple for Donatello. Aula Internacional 1 Free. In addition, they wore belt buckles with their first initial. Difficult Decisions. As owners of the franchise, Eastman and Laird had the final say on changes to their creations. However, neither of them was thrilled about the concessions made. As Eastman said in a 1. The Comics Journal, The resolution at the end of the day, even when Pete and I both agreed that, well, theres some stuff we really dont like, and some stuff that we wish we hadnt said yes to, stuff that they wanted to doBut we saidwell always have our black and white comics to tell the kind of stories we want to tell. To this day Laird makes no bones about how unhappy he is with many aspects of the softened Turtles. In March 2. 01. 2, Laird said this on his blog had I again, speaking solely for myself and not for Kevin been making the key creative decisions for that first animated series, it would have been VERY different. Among other things, there would likely have been no moronic henchmen like Bebop and Rocksteady. The Shredder would have been seriously malevolent. April would not have been a reporter and constantly need to be rescued by the Turtles. The Turtles would not have been so ridiculously obsessed with pizza, and the Shredder would not have had as one of his businesses a restaurant called Ninja PizzaAnd the show would not have had a joke or gag every five seconds. The Cartoons. Before Playmates would commit to a full toyline for the Turtles, they tested the waters with a five part cartoon mini series. It debuted in December 1. Once it gained traction, Playmates ordered more episodes, and the show stayed on the air from 1. The show featured the voice work of many top performers.