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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures is an American comic book series published by Archie Comics from 1988 to 1995. The series was aimed at a younger audience than other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics of the period, and ran for 72 issues, alongside annuals, specials, and miniseries.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures is an American comic book series published by Archie Comics from 1988 to 1995. The series was aimed at a younger audience than other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics of the period, and ran for 72 issues, alongside annuals, specials, and miniseries.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures debuted in August 1988 as a three-part miniseries and was aimed at a younger audience than Mirage Studios' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series. It initially adapted episodes from the 1987 animated television series, but by issue #5, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird handed the comic over to Mirage artists Ryan Brown and Stephen Murphy. Under their guidance, the series moved to original storylines, often incorporating social and environmentalist themes, and introduced several new characters. The main series ran for 72 issues, ending in October 1995; in addition, there were numerous annuals, specials and, miniseries. An ongoing spinoff series, Mighty Mutanimals, features a team of supporting characters.
Heroes in a Half Shell: Mini-series #1–3
This mini-series adapts the first five episodes of the 1987 TV series: "Turtle Tracks", "Enter the Shredder", "A Thing About Rats", "Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X", and "Shredder & Splintered". The Turtles team up with April O'Neil and confront Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady.
Issues #1–4
This issues adapt the second-season episodes of the animated series: "Return of the Shredder" and "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles". The Eye of Sarnath plot thread is developed in future issues, where it differs from the animated series.
Issues #5–11
Introduces fellow mutants, Man-Ray, Leatherhead, Wingnut and Screwloose (who later form the Mighty Mutanimals). This issues also introduce Cudley the Cowlick, Stump Asteroid and its intergalactic wrestling, the polluted Earth in the future. After returning from Stump Asteroid, the Turtles meet Wingnut and Screwloose who seek revenge on Krang for destroying their home planet Huanu, and later confront the Rat King. The Turtles battle the mutant villains, Wyrm and Scumbug, as well as the spy-turned-mutant, Chameleon. These issues offer different character origins and interpretations from those in the animated series.
Issues #12–13
The Turtles are recruited by Cherubae to battle the Malignoids, an alien, bug-like army sent out by Maligna. The battle is exploited by Stump Asteroid television. The Turtles are joined by Leatherhead, Wingnut and Screwloose, and other intergalactic wrestlers. Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady are connected with the alien threat, and Cherubae banishes them across the universe as punishment. Cherubae is revealed to be the sorceress who mutated Leatherhead. Then Leatherhead renounces his former role and becomes a wrestling idol on Stump Asteroid.
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Issues #14–18
The Turtles return to Earth just rescue April O'Neil from poachers in the Amazon rainforest. They are aided in their tropical adventures by Jagwar, Dreadmon, and Man-Ray. Upon their return to New York City, Mondo Gecko is introduced and joins the Turtles after he mutation complicates his relationship with his girlfriend, Candy Fine.
Issues #19–20
Evil businessman, Null, sends his alien lackeys, Scul and Bean, to attack the Turtles. The Turtles, Splinter, April, and Mondo Gecko are rescued by rats which Splinter summons to chew through their ropes. Having beaten Scul and Bean to a standstill, the aliens escape (but not before Raphael and Mondo can sneak aboard their spacecraft). Together with Man-Ray, Jagwar, Dreadmon, Leatherhead, Wingnut and Screwloose (the newly formed Mighty Mutanimals), Raph and Mondo defeat the alien warlord, Maligna (this arc overlaps with the events of Mighty Mutanimals mini-series #1–3). While Raphael is away fighting with the Mighty Mutanimals, the remaining Turtles meet Chu Hsi, a firefighter in Chinatown, New York City who is empowered with an ancient Warrior Dragon (popularly known as "Hothead") spirit after an old man tries to help him by throwing some mystic East Asian substance into a burning house where the firefighter tries to help a child. Together with their new ally they defeat a giant Foot robot, which is later revealed to have been a ruse by Shredder to get the Turtles to show themselves. The Warrior Dragon defeats the giant Foot robot by throwing it on the Statue of Liberty.
Issues #21–25
April O'Neil is revealed to have obtained competence with the katana sword under Splinter's instruction, and together they aid the Turtles in their battles against Vid Vicious and Shredder. Raphael returns to help defeat Shredder and aid his friends in the final fight with Krang, who has allied with Bellybomb to take possession of Shredder's body. The alien turtle Slash battles the Turtles for the first time. The Turtles remove Krang from Shredder's body and remind Shredder he owes them.
Issues #26–27
This storyline explores environmental political issues. In The Keeper, an extraterrestrial spacecraft lands in Tibet, and out comes Boss Salvage who abducts rare animals from the Earth, among them the Yeti T'Pau who searches help by Splinter. Boss Salvage also abducts the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and a merman. The reason is that he sees no future for them on the Earth because of pollution, but the Yeti persuades Boss Salvage that there still is hope, referring to all who are engaged in environmental politics. In In the Dark, animals are mutated after illegal industrial pollution in Innsmouth, Massachusetts and April makes a report about illegal pollution. She calls the turtles, and they also get help from the local teenage girl Beth Ann. The mutants want revenge on humanity, and poison the food with substances that put humans in a zombie-like state.
Mightnight Sun: Issues #28–30
Continued from the April O'Neil backup stories in issues #24–27, the Turtles, Splinter, and April travel to Japan (by stowing away aboard an airplane) to rescue Fu Sheng and Chu Hsi (
