Talk:April O'Neil (Rise of the TMNT)/@comment-43808533-20191225183809/@comment-995426-20200102024103

Sorry, there was no red-haired April before Murakami-Wolf-Swenson.
 * The Mirage comics, with very few exceptions, had no color in the pages, and April's hair usually appeared dark.
 * Of the various colorized versions of comics, only issues created by Mirage staff and colored or color-supervised by Mirage staff (such as the First Comics reprints) have what can be considered canonical colors. The more recent IDW-published colorized Mirage reprints had their colors outsourced to other studios, apparently on the cheap, and could have some extremely off-model colors.
 * In the First Comics colorized version of TMNT vs. the Mousers (April's first issue), her hair was colored brown.
 * When she got her new perm two issues later in Rescuing Master Splinter, her hair appeared black or dark brown.
 * On the cover of True Stories where April is prominently shown in color, her hair was a very dark brown.
 * On the cover of A Tale of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original comic version of Cousin Sid), her hair is not only black, but blue-shaded.
 * On the cover of The Unmentionables, her hair is completely black.
 * On the cover of Sons of the Silent Age (Mirage), April and the story's fishwoman character are shown composited together. The April half of the face has completely black hair that shines brownish where it is reflected by the sun.
 * On the cover of The Proposal, April's hair appears black or dark brown with brownish highlights, appearing even darker than Casey's hair.
 * Maybe one or two stories by guest artists, like The Mother of All Anger, show April with light hair, but I think this is more the case of this story having no real shading, and April's hair appears as white as everything else not completely obscured by black shadows.