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In this version? They all wore red bandannas, which also hinted at the fact that they were mutant red-eared sliders. No version of TMNT color-coded the turtles with different color bandannas until the 1987 TV series. In this original comic, which is in black and white anyway, you only saw the red color of their bandannas in full-color cover artwork, and in the comics pages themselves, you were expected to tell the turtles apart by their weapons.

As Donatello makes clear in this scene from TMNT volume 4: