Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25020257-20141128230841/@comment-25826554-20150221005811

It was revealed that Ivan Steranko and Shredder were old friends and had known each other for about 10 years. Whether or not he was selling weapons to Shredder just to learn more about his helmet, the Kuro Kabuto, I don't know... but he was a huge collector of all sorts of things, and the Purple Dragons knew he'd show interest in the Mystic Dagger. So I don't think he was selling weapons to Shredder to get the Kabuto, but he obviously ended up showing intrest in it.