The adaptation of the first Turtles movie.
Appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[]
Major Characters[]
- April O'Neil (debut)
- Casey Jones (debut)
- Daniel Pennington (debut)
- Donatello (debut) (mutates in flashback)
- Foot Ninja (debut)
- Leonardo (debut) (mutates in flashback)
- Michelangelo (debut) (mutates in flashback)
- Raphael (debut) (mutates in flashback)
- Shredder (debut)
- Splinter (debut) (mutates in flashback)
- Tatsu (debut)
Minor Characters[]
- Charles Pennington (debut)
- Chief Sterns (debut)
- Hamato Yoshi (debut) (flashback only) (death)
- Oroku Nagi (debut) (flashback only) (death)
- Shinsho (debut) (death)
- Tang Shen (debut) (flashback only) (death)
Species[]
Synopsis[]
Mirage Studios' adaptation of the first TMNT movie from New Line Cinema/Golden Harvest.
Editions[]
IDW cover
- Black and white, 62 pages, bonus pages, published by Mirage.
- Prestige edition, painted colors by Steve Lavigne, no bonus pages, published by Archie Comics.
- Newsstand edition, flat colors by Barry Grossman, no bonus pages, published by Archie Comics.
- On September 16, 2014, IDW Publishing released an updated version titled TMNT Original 1990 Motion Picture Special Edition with new digital colors, all the bonus pages from the Mirage Edition and Kevin Eastman’s original layouts and notes.
Differences between movie and comic[]
- The comic adaptation features several scenes that were shot but cut from the film: the Turtles emerging shell-first from water at the beginning (later re-instated in the second movie), the Shredder beating up some Foot soldiers that have failed him, the extended training sequence on the farm, and the original ending. There are also many differences in dialogue, most of which have may been altered due to the limited number of pages in the comic.
Notes[]
- The comic has also translated in Traditional Chinese and released in Taiwan, with short Chinese pages about the information of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and the film, and as well as the characters, and as well as Nestle advertisements and as well as the Nestle sponsored coloring page with Turtles drinking the Nespray milk.[1]
- The black-and-white Mirage edition of the comic has several full-page drawings mixed into the comic that are absent from the color editions. All three editions of the book have different cover art.
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