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Kurtzburg Memorial Hospital is a health and recovery facility for "supers"—superheroes, aliens, and other irregular beings. It first appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue 2 (Volume 4). In the previous issue, Michelangelo was clipped by a bus and went unconscious. A superhero called Magnrok called for an air ambulance, which after he'd fallen out and been placed back into it by Raptarr, took him to Kurtzburg Memorial to get patched up.
The Turtles' ally Zippy Lad sits on the board of directors of the hospital. TMNT vol. 4 #2, #3
After his "first" death, Professor Obligado is interred in the Kurtzburg Memorial's morgue, where his memories are fed on by the Morto Mollucos. The Raisin'
Trivia[]
- The hospital's name is yet another reference to Jack Kirby, as his birth name was Jacob Kurtzberg. The Kurtzburg who the hospital is named after was said to be a "great visionary" and "in a way, the father of [us] all".