Michelangelo is one of the Ninja Turtles in the 1990 Ladies' Home Journal comic Twas the Fight Before Christmas. He is in the Turtle Lair with the other turtles, Splinter and April O'Neil when Raphael arrives and call for help to defeat the thugs robbing the Little Girl.
Michelangelo and the other Turtles track down the punks, knock them out, and find stacks of stolen goods. Dressing as Santa Claus', with Splinter as a reindeer and April as Mrs. Claus, the group goes about returning all of the stolen items.