COVER: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
First Printing: 1986
Regular Edition: 3,000 copies
Silver Edition: 100 copies signed by Eastman & Laird
Gold Edition: 10 copies signed by Eastman & Laird and included an original sketch on the back cover.
This item was not published by Mirage Studios, but we get a lot of questions about it, so here it is.
At the height of the Turtles’ popularity in the direct sales comic book market, Robert Wilson (owner of Metropolis, a small comic shop chain in Florida) approached Kevin and Peter with the idea to do this limited edition tribute to the TMNT as a licensed product. Kevin and Pete agreed and sent Robert a bunch of stuff to publish.
Contents:
A tribute to the TMNT featuring artwork by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Bob Burden and Dave Sim
Turtletalk: A brief two page overview of Mirage Studios publishing history with print run information:
TMNT #1 (first printing) – 3,000
TMNT #1 (second printing) – 6,000
TMNT #1 (third printing) – 35,000
TMNT #1 (fourth printing) – 60,000
TMNT #2 (first printing) – 15,000
TMNT #2 (second printing) – 30,000
TMNT #3 (convention edition – I’ll try to find info about this) – 500
TMNT #3 – 50,000
TMNT #4 – 60,000
TMNT #5 – 60,000
TMNT #6 – 65,000
TMNT #7 – 95,000
Gizmo – 32,000
Prime Slime Tales – 35,000
Fugitoid – 60,000
Michaelangelo micro-series – 60,000
Raphael micro-series – 60,000
Donatello micro-series – projected over 100,000
Gobbledygook #1 (1984) – 150
Gobbledygook #2 (1984) – 150
7 page TMNT Pin-Up Gallery
2 page Richard Corben TMNT Preview
1 page Rogues Gallery
TMNT/Flaming Carrot/Cerebus 2 page spread “pull-out poster” by Bob Burden
A 3 page Rogues Gallery
6 page TMNT/Cerebus preview from TMNT #8
4 page Donatello micro-series preview