Mirage – Turtlemania Special #1

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

Master Splinter

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