Letters Page

We always received tons of mail for TMNT Adventures. We read every letter and tried to publish all that we could. Take a moment to click the letters pages above and relive those wacky, bygone days! Did any of you write us a letter?

Armaggon Attacks!

Commissions from fans are always fun and we enjoy doing them when we get the chance. They give us the opportunity to work together just like back in the old days! While most requests are for the TMNT, once in a while we get to do other characters from Mirage Studio's vast array of characters. This time it's Armaggon and it's for David. Above are the blue pencils!

TMNT Mutant Universe Poster

We think it would be great to reprint this poster for the 25th celebration!

No Brainer

Another unpublished cover of Leo swimming in brain fluid. This one was for TMNTA #65.

Cyber Samurai Turtles Cover

We can't remember why this cover for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #63 was rejected, but rejected it was!

Storm Drain Savers Reprint

A few weeks ago Murph asked if Steve and I could reproduce this TMNTA cover for an Australian reprint of the mini-comic, "Storm Drain Savers." No problem! Here it is.

Get your copy today!

Cryin' Hound

One character from the TMNT Adventures got closer to being an action figure than anybody else.
Cryin' Hound made it to the "sculptural input drawing stage" but I'm afraid that's where he stayed.

What Do We Know?

Back in the day Murph and I tried relentlessly to get Playmates to do
something, anything from the TMNT Adventures book. But there was real resistance to our ideas at every turn.

One thing we pushed hard was the "wrestling turtles" --
actual legit early Pete and Kev designs. Playmates was pumping out every conceivable turtle variant they could think of except the one that Murph and I thought made the most sense -- the wrestling turtles! Oh well, what do we know, we're
just artists.

Would you have bought Archie "wrestling turtle" figures?

The Dean Clarrain Exposé

Summer:1989. The archie book is in utter chaos and on serious brink of
breach of contract. I get the idea to take over the title and dump the
adaptions for new,original stories that meld the Mirage TMNTs with the
animated TMNT and combine the best of both worlds. But I can't do it alone
so before approaching Kev and Pete I go to new-found friend Steve Murphy and
discuss my plans with him and ask if he'd be interested in writing it. He's
reluctant. I explain what a great opportunity this is. He's mum. I force the
issue with him. He's totally emersed in THE PUMA BLUES and all of it's DAVE
SIM, DIAMOND controversy at the moment. Threats are made, arms are twisted
and I berate him until he caves! His only stipulation... that he write
under a pseudonym. We move forward with a story about a new character I've
just created in honor of, and based upon, him! Steve Murphy!! (more on that in a later post)
We pull it all together post haste and approach the Dynamic Duo. They are
ecstatic. We get their blessing, hoo-rah! With time fleeting and everything
due "yesterday" , we hit the ground running trying to catch up to a mess of
already missed deadlines and a totally insane schedule looming on the
horizon. We try to cover all the bases, the cowabungas, the pizzas, the
constant pressure from Playmates to make every damn panel on every
frickin' page a toy commercial. Dire jeopardy reins, but with sleepless
nights, hard work and lots of mountain dew we get The New Direction to the
creative team and history is made...the triumphant issue five of Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures!!

Who Can We Turn To...

...now that the Mighty Mutanimals are dead?



They lay bathed in black blood. Archie would not allow it to be colored red.

Mondo Metal

I don't know if any of you guitar heroes remember this or not, but did any of you actually play the song by Mondo Gecko's band, Merciless Slaughter, transcribed between the panels of Archie TMNT Adventures #18 ?

Look Familiar ?

The inspiration for the Man Ray shirt?

P Donnie

Here's P Donnie from the Archie Adventure "Sun and Steel". This issue features one of our favorite characters Chu Hsi.

Gentleman Gene"The Dean" Colan

I'd have to say my favorite issue of the Adventures title would be issue 22. That's because Gentleman Gene Colan drew it!
These pages are special because my characters Vid Vicious and Warrior Dragon are on them.

Old Art

A drawing I found in a box of old papers from my studio space in the old Cutlery building in Florence. I threw in some color for fun.

Wrestle Mania!

Behold the painting that started it all. (Well, at least the wrestling turtles.) This is the art that Murph and I thought was too important to be left buried in Pete's studio
and should be seen, which is why we wound up using the designs for the Intergalactic Wrestling TMNT in the Archie series!

Historically, though, these are the costumes Pete and Kev designed for the turtles before they decided to garb them in their familiar
red bandanas, and elbow and knee pads.

The painting is 20" by 30" . Sorry for the bad picture. Didn't want to take it out of the frame. Lazy.

I think these should be a part of the official Mirage canon.

So here's the question...

Should these costumes be canon to the Mirage Universe ?

Wingnut

The cool thing about a blog is that you can see stuff you might never have seen before. Such as this very early Wingnut conceptual art. Bearing quite a resemblence to a certain caped crusader. Some of these elements showed up in the Ralston-Purina mini comics where Wingnut made his debut as a bad guy.


Wingnut TM & © Mirage Studios