Though while he recreates several of the classic pages (the Turtles cornered in the alley, the two-page spread of them leaping into action, etc.), he pads most of it out with goofy “comedy fighting” and a lot of stupid oneliners. And for anyone who is a Michael Dooney fan, that’s kind of cool. While one look at that story summary will leave you thinking that this is a pretty boring little footnote in Turtle pack-in comic history, it does have one inherent value in that it’s basically the first few pages of the TMNT (Vol. Such is the fate of most promotional material handed out to 6 year-olds, alas. Special thanks to the guys at The Technodrome Forums for hooking me up with scans of this comic! As you can tell, despite the massive amount of the things printed and their tremendous availability… not a whole lot of them have survived the past nine years in very good condition.
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*This story is essentially a retelling of the opening scenes of the first episode of the 4Kids cartoon, “Things Change”… which also makes it essentially a retelling of the opening scenes from TMNT (Vol. *This 8-page pack-in minicomic was distributed at Toys ‘r’ Us locations in late 2002 as part of a “Fox Box” package a box containing promotional materials for the then-new Fox Box Saturday Morning programming block (of which the 4Kids TMNT cartoon premiered on). As the final thug flees in terror, Leonardo orders his brothers to disappear before the police arrive.Įscaping into the sewer, Leonardo remarks, “We strike hard and fast… and then fade away… out of sight!” The Turtles spring into action and jovially take out the weapon-toting thugs one at a time.
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The Dragons make fun of the freaks in the turtle costumes, but of course, those aren’t costumes. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have made a wrong turn and found themselves cornered in an alley by the Purple Dragon gang.