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Issue: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
Publication Date: May 1984
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Issues: #1 of 63 Issues (74 Printings)
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Variant: 1st Printing
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Publisher: FlagMirage
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Indicia Publisher: Mirage Publishing, Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/01/1984
Volume:
Pages: 44
ISBN:
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Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird
Disclose Notes: WARNING: There are numerous forgeries of the first printing out there! The bogus copies are easy to spot because the interior pages were printed on stark white paper, not the off-white newsprint of the originals.

Another forgery trick is to take legitimate copies of the second or third printings and bleach out the printing notation text to make them appear to be first printings. Second and third printings are labeled as such on the top left corner of the inside front cover directly beneath the "Special thanks to Quentin Eastman" text (there is no printing notation on first printings).

Also of note: the inside back cover of first printings features an ad for the two "Gobbledygook" zines. The inside back cover of second and third printings features an ad for TMNT t-shirt iron-ons. Also of note is that the address for Mirage Studios changed from Dover, NH to Sharon, CT on the indicia of the third printings.

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #47.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Penciller(s): Kevin Eastman
Inker(s): Kevin Eastman
Colorist(s): Kevin Eastman
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, martial arts
Feature(s): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Character(s): Michelangelo; Donatello; Raphael; Leonardo; Shredder [Oruku Saki]
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Peter Laird
Penciller(s): Kevin Eastman
Inker(s): Kevin Eastman
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, martial arts
Feature(s): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Character(s): Leonardo; Donetello; Michaelangelo; Raphael; Purple Dragon Gang; Splinter; Hamato Yoshi; Oruku Nagi; Tang Shen; Shredder [Oruku Saki]; Mr McAdam; Foot Clan
First Line: My name is Leonardo.
Synopsis: Splinter sends the Turtles to avenge his master's death.
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Pages: 40

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