Enough green already, sheesh! I don‘t know about you, but when I see or hear those words…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…I can‘t help but sing the whole song whether it‘s in my head or out loud! In fact, I‘ve sang it so much that my three-year-old daughter can sing the whole song!

Ah memories, nostalgia, uh, the 80s? Yes, well back in 1984, a couple of men by the name of Kevin B. Eastman and Peter A. Laird debuted their comic book called “Eastman and Laird‘s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” at a comic book convention in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They brought the sleeper hit in a limited run of 3,000, on oversized newspaper print and with black and white art. The limited run made this comic an instant collector‘s item which not only made the original comic worth upwards of fifty times more then the cover price almost instantly, but also got the Turtles‘ name out and created a demand for more issues.

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