Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Original Volume 1 Series Treasury Edition!

[VaughnMichael]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/AbbyStract/tales_vol1_collected.jpg
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Original Volume 1 Series Treasury Edition
Ship Date: November, 2007

Format: 288 B&W pages, full color cover, standard size comic
Retail Price: $18 US $20 Canada

Cover by Jim Lawson and Mike Dooney; stories by Jim Lawson, Ryan Brown and Peter Laird; art by Jim Lawson, Ryan Brown and others.

Treasury Edition reprint collecting the entire original Vol. 1 run of Eastman and Laird’s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… plus an all-new, never-before-published full-length story and all-new frontispieces by Jim Lawson! Includes the first appearance of the Rat King, Leatherhead and many other characters! A TMNT classic!

Ok is anyone else ultra excited about this? Things from the past are finally being collected I hope it's good wooohoo!

[Leonardo19]

I'm definetly excited!! I can't wait to get it.

[Raziel]

It's just a reprint right? There are no changes, right?

[Spawn Guy]

Savanti Romao, Rat King, Leatherhead...

Nobody is in here right?

[a_big_apple]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/AbbyStract/tales_vol1_collected.jpg
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Original Volume 1 Series Treasury Edition


Ok is anyone else ultra excited about this? Things from the past are finally being collected I hope it's good wooohoo!

HOORAY!! Collected things make me so, so happy! Thanks for posting this!

[TristanHuwJones]

Raziel - Right!

Spawn Guy - Right!

[cowabunga14]

I've been looking forward to this collected edition ever since I heard about it and I glad we finally got some more info. :)

[Scandia]

Well, I just received the Tales Volume 1 comics that I won on Ebay. But I am still happy that it has been published.

I saw Tales Volume 2 Collected Book 3 today at the comic book store. But I do not remember which ones I have at home so I did not buy it.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

You know I'm buying this! I love collected books. Now all I've gotta do is find the book for Volume III (Image).

Hey, does anyone know what issues are going to be collected in the new Tales II books?

[DrSpengler]

Even though I own all the individual issues, I'll be getting this.

I hope it also includes the Nobody back-up story that was included in the old TPB collection, since I've never read that and I'm dying to get ahold of it.

[Roseangelo]

I approve!! :tthumbsu:

[VaughnMichael]

It's just a reprint right? There are no changes, right?
No changes from what I know besides this
Treasury Edition reprint collecting the entire original Vol. 1 run of Eastman and Laird’s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… plus an all-new, never-before-published full-length story and all-new frontispieces by Jim Lawson! Includes the first appearance of the Rat King, Leatherhead and many other characters! A TMNT classic!

[blue_angel99]

:D :D :D :D Most excellent news!!

[Spitfire]

That's cool, I already have them all so I probably won't be getting this. But it's awesome to know it's being printed.

I can't say I like the cover art though.

[VaughnMichael]

That's cool, I already have them all so I probably won't be getting this. But it's awesome to know it's being printed.

I can't say I like the cover art though.
Well it's got something you and I where complaining about before so it's worth getting to me for the new story. Something they used to do that made collected books worth getting. I'm happy they're doing this again.
This to me is a step in the right direction.

[Janus Prospero]

I can't say I like the cover art though.

I really like the cover actually. I know a lot of people knock Lawson's newer work. I myself don't mind it, but I do think a good toning/coloring makes it look ten times better than if it was just inked.

I'm kinda curious as to what's happening on the back cover. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the Prince of Thieves and/or the Giant Idol.

[odupianist]

I like the cover. I'm guessing it will be a wrap around cover? I like Lawson's work too, but his TMNT aren't my favorite style of TMNT personally.

[discordiatookie]

Here's hoping Panel to Panel will be doing a nifty bookplate for it too!!!

[junkboy]

Great.
Tnx a lot for the info.
Looking forward to that book.

[soccerstud652]

Hopefully Panel 2 Panel will hook up a nice signature to go along with the book...they seem to carry all of the new collected books.

[Raph's Girl]

OMG!! I TOTALLY can't wait for this!!! An early christmas gift for sure!! ALL of Vol 1 for only $18!! Dude!! :o

[soccerstud652]

OMG!! I TOTALLY can't wait for this!!! An early christmas gift for sure!! ALL of Vol 1 for only $18!! Dude!! :o

Its only 7 comics.......

[Leogeddon]

this makes me sad that my area (the entire state in fact) doesn't get these comics! :'(

[Roseangelo]

this makes me sad that my area (the entire state in fact) doesn't get these comics! :'(

As has been mentioned before, any comic shop can and should order TMNT books for you if you ask them to. But in the case that that can't happen, that is why we have the Internet where you can order anything you like. :)

[Leogeddon]

yes, that's true! THANK GOD FOR DEBIT!!

[soccerstud652]

yes, that's true! THANK GOD FOR DEBIT!!

or credit...don't diss the credit

[VaughnMichael]

or credit...don't diss the credit
Credit is Evil...my grandmother always used to say if you don't have the money to buy it you don't need it. Words to live by if you ask me.

[Janus Prospero]

or credit...don't diss the credit
Yeah, I use a credit card for as much as I can. Mostly because I hate carrying around cash all the time and it gets me rewards points. :D But I never spend more than what I have in my checking account. This way I build up rewards points without having to pay interest. And in the event that there is an emergency or whatever (like my car exploding), the credit card brings peace of mine.

Credit is Evil...my grandmother always used to say if you don't have the money to buy it you don't need it. Words to live by if you ask me.
I tend to agree, save for big investments like a college education, automobile, or home. I've heard way too many horror stories about people being in debt because they can't handle the responsibility of the Visa and Master Card. But there's nothing wrong with using credit, you just need to know how to control the beast to do your bidding.

[VaughnMichael]

Yeah, I use a credit card for as much as I can. Mostly because I hate carrying around cash all the time and it gets me rewards points. :D But I never spend more than what I have in my checking account. This way I build up rewards points without having to pay interest. And in the event that there is an emergency or whatever (like my car exploding), the credit card brings peace of mine.


I tend to agree, save for big investments like a college education, automobile, or home. I've heard way too many horror stories about people being in debt because they can't handle the responsibility of the Visa and Master Card. But there's nothing wrong with using credit, you just need to know how to control the beast to do your bidding.
Or you could just have a checking acount like I do which is the money you put into the acount...

[jenna]

I'm so excited it makes me want to cry. :D

[Janus Prospero]

Or you could just have a checking acount like I do which is the money you put into the acount...

Well, I have a checking account too, but it pretty much acts as a buffer for bills and an intermediate repository for money before it goes into my savings. Like I said, I use my credit card purely to rack up rewards points. I made $250 in less than a year that way. Not a whole lot of money, I know, but it's a nice little bonus when you get it.

The thing I hate about using a Checking Account Debit Card-and one of the reasons I don't use it on principle-is that a lot of times cashiers will try to use debit instead of credit without asking in an attempt to save some money and try to get you billed an extra 50 cents or something. I hate that. :x I got nailed with that so many times when I got my first checking account. Took me a bit to catch on before I realized what was happening. Of course you can just tell them "Credit" but if you're using a credit card anyway they don't have much of a choice. Of course a lot of them still ask.

Why is debit even an option anymore?! No one in their right minds would want to be charged to make a purchase. It's just a way to pilfer money from unsuspecting saps. And every debit card I've ever seen is a fully functioning "credit card" that just withdrawls from the checking account. Actually the real reason banks do it is a bit more malicious. Banks get more money from businesses via "credit purchases" so it's an incentive for consumers to not use debit.

But we're getting way off topic at his point, heh.

So...can't wait for that Tales Volume 1 huh? :D

I couldn't help but notice that the cover says, "Eastman and Laird's." Wasn't there a discussion a while back where someone noticed that Laird was putting his name infront of Eastman's?

And thanks for posting the cover + info BTW.

[atgthatsme]

YES YES YES!!!! :teek: so lookin forward to the new story! and of course all of Tales volume 1!! YAY!! Once the date is set i'll be there! well i get them in my comic shop 4 days later cos im in the uk :tanime: thank you mirage!

[bullet]

urm...hellz yea.

i've been waiting for summin like this for a long, long time.
i've only bits and pieces of tales vol. 1...individual issues get so damn expensive. :(
i saw a lot for all of vol. 1 for like 50 bucks. that averages what, 9 bucks a piece? with shipping i mean, which was i think 14 bucks.

[Ninjinister]

urm...hellz yea.

i've been waiting for summin like this for a long, long time.
i've only bits and pieces of tales vol. 1...individual issues get so damn expensive. :(
i saw a lot for all of vol. 1 for like 50 bucks. that averages what, 9 bucks a piece? with shipping i mean, which was i think 14 bucks.

Man, tough break. I own all of Tales vol. 1 except for the Nobody issue, and I got everything at Half-Price books. Thank the Gods for that store - it filled so many holes in my collection ^^

[odupianist]

Vol 1 for 50 bucks? That's not bad at all. 62 comics for 50 bucks (if i understand you right) is less than a dollar a comic.

[Roseangelo]

Vol 1 for 50 bucks? That's not bad at all. 62 comics for 50 bucks (if i understand you right) is less than a dollar a comic.

No, Tales Vol. 1, which is only 7 issues.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

I've gotta remember this one. First appearances of Leatherhead and Rat King? This is the trade I'm looking forward to most in the next several months.

Now all they need to do is re-release Volume 1 of the regular series...

[odupianist]

No, Tales Vol. 1, which is only 7 issues.

Oops sorry, thanks for clearing that up. I'm debating whether or not to get this even though I already have all of Tales Vol 1.

[atgthatsme]

Oops sorry, thanks for clearing that up. I'm debating whether or not to get this even though I already have all of Tales Vol 1.

Remember there a new stoty in it too :P

[AquaParade]

I'm really glad tpb's of tmnt are starting to come out, but I wish Mirage was able to get places like borders to sell them. Makes it a lot more convenient. My local comic shops usually only have a few tpb's on their shelves at a time and I've yet to see a tmnt one.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

I'm really glad tpb's of tmnt are starting to come out, but I wish Mirage was able to get places like borders to sell them. Makes it a lot more convenient. My local comic shops usually only have a few tpb's on their shelves at a time and I've yet to see a tmnt one.

Agreed. Is Panel to Panel a good site though?

[Roseangelo]

Agreed. Is Panel to Panel a good site though?

Absolutely.

[odupianist]

I might get it for the cool cover art, but we'll see

[junkboy]

Panel to Panel is a great one.
I bought my Collected Book 3 and Soul's winter from there.
Collected book 1 and 2 is out of stock...Book 1 is completely out of stock but they said they would tell me when they obtained more collected book 2 books.
I will surely get future TMNT tpbs from PaneltoPanel

And are there anyone here who knows where i can find Tales of TMNT Collected Book 1. Maybe it might be present at a site :) Tho it is out of stock everywhere - even at Mirage's store - also buying from mirage internationally is really pain, there is not even PayPal, you have to order via old school mail, send the payment that way, etc...

[atgthatsme]

My comic shop gets all the TMNT stuff in comics TPB's I just make sure to go the week they come out incase there one copy only of the TPB's theres normally like 6 of each tales issue lol and theres currently a huge stack of the movie adapt

[***First of Two Latin Kings***]

I'm curious, how much does this book go for these days?

[DrSpengler]

Haven't seen the 2007 version on eBay for a while, but the 1989 version is currently going for less than a fiver right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Collected-Tales-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-TMNT-TPB-/180613554098?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a0d681fb2

A lot of TMNT trades seem to be in a price decline on eBay at the moment. A bunch of Tales Vol. 2 trades, which were previously going for astronomical amounts, are all under MSRP at the moment.

Might be a lull in the aftermarket TMNT trade paperback boom.

[wilddiverse]

I'm curious what sort of asking price this has as well. I've been watching for at least six months and haven't seen one on eBay or anywhere. Venom managed to nab one though... this is my envy hat. It's green. ;)

If anyone has a lead on a copy, PM me. I'd like this search to be over already. :tconfuse:

[Venom]

Yeah, I honest-to-God lucked up on it about five days of actively searching for it. Some dude posted it on his new blogsite when I stumbled across it. I paid $9 dollars for the book and shipping worked out to $6 bucks so $15 total. This was this past November. Wild pointed me to the '89 Collected Tales, which I believe was about $15-$20.

[funatic]

If anyone lives in or near Portland, they had a handful of copies at this store:

http://www.excaliburcomics.net/

I was lucky to be stopping thru last year, not sure if they're still all there though.

[gilamonster]

I'm also looking for a copy. Just realised the significance of this collection last weekend and it seems I missed the train by about four years. Can't really find any on the internet except for some Australian site, but I'm concerned about the cost of shipping from there.

[wilddiverse]

A copy just sold on eBay for $40 shipped.

[gilamonster]

Yeah, I saw that, but it didn't ship to Canada.

[Venom]

HA! I mean - ahem, erm...*composes himself*yeah.

[Abnormal Freak]

HA! I mean - ahem, erm...*composes himself*yeah.

Heeeeeeey... Does that mean you have two now? :p (I think it was you who recently scored one cheap.)

Mind selling one cheap? ;)

[Venom]

Not me, and nupe. I like to score 'em cheap and keep 'em. Only Turtle comic I've let go of was the colored #1 reprint (I have several).

I did get a misprint #4, though.

[Abnormal Freak]

How much did the #4 misprint cost you? I was watching the Mirage auction from a month ago, and it went all the way up to $250, as I recall. That's way too ridiculous for me. :p

[Venom]

$100 even from P2P.

[Andrew NDB]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/AbbyStract/tales_vol1_collected.jpg
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Original Volume 1 Series Treasury Edition
Ship Date: November, 2007

Format: 288 B&W pages, full color cover, standard size comic
Retail Price: $18 US $20 Canada

Cover by Jim Lawson and Mike Dooney; stories by Jim Lawson, Ryan Brown and Peter Laird; art by Jim Lawson, Ryan Brown and others.

Treasury Edition reprint collecting the entire original Vol. 1 run of Eastman and Laird’s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… plus an all-new, never-before-published full-length story and all-new frontispieces by Jim Lawson! Includes the first appearance of the Rat King, Leatherhead and many other characters! A TMNT classic!

Ok is anyone else ultra excited about this? Things from the past are finally being collected I hope it's good wooohoo!

Someone was asking me on Facebook what I thought this was worth to sell and I realized, I have no idea. It looks like there's no trace of it on eBay, Mycomicshop, or anything like that, and there hasn't been for ages. Any guess what it'd be running, abouts? This has to be super rare, at this point. I wonder, though, how many collectors even realize this ever existed?

[Roseangelo]

Someone was asking me on Facebook what I thought this was worth to sell and I realized, I have no idea. It looks like there's no trace of it on eBay, Mycomicshop, or anything like that, and there hasn't been for ages. Any guess what it'd be running, abouts? This has to be super rare, at this point. I wonder, though, how many collectors even realize this ever existed?

I think most of the Mirage collections from that time period are pretty obscure.

My general advice when pricing something without a comp available is to price it at what it's worth to you. Are you happy with $50? Take $50. Or, if you're more patient, you can list it for $200 and see if you get any bites.

[CyberCubed]

The new Jim Lawson story which was a sequel to Tales #7 has never been reprinted anywhere. I don't think IDW is even aware it exists. It's a full new 22 page comic that's only in this collection.

[Andrew NDB]

I don't think IDW is even aware it exists.

Those guys (the reprint guys) don't even know which issues of Mirage Vol. 1 are supposed to have duotones and which ones aren't, and they think the Shredder clones are red, purple, and blue-colored. F*** them.

[staypuftweepel]

Those guys (the reprint guys) don't even know which issues of Mirage Vol. 1 are supposed to have duotones and which ones aren't, and they think the Shredder clones are red, purple, and blue-colored. F*** them.

I agree 100%. They’ve done some awful things with the colors. The clones look completely stupid and it drives me nuts that sometimes they’ll actually color on top of the ink lines. They kept coloring red on top of Zog’s eyes. They didn’t even give the red a sharp outline. The worst part is Neca keeps coloring their figures based off of the color classics instead of the original colors. Another thing about Zog is Jim Lawson kept his model extremely consistent on every page. That means one of the arms always had a sleeve down to the wrist. You can always see the ends of his clothing and the tones are different on the fabric than on his skin. Whenever the people colored the issue they kept changing how the arms were colored. Even on the same page they didn’t color the arms consistent between clothing and skin tone. They did a piss poor job. Anyway because of that Neca made the arm wrong.

[Zog The Magnificent]

Those guys (the reprint guys) don't even know which issues of Mirage Vol. 1 are supposed to have duotones and which ones aren't, and they think the Shredder clones are red, purple, and blue-colored. F*** them.

It's stuff like that that made the Vol. 3 reprints all the more surprising. They did an excellent job with the colors there. It actually made the art better in some places than the original, which in a few spots was a little hard to discern.

[DrSpengler]

Someone was asking me on Facebook what I thought this was worth to sell and I realized, I have no idea. It looks like there's no trace of it on eBay, Mycomicshop, or anything like that, and there hasn't been for ages. Any guess what it'd be running, abouts? This has to be super rare, at this point. I wonder, though, how many collectors even realize this ever existed?

Judging value on Mirage TMNT comics in the aftermarket these days seems to be completely unhinged; I dunno what to make of it anymore.

Volume 1 issues with 80,000 copy print runs that were dollar bin books for decades, like TMNT 8 or the River Trilogy issues, etc., now seem to regularly go for like $20 or more (sometimes way more). They aren't rare, never were rare, but the understanding now seems to be that "if it's a black and white TMNT comic from the 80s then it must be worth a lot of money so price it as such".

Meanwhile, the 2000s era Mirage stuff that had very low print runs and poor availability, like Volume 4 and Tales Volume 2, often still sell for cover price. I guess because they aren't old even though they're Mirage? Or perhaps because there isn't demand for 2000s era Mirage stuff the way there is for 80s Mirage stuff, so price gouging doesn't work as well on those. The only 2000s era Mirage stuff I've see go for big bucks are the final 4 issues of Volume 4 that were only sold through the Mirage website, and sometimes the last handful of Tales Volume 2 of the seller knows what they've got.

There just doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the pricing of Mirage back issues anymore. Demand certainly plays a factor, but the aftermarket is NEVER gonna run out of TMNT 8s or 23s so seeing every seller copying each other's homework and jacking those up to $40 is crazy.

So with all that being ranted, I would say that even if the Tales Treasury Edition made its way onto the aftermarket, it'd either go for a a fortune because it's rare and has exclusive content never reprinted, or you can get it for a steal because the seller doesn't know that and sees it as just another 2000s era reprint.

I'm not being helpful at all, but there's just no logic to the TMNT back issue pricing game anymore.

[oldmanwinters]

Weird, I don’t even remember how I snagged my copy second-hand.
https://i.imgur.com/XWfoLRtl.jpg

I think I only got it for the exclusive frontispieces and the second-hand price was attractive.

[Zog The Magnificent]

Weird, I don’t even remember how I snagged my copy second-hand.
https://i.imgur.com/XWfoLRtl.jpg

I think I only got it for the exclusive frontispieces and the second-hand price was attractive.

I bought both, the first version just yesterday, only for the exclusive stories, and so I could have them in black and white. It didn't set me back too many bones. The original was only 27 dollars, and I wanna say that I got the other one for no more than 50 dollars. It probably wasn't even that much.

[Andrew NDB]

I think I only got it for the exclusive frontispieces and the second-hand price was attractive.

Not for the whole exclusive, never-printed-anywhere-else story?

[Casey88]

I actually scored a copy off of eBay a few weeks back. Pretty good condition, too. Cost me $60. Very lucky to come across it when I did.

[oldmanwinters]

Not for the whole exclusive, never-printed-anywhere-else story?

I think I had forgotten about that one, but sure!