Did the Turtles ever duck their heads into their shells in the comics?

[saul]

This seemed to happen several times in the Old Cartoon, and in Movie 1 and 3. It seems like a natural thing to have a turtle do. But did it ever happen in the Mirage comics?

[Weapons@theready]

I don't know about the Mirage comics but I recall it happening in the Archie comics

[corvus]

Yeah it didn't happen in the 4kids cartoon either. Considering how small their shells are for turtles, I don't know how it'd be possible, there'd be organs in the way.

[Donnie]

Mikey did it in his IDW one-shot, but that obviously isn't Mirage.

I don't recall anything from Mirage. I think Peter Laird thought it silly, if I remember correctly from one of his 4Kids production notes...

[Lampy]

Mikey did it in his IDW one-shot, but that obviously isn't Mirage.

I don't recall anything from Mirage. I think Peter Laird thought it silly, if I remember correctly from one of his 4Kids production notes...

speaking of IDW... so did leo when that foot ninja tried to hit him with the nunchucks.

[Candy Kappa]

This seemed to happen several times in the Old Cartoon, and in Movie 1 and 3. It seems like a natural thing to have a turtle do. But did it ever happen in the Mirage comics?

I don't know about natural. Sea turtles can't retract their head due to all the muscles they got, something similar should probably apply to the turtles, but then again it's cartoon animals chopping up ninjas with sword and the flavin

[Jephael]

You'd think that if the TMNT could do that they'd use it more often to their adventage. You only see it happen a couple times in the original toon and once in the first and third movies.

[shezcrafti]

You'd think that if the TMNT could do that they'd use it more often to their adventage. You only see it happen a couple times in the original toon and once in the first and third movies.

What about that scene in SOTO where they're floating in the harbor after the fight with Shredder? I always assumed they were tucked up inside their shells when you see just the shells come up out of the water. Just me?

[Lampy]

it's not mirage... but donatello also did in the image books when he was falling from the sky.