1st appearance ????
 

Hi, this is my first time on the forum but im looking for the 1st appearances of the TMNT characters....I know about the turtles but all the other characters....can any one help me out with the titles of the books and the characters ?????

:P davis

The first issue is available online on the official site.

I think to_count wanted to know in which issues the exact non-turtle characters first appeared, not when Mirage #1 was released.

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/html/comic.htm - this site might be helpful. Lots of synopses avalaible.

Fugitoid number one is where the turtles make their first appearance. However, if you want to get technical, they appeared in the back of Gobbledygook #1 (first printing) as an add for TMNT issue #1

Oops, you were talking about other characters. I need to read posts more carefully. Sorry, don't know off the top of my head.

What are you talking about?

Wha-? Uhm, wasn't Fugitoid #1 written after TMNT #4 hit shelves? I mean, it even advertises TMNT #5 at the very end of it.

So I made a mistake. The TMNTs first appearance was in Gobbledygook #1 (first prinitng) as an add. Mistake corrected.

Offhand I'd say, the TMNT, Splinter, Shredder and the Foot made their first appearance in the first issue. April and Baxter made their appearance in the second issue. Like issue 4-6 or something deals with Fugitoid, the Triceratons and the Ultroms. Raphael # 1 marked the first appearance of Casey Jones. Michealangelo # 1 marked the first appearance of Klunk.

thanks......
 

THank you all for the help.....i know that there are alot of characters in the TMNT world and would love to have them all.....if any one can let me know about which comic book a character 1st appears would really HELP me out !!!!

:P davis

I don't understand why Gobbledygook #1 would be considered their first appearance if it was only an ad. I've never heard of an advertisement being considered a first appearance. That being said, isn't that one of the hardest damn books to find?

hey to_count....

Try This site. It's something I found in my surfing. Kinda interesting. (and kudos to whoever compiled all this stuff.)

I dunno...i see this book all the time (and pretty cheap too) on ebay...

And like you, I dont really consider that a first appearance per se...

You're confusing the books MrPliggins is referring to with the 1986 book. There are two issues of the original Gobbledygook, which were published before the first TMNT and are harder to find than the first TMNT.

Although the price guides often state Gobbledygook #1 was the first appearance of the TMNT, that "appearance" was nothing more than an ad on the back cover. I, personally, don't consider an ad an appearance.

Yep thats right..my bad...my first thought when i read the post was of that widely available '86 one...i've never even seen the earlier 2 books...

I've got pics, but that's it.

Gobbledygook #1:
Front
Back

Gobbledygook #2:
Front
Back

Rose, thanks for the pics! I've never seen the back covers...I didn't know both issues had the ad.

NP. The pics are from not too long ago on eBay. I tried to force myself to bid and win no matter the cost, but it just got way too high for me. *sigh*

Sweet pics...btw, how much did it go for?

I think close to $2000 each. :tcry:

Sheesh!!! Thats right around the $$$ for a tmnt #1.... hopefully I can find them at a flea market or something...:P

Better never than late. :twink:

but welcome!

If you email Dan he says that Mirage considers TMNT #1 to be the first appearance of the turtles. He said they've tried contacting the price guides like overstreet/wizard but they haven't changed it.

The gobbledygook stuff is just xerox paper stapled at the center. It's hardly even a comic book. And I don't count an ad as a first appearance, because then most comic book first appearances would be in the solicitation magazine "Previews".

So in short TMNT #1 is the official first appearance of the turtles (according to Mirage).

I think that sums it up nicely Ecto...

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Sorry to keep confusing everyone....

im not looking for the turtles themselves, Im looking for the other characters in the TMNT universe.....Like Beebop, leatherhead and the other characters.....

sorry !!!

:P davis

go back up thread and check out my first post. that's a darn good web site, (though it doesn't cover vol 4)

and on bebob and rocksteady and Krang...those aren't mirage characters so you won't find 'em in the mirage comics....

I too recently saw some on ebay but didn't have the extra money just lying around. They went for $700 for the pair. Not a bad price, just not affordable for me.

Leather head and Nobody both showed up in the first volume of Tales of the TMNT. Not sure about the rest.

Yup, I saw those, too. And I had to decide it was too much for me. I just paid $600+ two weeks ago to fix my car. :dead: