TMNT comic strip collection? Hint hint IDW!
 

So IDW collected Superman comic strips as seen here:

http://comicsalliance.com/idw-classi...r-collections/

I don't even know why I am asking this but......who would like to see TMNT get the same treatment?

I'd buy the $hit out of a book like this. So many cool stories some of us missed out on.

Come on IDW let's make this happen!

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Would love to see them collected - would be a must buy for me also!

We should get a petition going lol.

How many strips were there? Enough to justify a book treatment?

Not sure on an exact quantity but hell I'd even settle for a tpb.

The Dan Berger run was great. Didn't care much for the Lawson era of the strip (that was also when Murphy did adaptations, like Sons of the Silent Age, but made them all about the environment. Dullsville in both art and story content).

I know there's definitely enough strips to justify at least one or two nice collections; I followed the strip every day when it was republished online (it was never syndicated in my local papers, back in the day). Obviously, I'd like to see the material published.

The idea has been brought up before in the Ask An Editor thread at the IDW Forums and I believe Bobby has said that they're not a high priority.

When they're still struggling to get through the Mirage and Archie comics, I can understand how newspaper strips wouldn't be very high on their to-do list.

Some of the TMNT comic strips were collected and published back in 1991 in a magazine called Comics Revue. The TMNT strips started in issue #58 and ended in issue #82. The TMNT strips that were re-published in those 25 Comics Revue issues began with the Dec. 10, 1990 strip and ended with the Sept. 25, 1992 strip.

...in case you don't want to wait on IDW. :D

I wanna say I saw a post from Bobby saying they had plans of doing this in the future...

Oh, these again... the strip ran 315 weeks = December 10, 1990 to December 31, 1996.

Weekday strips were home to a continuing story and/or gag while the weekend strips were generally less essential features like 'Green Tips', Fan Art, or Puzzles.

The first six months of its run appears to have had actual color Sunday strips, but this is based on limited evidence.

Doing some fuzzy math to omit weekend strips, there should be roughly 1575 original weekday strips. Add weekend strips that presented story content and not just filler*, we'd be looking at over 1600 strips total.

I think it is apparent there is enough of these to collect them in some fashion or another. Hopefully we will see them some day along with completely collected volumes of comics.

Did he?

Because that'd be good news.

It'd be amazing news! I'd be more excited about getting this than any of the other trades they've put out - solely because I've never read any of them before!

Amen. I feel like I've read maybe one to two of these strips so this would be beyond awesome to own.

It's one of the few things IDW could print that would interest me to own. The strip is essentially the final piece of the Mirage era for me and I've run out of leads for filling out an attempted archive.

Does anyone know if the TMHT daily strip that ran in the Daily Mirror in the UK in 1990-1991 was exclusive to the UK, or was it a reprint of something appearing in the US first? For nostalgia reasons, I'd love for the "UK daily strips" to be in any collected edition as well!!

As far as I'm aware, you're in possession of the largest archive of the strips!

I truly hope this is something IDW seriously considers at some point, because it's great to read newspaper comics in a format that shows any continuity a series had.

How would IDW go about getting the strips? Would the newspapers have to be contacted?

The first I learned of these was a link posted here to a just-ended auction for a clipped set of the strip. Maybe someone here thought to grab the sample pics from the auction? I remember them being in color and I believe they were exclusive to that UK paper.
Might could be. If anyone out there stashed away any strips from the Mirage website back when it was hosting the archive, drop me a PM- specifically in need of strips from 1993, 1995, and 1996.
According to Stephen Murphy, photostats for the entire run of the strip were created by a Mirage intern so presumably IDW now has access to those (assuming they weren't lost or destroyed).

And if someone managed to learn which newspapers to contact about accessing old issues that ran the strip, I'd love to hear how they did it -- no one I've contacted at Mirage or elsewhere has been able to name a paper that syndicated the strip through its end-date. Dan Berger has said it was only running in twenty newspapers by the end of 1996.

Yes, that's right, they were colour. I think I had pretty much all of them at the time. I remember Leatherhead and Cuddly the Cowlick made appearances! They were very bizarre, but fun!

Thinking about it, you're probably right about the UK exclusive... Mikey never used his weapons and they were drawn in the style that was also seen in some of the UK exclusive comics...

Hopefully it is that simple! Access the database and print these suckers 8)

This would be a must buy for me!:D

I always wondered why Archie didn't collect these myself. Wasn't this set in the TMNT Adventures universe?

No. Its tone was similar, I suppose, but it's decidedly separate. It's easy to spot similarities with plots and themes from the Archie and Mirage series, but that's hardly surprising since it had the same pool of creators.


In the later years with solo Dan Berger doing the strip, characters like Casey Jones, Savanti Romero and Renet showed up- and a lot of Playmates toy characters make appearances.


Someone with a lot of time on their hands could possibly make a believable argument for the strip sharing a universe with the TMNT magazine or cereal comics but none of it's fresh enough in my mind to attempt.

I hope they collect the strips, I own a complete week of original strips and would love to see them printed and be able to read the story from previous weeks that went with it.

The week I have is December 21-25 1992 does anyone have any scans or original paper clippings of these days?

Just seen an IDW post on FB about a Batman comic strip collection......come on TMNT edition.

And now Popeye.

It's no secret that IDW prints classic news strip comic collections, as they have done so for years.

There is no need to post here every time they release a new collection; you would be better off commenting on their FB posts in support of a TMNT newspaper comic collection.

They know it's wanted by some, and they have been open to looking into it at some point (as confirmed by Ted Adams and I think Bobby Curnow at one point).

I collected these strips from day one back in the 90s and saved them in 2 separate scrapbooks. Scrapbook #1 Scrapbook #2

There's some photos of the TMNT newspaper strips in colour on an Ebay auction right now. You just have to scroll down the page about halfway. Only thing is, they are part of a lot that includes heaps of other strips like Batman, Garfield and many more...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161332521545...545%26_rdc%3D1

Hi, I was the artist on the Daily Mirror TMNT comic strip, way back in 1990-91. Which was a great gig to get at that time. It ran for a year and was two six month contracts. I had to produce 6 daily strips and in the "Sunday Mirror" magazine. I had to produce a two tier strip. Deadlines were always tight as there was not much time to get ahead as they wanted it out there while the Turtle craze was hot. It was all original material, produced here in the UK. Great characters like Mad Cow Denise.

I'd buy! :)

Do have them from the first all the way to the end? I've always wondered if the problem was RAW scans and if you have them it'd be an awesome new book. I just have the Comics Revue versions without the saturday fan art and if they'd do an awesome book version. I'd buy it!

Unfortunately I don't have have many pieces of original art left, I have 43 dailies left and 4 two tier pieces left, see attachments.
Sometime in the nineties I handed a load of originals over to a comics speciality store called Comics Showcase, to sell. I went back nearly a year later to find out they lost them. I personally believe they were stolen, there must've been 200 dailies in their possession.

Just checked the scrapbooks, which look great, but these are not the ones that appeared in the Daily Mirror newspaper published in the UK.

hey griffart!welcome to the technodrome!thank you for sharing your work with us!..I have to say these look really good.I don't understand the punchlines I think, but this could be attributed to the fact that Im just seeing snippets of a line of gags and thus don't get the connection..anyway, they look really nice, I like your inking!all looks pretty polished, clear work..and the characters resemble the characters I grew up with back then..I think that dan bergers turtles and splinter esp on the first look don't do it for me...
a question:do you have any idea if your stories or strips were also used in german hero turtles publications back in the days?..because they really look close to the comic turtles that were available to me in the beginning of the 90s..thanks in advance!
cheers
mars

Hey, thanks for sharing those with us!

A lot of the UK exclusive TMNT comics content is hard to come by and little known in the US. Things like the Fleetway TMHT comics that weren't Archie reprints or the Titan Fast Forward magazine comics. I didn't even know these UK exclusive newspaper strips existed.

International contract issues will probably keep these obscure comics from ever reaching our shores, so we appreciate that you're sharing some samples with us.

Would be fun
 

I would definitely buy this! it would be fun to read all of those comic strips

I'd buy it, I'm sure. For those who have read them and have some idea, roughly how many pages would such a collection end up being?

Hey man, that's funny to hear, I have the original artwork for the full week of Christmas 1991! Bought them off Murph a couple of years back. Have a couple other 2 and 3 day runs of the original art of the strip as well. Really great pieces that hold a special spot in my original art collection.

I have been trying to track down more of the US Strips and been trying to snag up all of the issues of Comics Revue that I can find to get them. The Turtles feature ran in #58-82, and a lot of those Comics Revue issues in that run are tough to find. Issues #67-79 are almost non-existent on the secondary market it seems.

Good info here on the UK strip, thanks Griffart. I wasn't even aware there was a UK Newspaper strip, which started nearly a year before the US strip, until I saw that the editor's note in Comics Revue #58 mentioned it. Man I wish there was a good way to try to track down that year's worth of strips. I'd love to read that run. Your art is fantastic! Very sad to hear about the lost strips that were stolen from that dealer! I hope that artwork is saved in some archive somewhere so that those strips aren't lost forever!

Any UK fans out there still have any of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror magazines this UK Exclusive strip ran in? If so, could you share scans?

Any news on this topic?