Placement of IDW reprints
 

Heyo! I've decided to start buying some of the older TMNT comics as IDW starts reprinting them, but I've become pretty confused with the placement of each collection.

I've tried comparing the comic titles and publication dates to the fantastically crafted Mirage and Archie timelines, but I'm still coming up short. Could someone help me figure out where exactly the IDW collections fall and in what continuity?

There's the Ultimate Collection,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Adventures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Classics (Not color classics).

Is the classics part of volume 1 of Mirage? Why does Amazon show an Adventures Volume 1 that starts with the shrinking turtles, but my Volume 1 starts with the first season of the OC? Have I missed any other reprints that IDW has released? I'm so confused :-(

The Ultimate Collections and the Classics are all part of Volume 1, Mirage continuity. The Ultimate Collections are only collecting the big Eastman/Laird issues, the classics collect all the other Volume 1 issues.

The Adventures collections, as you can see just by looking at it, was the comic originally based on the first cartoon series. It was published by Archie and starting at issue #5 it made its own new original stories.

I think this will help you:

http://www.ninjapizza.net/search/label/comics

Ahhhh yes. Very helpful indeed! Thanks! So are all of the volume 1 mirages going to be released between those two publications (UC and Classics)? Has that even been announced?

Bobby said they do intend to release all of Volume 1. Some issues are held back by the individual writers rights, and may take a while.

If things go well we can expect Volume 2, Image, and Volume 4 to be collected as well....but it'll take a while.