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Yeah, at the one comic store I go to the most frequently they only order a few copies of each Mirage issue and I'm not sure if anyone besides me actually buys it. They have a lot of back issues of it still on the display shelves.
The other dealer I go to paints a bit sadder picture. According to him, interest in the TMNT comics is "mild" and that they don't sell very well, but that there's a "small comeback", mostly with people in their late teens-early 20s. This place has taken to ordering some Mirage Vol. 1 back issues and selling them for cover price, so I've been able to fill up a lot of gaps in my colection. But it's sad to hear that interest in the TMNT comic isn't very high.
But then again it probably never was to begin with compared to the high profile of the other TMNT merchandise and so forth. I know I, personally, only heard of Mirage in passing and never even saw a single issue up until a few years ago, because no shops around here ever made it a point to carry them. The only TMNT comics around were the Archies, so that's all I ever read.
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