TMNT Newspaper Comic Strip

[Shark_Blade]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenag...comic_strip%29

Anyone know where I can find it? I used to read it when I was a kid. Sadly this edition was never collected or published. Maybe it's somewhere online? Scans maybe? I tried googling but got this only:

[gobo]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...s.com/strips/*

[oldmanwinters]

This thread might help.
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=33392

I have archived all the strips that ran on the GoComics website until they abruptly ended the run soon after Peter Laird sold the TMNT to Viacom. Some strips have been reprinted in Comics Revue, and I think all of them were temporarily available on the official TMNT site back around the late 90s and early 00s.

[Shark_Blade]

Sweet, thanks guys!

[wilddiverse]

Sadly there's no new findings I can report on this side quest - I see the mediafire link to my wayback machine findings for 1995-1996 is kaput so http://www.sendspace.com/file/b0qdi2.

The Mirage Studios hard drive is long gone so the full strip archive where I dug these up is not recoverable that way. Ever-helpful Dan Berger didn't know which twenty newspapers ran the strip through to the end of its syndication, though, but did say most of them were in close proximity to Northampton, MA.

It's a shame since Berger's strip was a terrific melting pot of everything TMNT - humor, action, sci-fi and dinosaurs, Mirage comic cast showed up, characters that only existed as action figures appeared...

And now I've just sent emails to both Creators Syndicate and King Features asking what information they might have on a list of the papers that ran the strip through December 31, 1996. Maybe this'll get us a new lead.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by wilddiverse

The Mirage Studios hard drive is long gone so the full strip archive where I dug these up is not recoverable that way. Ever-helpful Dan Berger didn't know which twenty newspapers ran the strip through to the end of its syndication, though, but did say most of them were in close proximity to Northampton, MA.

Oh, yes, I absolutely LOVE Berger's art style and the newspaper strip really let him cut loose with it!

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by wilddiverse

And now I've just sent emails to both Creators Syndicate and King Features asking what information they might have on a list of the papers that ran the strip through December 31, 1996. Maybe this'll get us a new lead.

Yes, that's a great idea
There's always the possibility that someone with access to lengthy newspaper archives could go through the issues manually and take copies of the last few strips. It would be a big chore, but all it takes is one willing person with the means to do it.

[gobo]

After finding my backup discs and running a duplicate-deleter on all the strips I found, I have 2,154 image files left over. That's over 400 weeks! Unless I have a lot of same pic / different format dupes. That would suck.

[wilddiverse]

gobo - I'd be curious to hear what you have once all's checked. I went to send a PM, but your mailbox is full. I currently have over 1200 well-sorted, dated strips from various sources (a few upgrades from gifs included in that) so I'm hoping your 2150 count sorts out to be mostly dupe-free.

[gobo]

Looks can be deceiving. After I'm done going through the last 90 possible same pic/different resolution dupes, I'll only have ~1270.

[oldmanwinters]

Man, those missing strips sure are elusive to come by these days.

[Enscripture]

So I got a couple new Comics Revue magazines (#59,61,62 are new). Here's all I have so far:

#58
#59
#60
#61
#67
#68
#69
#62