Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Original Volume 1 Series Treasury Edition!

[CyberCubed]

The new Jim Lawson story which was a sequel to Tales #7 has never been reprinted anywhere. I don't think IDW is even aware it exists. It's a full new 22 page comic that's only in this collection.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I don't think IDW is even aware it exists.

Those guys (the reprint guys) don't even know which issues of Mirage Vol. 1 are supposed to have duotones and which ones aren't, and they think the Shredder clones are red, purple, and blue-colored. F*** them.

[staypuftweepel]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Those guys (the reprint guys) don't even know which issues of Mirage Vol. 1 are supposed to have duotones and which ones aren't, and they think the Shredder clones are red, purple, and blue-colored. F*** them.

I agree 100%. They’ve done some awful things with the colors. The clones look completely stupid and it drives me nuts that sometimes they’ll actually color on top of the ink lines. They kept coloring red on top of Zog’s eyes. They didn’t even give the red a sharp outline. The worst part is Neca keeps coloring their figures based off of the color classics instead of the original colors. Another thing about Zog is Jim Lawson kept his model extremely consistent on every page. That means one of the arms always had a sleeve down to the wrist. You can always see the ends of his clothing and the tones are different on the fabric than on his skin. Whenever the people colored the issue they kept changing how the arms were colored. Even on the same page they didn’t color the arms consistent between clothing and skin tone. They did a piss poor job. Anyway because of that Neca made the arm wrong.

[Zog The Magnificent]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Those guys (the reprint guys) don't even know which issues of Mirage Vol. 1 are supposed to have duotones and which ones aren't, and they think the Shredder clones are red, purple, and blue-colored. F*** them.

It's stuff like that that made the Vol. 3 reprints all the more surprising. They did an excellent job with the colors there. It actually made the art better in some places than the original, which in a few spots was a little hard to discern.

[DrSpengler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Someone was asking me on Facebook what I thought this was worth to sell and I realized, I have no idea. It looks like there's no trace of it on eBay, Mycomicshop, or anything like that, and there hasn't been for ages. Any guess what it'd be running, abouts? This has to be super rare, at this point. I wonder, though, how many collectors even realize this ever existed?

Judging value on Mirage TMNT comics in the aftermarket these days seems to be completely unhinged; I dunno what to make of it anymore.

Volume 1 issues with 80,000 copy print runs that were dollar bin books for decades, like TMNT 8 or the River Trilogy issues, etc., now seem to regularly go for like $20 or more (sometimes way more). They aren't rare, never were rare, but the understanding now seems to be that "if it's a black and white TMNT comic from the 80s then it must be worth a lot of money so price it as such".

Meanwhile, the 2000s era Mirage stuff that had very low print runs and poor availability, like Volume 4 and Tales Volume 2, often still sell for cover price. I guess because they aren't old even though they're Mirage? Or perhaps because there isn't demand for 2000s era Mirage stuff the way there is for 80s Mirage stuff, so price gouging doesn't work as well on those. The only 2000s era Mirage stuff I've see go for big bucks are the final 4 issues of Volume 4 that were only sold through the Mirage website, and sometimes the last handful of Tales Volume 2 of the seller knows what they've got.

There just doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the pricing of Mirage back issues anymore. Demand certainly plays a factor, but the aftermarket is NEVER gonna run out of TMNT 8s or 23s so seeing every seller copying each other's homework and jacking those up to $40 is crazy.

So with all that being ranted, I would say that even if the Tales Treasury Edition made its way onto the aftermarket, it'd either go for a a fortune because it's rare and has exclusive content never reprinted, or you can get it for a steal because the seller doesn't know that and sees it as just another 2000s era reprint.

I'm not being helpful at all, but there's just no logic to the TMNT back issue pricing game anymore.

[oldmanwinters]

Weird, I don’t even remember how I snagged my copy second-hand.


I think I only got it for the exclusive frontispieces and the second-hand price was attractive.

[Zog The Magnificent]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Weird, I don’t even remember how I snagged my copy second-hand.
https://i.imgur.com/XWfoLRtl.jpg

I think I only got it for the exclusive frontispieces and the second-hand price was attractive.

I bought both, the first version just yesterday, only for the exclusive stories, and so I could have them in black and white. It didn't set me back too many bones. The original was only 27 dollars, and I wanna say that I got the other one for no more than 50 dollars. It probably wasn't even that much.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

I think I only got it for the exclusive frontispieces and the second-hand price was attractive.

Not for the whole exclusive, never-printed-anywhere-else story?

[Casey88]

I actually scored a copy off of eBay a few weeks back. Pretty good condition, too. Cost me $60. Very lucky to come across it when I did.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Not for the whole exclusive, never-printed-anywhere-else story?

I think I had forgotten about that one, but sure!