06-09-2013, 08:55 AM | #1 |
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TMNT Newspaper Comic Strip
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: |
06-09-2013, 10:08 AM | #2 |
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06-09-2013, 11:18 AM | #3 |
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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.
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06-09-2013, 04:19 PM | #4 |
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Sweet, thanks guys!
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06-09-2013, 05:59 PM | #5 |
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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.
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06-09-2013, 07:33 PM | #6 | |
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06-09-2013, 07:54 PM | #7 |
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I scanned a few of the Comic Revue magazines that also have the newspaper strips. I have more, but have to photoshop them whenever I get around to it:
Comics Revue #58 Comics Revue #60 |
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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.
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06-09-2013, 10:35 PM | #9 |
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I have all of them saved in 2 scrapbooks from back in the day (from the Denver Post / Rocky Mountain News). You'll be able to see them all when my site launches this summer. Here are the first five.
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Sweet jesus, man, lend them to Ted Adams so we can get these things printed up!
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Does anyone have any strips with Pizzaface? I heard he showed up.
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06-10-2013, 09:49 PM | #14 |
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Well, I think I have them all...I stopped collecting them when they stopped being run in our paper but maybe they kept going after that. I had thought that was the end though. I have two scrapbooks. There are almost 200 pages of strips with one side the 5 weekday comics and the other the color Sunday comics. I also have all the Comics Revue issues that reprinted them as well but I never cross-checked the scrapbooks against the Comics Revue issues.
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06-10-2013, 10:43 PM | #15 |
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I'd love to be able to read these.
If there's any way to get them all together in an IDW book or eight, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. (Wink wink, nudge nudge.) |
06-10-2013, 10:58 PM | #16 |
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I'm pretty sure most if not all of these are available if you are willing to go torrent diving. I keep digital copies of all the physical books I buy, for quick reference reasons. One of the torrents I downloaded that had a bunch of TMNT comics all had about 1064 different strips in it. I'm looking at them right now.
If these were made available in print via IDW I would snatch it up in a second.
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06-10-2013, 11:51 PM | #17 |
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I recall the TMNT paper strips being considered, but it's always a glancing mention when someone asks; I've emailed Kings and Creators as well but never heard from them.
Murph regularly sells original strips on ebay, so I suppose the best option would be to contact the local papers around Northampton or if someone lives close enough to visit the local archives and try to document how long the series ran to, conclusively, then the next step would be to catalogue them online.
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For now, though, if anyone knows where to find any scans of any rare strips that could be included in an archive, shoot me a PM.
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Hey Wilddiverse do you think you could upload an updated version of the strips with those new ones you just found?
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