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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie                        Trade Paperback
Adaptation by: Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman
Layouts: Kevin Eastman
Script: Peter Laird
Pencils: Jim Lawson
Inkers: Eric Talbot, Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman
Colorist: Steve Lavigne
Letterer: Gary Fields
Cover by: Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 American superhero action-comedy film based on the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It is the first film adaptation of the characters and was directed by Steve Barron. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows the Turtles on a quest to save their master, Splinter, with their new allies, April O’Neil and Casey Jones, from the Shredder and his Foot Clan.

Now, Archie Comics presents a classic comic adaptation of the hit 1990 movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… A Gang of criminals teams up with ninjas and threatens to overrun New York City with a crime wave bigger than any other in history. Luckily the Big Apple has a group of mysterious new heroes ready to step forward and take on this evil empire. But, can even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hope to defeat the deadly leader of the ninja Foot Clan – Shredder?!!

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
In New York City, television reporter April O’Neil reports on a silent crime wave enveloping the city. That night, April is attacked by a group of thieves, and is saved by an unseen group of vigilantes. April’s rescuers, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael – return to their hidden lair in the sewer, where their master and adoptive father, a rat named Splinter, advises them to continue practicing the art of ninjutsu. Raph visits the surface and ends up in a fight with the brutal vigilante Casey Jones, who escapes. April investigates the crime wave, correctly theorizing it to be the work of the ninja Foot Clan, whose leader, The Shredder, orders her to be silenced. The Foot clansmen attack April in the subway. Raph defeats them and carries the unconscious April back to the turtles’ lair, unaware that a Foot soldier is following. Once April awakens, Splinter introduces himself and the turtles, explaining that they were once normal animals, before being mutated into intelligent, anthropomorphic creatures by a mysterious chemical and trained by Splinter in ninjutsu. After the turtles escort April home, they find their hideout ransacked and Splinter kidnapped. They return to April’s apartment and spend the night there. April’s supervisor, Charles Pennington, visits April’s apartment with his delinquent son, Danny. Danny glimpses the turtles hiding, and later runs away following an argument with his father. At the Foot’s hideout, Shredder informs his followers of the turtles’ threat, and Danny reports his findings. Ralph argues with Leo over his leadership, and retreats to the roof. The Foot arrive and lay siege, beating Raph unconscious. The apartment catches fire, and the turtles and April escape with help from Casey. Guilt-stricken, Danny seeks counsel from the imprisoned Splinter, and runs away from the Foot Clan. The turtles retreat to an abandoned farm belonging to April’s family, where Raphael recovers and April and Casey bond. Leo receives a vision of Splinter, and assembles the other turtles to contact him through astral projection. Splinter delivers his final lesson, inspiring the turtles to return to the city. The turtles find Danny hiding in their lair. While the turtles are sleeping, Danny returns to the Foot’s hideout and meets with Splinter, followed by Casey. Splinter tells Danny the story of how, when he was still an ordinary rat, he learned ninjutsu from his former master, the ninja Hamato Yoshi. Fellow ninja Oroku Saki rivalled with Yoshi over the love of a woman, Tang Shen, who fled with Yoshi to New York to avoid conflict with Saki; however Saki pursued and killed them. Shredder discovers Danny and realizes that the turtles have returned, ordering Splinter to be killed. Casey and Danny free Splinter and defeat Shredder’s lieutenant Tatsu, before convincing the remaining Foot members of Shredder’s manipulations. The turtles repel the Foot from their lair and onto the streets. Shredder confronts the turtles on a rooftop, and is about to kill Leo when Splinter appears, identifying Shredder as Oroku Saki; who in turn recognizes Splinter as Yoshi’s pet rat. Shredder charges Splinter with a spear, only for Splinter to snare the spear with Michelangelo’s nunchaku. Dangling over the roof’s edge, Shredder makes a final attempt to kill Splinter with a thrown tanto, which Splinter catches as he lets go of the nunchaku, dropping Shredder into a garbage truck. Casey activates the truck’s compactor. The police arrest the Foot soldiers and recover the stolen goods from their hideout. The Channel 3 news crew arrives, and Danny is reunited with Charles. April and Casey share a kiss while the turtles celebrate their victory with Splinter.

Trade Paperback is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Archie Comics Publications, Inc.
Publication Date: 1990
Format: FC, 48 pages, TPB, 10.25” x 6.65″
ISBN: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is in Very Fine condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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