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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:59 am |
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1966 and all that
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Yes, I got the Turtles before they broke big. I was taken by a full page ad in CBG advertising a Titans/Elektra/X-Men spoof. I've got first printings of the bw comics, but TMNT quickly became a parody of itself and a lot of crummy product followed in its wake:
Here are the memorable titles that I will never forget for as long as I live:
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (people speculated in this dreck) Pre-teen Dirty Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos
...help, I've forgotten most of those crummy comics!
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Bobson Dugnutt
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:35 am |
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"Power Pachyderms" at Marvel, which started off as Adult Thermonuclear Samurai Elephants.
Co-created by Roger Stern, IIRC.
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Prowl
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:52 am |
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Dynamite have got new Hamsters stuff coming out.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:13 am |
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I'm writing an essay on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:48 am |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Yes, I got the Turtles before they broke big. I was taken by a full page ad in CBG advertising a Titans/Elektra/X-Men spoof. I've got first printings of the bw comics, but TMNT quickly became a parody of itself and a lot of crummy product followed in its wake:
Here are the memorable titles that I will never forget for as long as I live:
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (people speculated in this dreck) Pre-teen Dirty Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos
...help, I've forgotten most of those crummy comics! I had those issues, too! There was a great one where they met Jack Kirby. 
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:27 am |
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I've seen something somewhere about Geriatric Kung-Fu Gophers.
During the 1980s I didn't live near any place where you could get indy comics, so I missed out on the great black-and-white explosion. For the most part I don't get the impression I was missing much.
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Bubbles
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:28 am |
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The early comics are on the official Ninja Turtle website if you wanna give them a read.
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Eric W.H. Taft
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:08 am |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (people speculated in this dreck) Dreck? They were great fun! I still have mine. Also cool was Fish Police. I loved Fish Police.
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Nagoo
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:19 am |
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Zielfisch gefunden, Zielfisch gefangen
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I have (with the exception of issue No. 1), all of the original b&w TMNT issues. I agree, after they hit big (dare I say they sold out?) they became utter shit. And speaking of writing papers about them, when I was in college I had to take a writing class for my history major. In it we had to use "primary sources". I had a genius idea of using the original comics as my "primary sources" for the history of the TMNT. I then defined a fad using (ha-ha) scholarly sources, and analyzed whether TMNT were indeed a true fad. Anyway, I got an "A" and the professor made a big deal about it. I like to think of it as my own Kirk-Kobayashi Maru moment.
I had the Hamster comic. It sucked and I never sought out the other rip-offs. I find people are doing the same now with the success of Mouse Guard, with lame rip-offs.
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That meddlin kid
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:20 pm |
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Bubbles wrote: The early comics are on the official Ninja Turtle website if you wanna give them a read. I've got the First Comics trade of the early issues colorized. I've heard that even that trade is now hard to find.
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:43 pm |
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Eric W.H. Taft wrote: GoogaMooga wrote: Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (people speculated in this dreck) Dreck? They were great fun! I still have mine. Also cool was Fish Police. I loved Fish Police. Okay, I confess, that remark was just me echoing the critical consensus of that time. I don't remember buying any of the copycat titles myself, but it seems Nagoo agrees with the critical sentiment of that period. I remember Fish Police, that got better reviews.
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Eric W.H. Taft
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:31 pm |
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Oh, don't get me wrong, the Hamsters DID kind of suck and were indeed an obvious ripoff -- but they were so shameless, so shamelessly goofy and so knowingly bad that I liked 'em.
Fish Police was a genuinely good comic, as I recall. In fact, I'm pretty sure it later moved to the Epic imprint. Now that I think about it, it may even have gotten a cartoon.
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Eric W.H. Taft
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:32 pm |
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:43 pm |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Eric W.H. Taft wrote: GoogaMooga wrote: Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters (people speculated in this dreck) Dreck? They were great fun! I still have mine. Also cool was Fish Police. I loved Fish Police. Okay, I confess, that remark was just me echoing the critical consensus of that time. I don't remember buying any of the copycat titles myself, but it seems Nagoo agrees with the critical sentiment of that period. I remember Fish Police, that got better reviews. In fact, let me rephrase that, it was me echoing the critical sentiment, I don't remember how many reviews I read.
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:58 pm |
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Oh yeah, I remember the silly TMNT parody comics (parodies of a parody!). There was Geriatric Gangrene Jiujitsu Gerbils and Mildly Microwaved Pre-pubescent Kung-Fu Gophers, among others. I can't remember more than the Dirty Geen Kangaroos and the Black-belt Hamsters, but I think there were a few more along those lines.
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:44 am |
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Oh yes, the Gerbils and the Gophers, how could I forget such high lit? And how about The Dark Gnat?
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:14 am |
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I liked the Gerbils. They were stupid, but fun. I think they fought a giant sumo wrestler.
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:53 am |
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It's all before my time.
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:57 pm |
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There were the "Naive Inter-dimensional Commando Koalas", as well.
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:02 pm |
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I never got into the Turtles or related Commando/Blackbelt/Radioactive/Transgendered critters, but jeez, I bought a lot of shit back then.
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Drew Vin
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:52 pm |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Oh yes, the Gerbils and the Gophers, how could I forget such high lit? And how about The Dark Gnat? You mean the Gnatrat? Yeah, I actually kinda liked that. GoogaMooga mentioned this one:  This wasn't just a parody of TMNT but also a parody of American Flagg, too. And another:  And another:  And another:  And some others here:  Of course, the proliferation of all this stuff led to this:  Wherein Boris slaughters characters who appear similar to Cerebus, Usagi Yojimbo, TMNT, the Hamsters, the Chameleon Commandos, and others (even Ambush Bug, too).
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Post subject: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white boom in the '80s Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:56 pm |
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Mark wrote: It's all before my time. I just started elementary school around the time these things were published and wouldn't have known what a comic shop was yet, much less known about the TMNT (until their cartoon debuted).
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