Issue Description

Shredder breaks Baxter Stockman out of an asylum and puts him to work. April is at Channel 6 with Mr. Thompson as a news report featuring the Karate gang (disguised as turtles) rob another bank. Thompson is happy that there's now proof that the TMNT are a menace. April calls Leonardo and tells him to meet her at the station. When the TMNT arrive, April plays them the tape of the bogus Turtles, and Leo surmises that Shredder is behind the deception. Just then, Thompson and his new girlfriend (who is turtlephobic) arrive. The girl spots the TMNT and goes into hysterics, so the Turtles flee out the window. Thompson demands to know why the Turtle terrorists were at his station, and April decides to take a new approach and tells her boss that she lured them there to expose them. Meanwhile, Splinter is home meditating when a huge, mechanized drill vehicle erupts into the sewer, piloted by Baxter. Stockman captures the Sensei and takes off, just as the Turtles get home. The TMNT follow the trail left by the huge contraption. When the Green Team gets to the end of the trail, they find the costumed Karate gang and a battle ensues. The Turtles win easily and find a message from Saki to meet at the Karate studio... if they dare! Of course they do! April decides to visit the Turtles and finds the tunnel made by the drilling machine, and investigates. The TMNT arrive at the karate studio just as Shredder is preparing to kill Master Splinter... but before the evil ninja can make his move, Baxter and his machine burst through the wall. The Turtles manage to get Baxter out of his vehicle and spoil Shredder's plans in one fell swoop. Saki grabs Stockman and makes his getaway. April report on the news that evening reveals the whole story about the Karate gang and their hoax. Thompson's girlfriend gets enraged that his station is defending turtles and dumps him.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (1989)

Publisher

Archie Adventure Series

Volume Description

Published by Archie Comics, this comic was based on mainstream version of the turtles. It started out simply retelling episodes of the then popular animated series but with the fifth issue the book branched out into telling it's own stories. Primarily written by Dean Clarrain the stories would often have an underlying environmentalist themes, over time the storylines grew darker and more mature. The series drew negative press when a storyline saw the death of the turtle's allies The Mighty Mutanimals in a massacre.

The three part "Future Shark Trilogy" which saw the turtles, Splinter and their ally Ninjara come to the aid of the older turtles in dystopian future proved popular with fans and elements and characters from the story were revisited many times in the series. For five issues the comic was renamed Cyber Samurai Mutant Ninja Turtles in a storyline that was set soley in the aforementioned future. By now the turtles fad of the eighties and early nineties had faded which meant lagging sales. Mirage wanting to put out their own color TMNT book made the publishers nervous of competition leading them to consider cancellation. Growing frustration of darker storylines came to a head when Clarrain and co plotter and artist Chris Allen submitted a time travel story involving the the future turtles Archie was displeased. The covers for the seven part epic "Forever War" were made with the belief that this would be final storyline of the series. Clarrain and Allen were dropped from the book and it was cancelled two issues later with the final storyline focused on a present Splinter telling the story of how pre-teen turtles picked their weapons written by Steve Sullivan and drawn by Brian Thomas.

Years later Clarrain and Allen would work on the second volume of Tales of the TMNT writing the original turtles for Mirage. It has also been confirmed they are working on completing the final storyline of TMNT Adventures "Forever War" with Mirage publishing it as part of the TMNT's 25th anniversary in 2009.

Collected EditionsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 1 (#1-4)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 2 (#5-8)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 3 (#9-12)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 4 (#13-16)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 5 (#17-20)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 6 (#21-22)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 7 (#23-27)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 8 (#28-31)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 9 (#38-40)

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