Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #1 Return of The Shredder Part 1

Issue Description

Leo and Mikey are shopping in disguise when two thugs attempt to rob the grocery store that they're in. Of course, our helpful heroes aren't going to stand around and let the theives get away with this, so they quickly put the wrap on the punks. April covers the robbery for the news once Leo and Mikey have vanished. Then the Turtle lads head for home to have some well earned pizza. Meanwhile in Dimension X, Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop implore Krang to return them to Earth, so that they can seek revenge against the Turtles. Krang allows Saki to gate through to our planet, but cruelly forbids the bumbling henchmen a trip home. April has a run-in with her boss Mr. Thompson, who's convinced that the Turtles are a menace to society. April storms off, determined to prove that the Green Team truly are heroes. Master Splinter gets a premonition that something horrible is about to happen... the Shredder is going to return! Sure enough, at a park in New York, Saki makes his entrance via the portal. Two hapless muggers attempt to rob Shredder, who quickly defeats them in battle. The two crooks give Shredder all of their cash and flee in terror! Saki decides to check in with Krang, who tells the nefarious ninja that he's on his own in his attempt to destroy the TMNT. Saki decides that he'll need a little help, so he intimidates a local karate school into assisting him. The next day at Channel 6 News, Vernon tries to impress Mr. Thompson with a story that he's taped... but of course the story is terrible and Mr. Thompson gets angry. In his rage, Thompson orders April to go dig up the dirt on the Turtles' conspiracy. This makes April mad and she storms off once again, all the more determined to set the record straight that the TMNT are good guys! Meanwhile, Shredder has put his plan into action. Saki forces the the Karate students to dress up in turtle costumes and rob a bank. Shredder hopes that this will defame the Turtles and thus he will have his revenge. But when Saki calls Krang to report this "good" news, the antisocial alien is not pleased and screams at Shredder. Krang tells Saki not to bother him until the ninja villain has real progress to report.

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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