Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #3 Incredible Shrinking Turtles Part 1

Issue Description

The Turtles are outside practicing in a park when a strange orb crashlands into a nearby pond. The TMNT dive into the water and rescue a strange looking alien from the sinking globe. The Shredder is watching the whole episode while concealed within the brush. The alien revives long enough to tell the Turtles that some sort of artifact called "The Eye of Sarnath" had seperated into 3 parts during the crash. If these sections were to be joined together, they could be a terrible power on the Earth. The alien then gives the TMNT a device called the Crystal Converger that will help them locate the fragments of the Eye. Shredder overhears this, and sets off to find the pieces before the TMNT can. The Turtles follow the path given to them by the Converger, which leads to a garbage barge. The Heroes in a Half-Shell hop into the drek to search for the Eye fragments. Don retrieves a section, but then Shredder shows up and takes it. As the TMNT prepare to fight for the fragment of the artifact, Shredder inadvertently activates its powers and shrinks the Turtle boys down to action figure size!
Shredder prepares to squash our heroes, but they manage to escape with the Converger and make it home to the sewer. Splinter calls April for help, and the pair head off in the Turtle Van to find Saki and get the fragment from him before he can do more harm. Shredder reports to Krang that the Turtles have been defeated, but the ornery alien demands proof... which Shredder does not have. Saki decides to start shrinking buildings all over the city...

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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