Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #52 Gross Monsters Issue
Cover Date: January, 1994
McIntyre and his assistant Squint have followed April to the sewers. Beneath the streets, April, Oyuki, Don and Raph investigate a bizarre, organic mass of unknown origin. April explains that she and Oyuki had come down to investigate a series of gold an ...
Issue Description
McIntyre and his assistant Squint have followed April to the sewers. Beneath the streets, April, Oyuki, Don and Raph investigate a bizarre, organic mass of unknown origin. April explains that she and Oyuki had come down to investigate a series of gold and jewelry robberies when they stumbled upon the object. While our heroes explore the area, Raph finds a life-sized crystal rat. Donatello discovers that the mass is a series of membranes, like skin. As he prods into the mound with his staff, he discovers a stockpile of gold bars. Something in the darkness is watching them...
Elsewhere in the sewers, McIntyre and Squint are searching for April and the Turtles when they come upon the area where Wyrm and Scumbug had fought. The men discover a weakened Scumbug, who sits in the water immobilized by hundreds of little wyrms that are sucking the life out of him. Scumbug pleads with the men to get the wyrms off of him. Upon spotting the humans, the little wyrms begin to coalesce and form into one giant monster - the one known as Wyrm (who else?)
April and the Turtles are attacked by a weird spider-headed beast calling itself Toxzeem, who demands that our heroes drop the gold and get away from its ship. Oyuki records the events on her video camera as April excitedly directs her to keep the lens off the Turtles as much as possible.
Free of the mini-wyrms, Scumbug leaps to his feet and attacks Wyrm. McIntyre excitedly directs Squint to get the battle on tape.
Toxzeem pulls a laser pistol out and begins firing and Don and Raph, who retreat deeper into the sewers with Arpil and Oyuki in tow.
Wyrm tells Scumbug to stop his attack, as he was only doing what he needed to do to survive - just as Scumbug would have done if their roles were reversed. Wyrm then points to the two reporters and states that they'll make a swell dinner for the two monsters. McIntyre and Squint run away in terror, the beasts close on their backs.
Both groups collide with one another in an intersection. Toxzeem clashes with Wyrm, who deems the alien a tasty morsel and asks Scumbug to help him take it down. As the creatures close on the alien, Toxzeem fires his gun at them, turning both into crystalized statues. Raph throws his sai and it pierces the pistol, destroying it. Weaponless, Toxzeem runs away. The Turtles chase their adversary, but he makes it to his ship and blasts off before they can stop him.
April, Oyuki, McIntyre and Squint arrive. Raph takes Squint's camera and breaks the tape over the man's head. Donatello screams at McIntyre to leave the TMNT alone - that he's way over his head getting involved with them, as he could have easily died tonight. The Turtles and their friends then stalk off.
McIntyre states that the night isn't a complete bust - at least they have the crystalized Wyrm and Scumbug to do a show about - but as they try to move the bodies, the crystals shatter into millions of pieces.
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.
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