Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #55 Terracide part one of three

Issue Description

The TMNT are flying home from Jerusalem in a cargo plane when it's attacked by a strange being with an eyeball for a head. The pilot is knocked unconscious by the creature's assault and the ship begins to plummet towards the ocean. At the Mutanimals' secret island, Future Raph and Future Don have come upon the dead bodies of their friends on the beach. As the Turtles ponder how the Mutanimals could have died at the wrong time, Slash arrives and attacks them, thinking that they murdered the Mutanimals. Before the alien turtle can kill the Future TMNT, Candy Fine arrives and explains what really happened After Future Don and Raph had finished helping the Mutanimals build their island base, the aliens Skul and Bean arrived and attacked.  

The Mutanimals defeated their old foes, but as soon as the battle was won, four more villains arrived (one of them being the werid eyeball dude who attacked the cargo plane) with guns. The criminals then shot the mutants to death. After the massacre, the villains got into Skul and Bean's spaceship and took off. Later, after the Mutanimals have been buried on the beach, Future Don, Future Raph, Slash and Candy board the Mutanimals' ship and head for New York City. On the way, Future Raph decides that he wants to fly by the cargo plane that their younger selves are on. Future Don dials the radio into air traffic control and discovers that the cargo plane has crashed into the ocean!

Future Don flies to the site of the wreck and sets the airship down to rescue the TMNT and Ninjara. Unfortunately the Coast Guard has also arrived on the scene and they've taken Michaelangelo! The guys decide to land on a nearby sandbar and make plans on how to rescue Mikey, but as soon as they've gotten off their ship, none other than the demon Null arrives - and he's brought the four gun-toting villains with him to shoot the rest of our heroes!

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)

Please first Sign In before leaving a review.

Status: Not in Collection