Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #59 Blind Sight part 1 of 2

Issue Description

Tabloid TV reporter McIntyre attempts to use his show "Inside Affair" to cast the TMNT in a very negative light to the American public. McIntyre describes the Turtles as violent monsters and he has April on the show to discuss his accusations. The treacherous TV reporter twists April's words to make the TMNT seem like a menace, but April has her own trick prepared - Oyuki goes into the control room and seduces Squint, the show's producer. While Squint is preoccupied with Oyuki, she slips a video tape into the deck which is broadcast over the air and portrays how the U.S. government had tortured Mikey to get information while they had him in custody on the Coast Guard ship. The video also shows how Leo and Don were able to rescue their brother, and how Mikey, despite all that he'd been through, saved the life of the doctor who tortured him. The audience reacts wildly in favor of the the Turtles and applauds their heroics. McIntyre is steamed and vows to get even with April as the Turtles are greeted by multitudes of fans on the streets of New York City.

(note there was also a Mirage story arc titled Blind Sight, in it Leonardo was the blinded turtle not Mikey)

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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