Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #62 Dreamland Part 1 of 5 / The Angel of Times Square

Issue Description

The five part "Dreamland" story takes place in the future and features the future versions of the TMNT in their Cyber Samurai gear.

Verminator X hacks into the Hubble Space Telescope and spots an alien ship heading towards Earth...

On the surface of the planet (which is flooded due to global warming), Raph wakes from a nightmare and is consoled by his wife (I think), Mezcaal (who looks alot like Raph's former girlfriend, Ninjara). Menawhile, Donatello is working on the Time-Slip Generator that Armaggon had fouled up when he broke into Turtleco. While trying to make repairs, Don discovers that a human brain has been hooked up to the teleportation device. The techy turtle attempts to disconnect the brain and it projects a view of Nazi Germany on the Time-Slip Generator. The machine then causes a power surge and Donatello shuts it down, just as Leo calls on a giant projection screen. Leonardo explains to Don that he and his students were patrolling the city when they came upon some well armed bandits stealing gyroscope parts. Leo's team easily defeated the thieves, but when the ninja master attempted to question them, they all took pills that caused them to vaporize. Leonardo explains that there must be something more complex going on than meets the eye, if the thieves were willing to die rather than talk. The Turtles' leader tells his brother that the four should assemble and investigate.

Mikey is drawing comics at Gabrielle's Orphanage (owned and operated by Turtleco) when Donatello arrives in his Cyber Samurai exosuit. Back at Raph and Mez's night club, Leonardo explains the situation to Raph and the two join their brothers to do some patrolling.

"Dreamland Part 1 of 5" written by Clarrain, penciled by Allan, inked by D'Agostino, lettered by Fields and colored by Grossman.Centerfold poster."The Angel of Times Square" written by Dean Clarrain, penciled and inked by Gray Morrow, lettered by G. Fields and colored by B. Grossman.One page pinup featuring Ninjara by Matt Roach.

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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