Turtlemania Special #1 [Gold Edition]
(1986)

Metropolis Publishing, 1986 Series
 
Volume
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Price
0.00 FREE
Pages
32
Indicia Frequency
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Indicia / Colophon Publisher
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Brand
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Barcode
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Editing
Robert Wilson

Issue Notes

Limited edition booklet that features unpublished T.M.N.T. artwork and exclusive previews of then upcoming stories. The material gathered for this publication was provided directly to Robert Wilson by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. Turtlemania was produced in three editions: Regular (print run of 3,000 with white covers); Silver #1 (print run of 100, autographed); Gold (print run of 10, autographed with original sketch on back cover).
This issue is a variant of Turtlemania Special (Metropolis Publishing, 1986 series) #1. There exist further variants:
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Editorial (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
Robert Wilson
Pencils
Kevin Eastman
Inks
Kevin Eastman
Letters
typeset
Characters
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Indexer Notes

Robert Wilson reveals the work involved with publishing this fanzine.

Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

Cerebus / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird; Dave Sim
Inks
Dave Sim (on Cerebus character only)
Letters
typeset
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Table of contents page that features one sketch panel of Cerebus facing off against one Ninja Turtle. Entire panel is a rough sketch with only Cerebus being inked to include screened tones of grey.

The panel comes from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage, 1984 series) #8 (July 1986).

Turtletalk (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Wilson
Pencils
Kevin Eastman
Inks
Kevin Eastman
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Text article regarding the print runs of all Mirage Publications as well as snipets of private conversations had between Laird, Eastman and Wilson.

TMNT Pinup Gallery (Table of Contents: 4)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / illustration / 7 pages (report information)

Pencils
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird
Inks
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero; adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts

Corben TMNT Preview (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Kevin Eastman
Pencils
Richard Corben
Inks
Richard Corben
Letters
?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

Rogues Gallery (Table of Contents: 6)

illustration / 6 pages (report information)

Pencils
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird; Bob Burden
Inks
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird; Bob Burden
Characters
Cerebus; Flaming Carrot; Casey Jones

TMNT/Cerebus Preview (Table of Contents: 7)

Cerebus; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird; Dave Sim
Pencils
Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird; Dave Sim
Inks
Dave Sim; Gerhard; Michael Dooney
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; adventure; martial arts; superhero
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Sketch preview with only the Cerebus character inked with screened tones.

Donatello: Preview (Table of Contents: 8)

Donatello / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Pencils
Peter Laird
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Rough sketch pages for this one-shot.

[Advertisement] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Peter Laird
Inks
Peter Laird
Genre
superhero; adventure; anthropomorphic-funny animals; martial arts

Indexer Notes

Two small character drawings.

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Table of Contents
  1. 1. Editorial
  2. 2. Table of Contents
    Cerebus
  3. 3. Turtletalk
  4. 4. TMNT Pinup Gallery
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  5. 5. Corben TMNT Preview
  6. 6. Rogues Gallery
  7. 7. TMNT/Cerebus Preview
    Cerebus; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  8. 8. Donatello: Preview
    Donatello
  9. 9. [Advertisement]
  10. 10. [no title indexed]
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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