The Turtles' redefining comic-book adventures - TMNT comics 

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This series is like what if the cartoon Turtles gradually evolved into the Mirage Turtles. It also added so many great things to the franchise and needs more love than it gets.

Without the awesome Archie Comics..I wouldn't have Armmagon! Not only a favorite villain, but an awesome fighter in TMNT Tournament Fighters!

Once it moved away from the cartoon series and became it's own thing Archie comics were really good. As a kid It was the Archie comics and movies that kept me into Turtles after I quickly got bored of the repetitive cartoon. The Future Shark Trilogy being my favorite story.

Adventures was a legitimately great TMNT book. I love that initial original storyline of #5-13, how it all ties together and how much it expands and defines that version of the Turtles. Then you had great stories like the Null/Malgina/Mutanimals arc, and the world tour with Ninjara, and United We Stand Divided We Fall, and the Future Shark Trilogy. I also dug the Mutanimals book its brief run, and the specials like Donatello & Leatherhead or the first April O'Neil trilogy. Just an all around under-appreciated version of the Turtles that contributed a lot to later versions, particularly IDW.

Imagine if Ken Penders was writing a TMNT Adventure Comics.

Great episode, the Archie series was part of what made TMNT awesome fun - good memories.

I have to be honest, TMNT Adventures was (and still is) my favorite comic book series from back in the day. I would ask my comic book store to add it to my hold box, they would say you know this is the "Archie" version, don't you want the Mirage, and I would say I love this series. Never missed an issue. I loved Ninjara and her relationship with Raphael, I loved all of the various characters.

It is the best and my Favorite TMNT Comic Series ever! It showed the best of Adventures of our Four Turtles and Introducing The Mighty Mutanimals and my Favorite above all else: Ninjara aka Umeko. It showed a Realistic view and to Motivate us to Protect the Environment in order to make a Better Future for the world as you can see the Bad Future side of the world 100 years Prior. It was so sad... It was the Accursed Toyline Requirement that led to the Mutanimals Massacre by Null and his Four Mercenaries... And the Departure of Ninjara breaking up with Raphael when things got too heated and dark in the last arcs. Then it got Cancelled Stopping the Final Arc called the Forever War and replacing it with two final issues of the young turtles of how they got there weapons... And a Sequel three part series afterwards... However as the TMNT Fandom is still strong to this day, The Forever war arc is happening and still needs to be completed as they've done the first chapter. Please make it happen as the TMNT Adventures Archie series will finally get its true ending and to give there world a better Future with Evergreen and Everblue for Future Generations to thrive! Just like in Sonic CD! TMNT Adventures Forever for the Great Divine of TMNT lore...

These were the first comics I ever read. I have a good sized collection from my youth as well as collecting as an adult. I'm surprised how popular these comics have become recently

All roads lead back to mirage. No matter how much a new entry in this franchise wants to do their own thing, all of them eventually become gritty, violent, and full of philosophical debates.

Archie Comics adapted their version of the pizza-loving sewer-dwelling reptiles from the 1987-1996 TMNT animated cartoon TV series, leaving behind the satire of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book. In their hands the comic immediately diverged from the cartoon series into unique new story arcs, often incorporating social, environmentalist, and animal-rights themes. It also introduced several new characters of various races and backgrounds, including humans, mutants, aliens, and other anthropomorphic creatures. Additionally, the series added new layers to established players such as April O'Neil, who began training with a katana, and the Shredder, who gradually revealed a sense of honor. The stories were often seen as 'deeper' and more 'serious' than the cartoon. As the new tales and characters were explored, original antagonists Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady were eventually phased out early, making later appearances during stories involving alien worlds. Shredder would remain a recurring adversary. Running from 7 years 1988 to 1995, the series ran for 72 issues. Archie did publish a final mini-series named "Year of the Turtle" from January to March 1996, ran for 3 issues; in addition, there were numerous annuals, specials and miniseries. Archie did reprint the ongoing series in a digest format series titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Classics Digest which they published quarterly from 1993 to 1994, lasting 7 issues, with every digest reprinting three issues each, collecting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Vol. 2) issues #5-#25. In celebration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' 25th Anniversary, Archie Comics released a 104-page, full-color trade paperback collection of the three issue mini-series #1-3 in 2009, which was the adaptation of the original animated show's miniseries "Heroes in a Half Shell". Mirage Studios also printed a trade for the 25th anniversary, titled Future Tense reprinting Mighty Mutanimals #7 and TMNT Adventures #42-44 and #62-66 in July 2009. Future Tense was released to coincide with a planned release of the storyline from Mirage entitled Forever War, but this eventually was canceled.

My parents grabbed me one of these comics and it came with a cassette. I used to listen to that cassette almost daily while re-reading the comic over and over

This wasn’t the last time an Archie kids comic went off the rails… Sonic went off the rails when TMNT ended.

That Archie series was wild. It was like one moment everything looked on model with the show and light hearted, then bam! The turtles looked more like the DiC battleoads and Null guns the Mutanimals down, and Adolf shows up. I also never realized just how fixated the Archie series was on protecting the environment.

NECA brought me here, and I can say I am not disappointed

As with many other localizations, reading these stories translated into Swedish was such a weird experience at the time. When the TMNT Adventures were canceled in the US, the Swedish TMHT book was still very popular, so when they ran out of new stories to publish they just started reprinting old filler stories with new covers and leaving the readers ignorant of that it was all over.

I just remember being blown away by issues with turtles with eye patches, turtles with same color bandanas in the same scene, and the stories. As a kid, this was a nuts way to expand the universe. I gotta get these collected.

I love how they were tasked with making a tmnt book for kids and those pesky turtles writers just couldn't help but shove in as much dark and weird bullshit as they could LMAO

That was absolutely fascinating. I barely remember reading the British reprints as a kid and probably haven’t thought of characters like Ace Duck and screw loose in summat like 33? Years! They helped form my abiding love of all comics. Great vid 😄

hell of a time to be a turtle fan right now lol

Lol love how the narrator called him “scumbag” not scumbug

Love both the 1987 TMNT series and the Archie comics ❤

I _really_ like and appreciate the neutral and unbiased ways you explain these characters. It's one of the many reasons why I *LOVE* this channel _so much._ Thanks for giving such detailed info and for respecting both the property and the fan base. I can tell that this channel is being handled by genuine Turtle fan(s)! 💚 For me, I was never a fan of the Archie comic-verse Turtles; the art style wasn't really my cup of tea, and after a while (what with all the animals) it seemed like it was starting to become less about the Turtles' adventure with The Shredder and his Foot Clan in favor of a more "furry" themed story with all the animal characters. (Nothing wrong with Furries, but I just didn't have much interest in a full on cast of animal characters.) Still, I enjoyed learning about the direction the team went in with these comics. I wonder if kids/parents ever got confused when they went to buy a TMNT comic; like, since this was being sold concurrently along with the Mirage version, did they [the parents] ever accidentally buy the Mirage version _instead_ of the more kid friendly Archie-version?

1:01 - I'm pretty sure Dave Garcia went on to become Doug Dimmadome!

Nice video, thanks !

Not sure to if I want to complete this run or Usagi vol. 1?

3:46 - that art scares me

I loved this series

Littl disappointed Scul & Bean were not mentioned

It was so brutal that they killed the Mutanimals like that, seriously wtf!?!? Were they just trying to be edgy? that pissed me off, let's just kill them off even though the series is ending. seriously tainted my fond memories of that series as a kid. I stopped reading them right before they killed of the mutanimals.

I love how some of the comics make the characters look like they came straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.

I notice Amazon has the entire comic series on kindle but the paperback is hard to find.

I'm surprise that you didn't mention Katmandu, He is a four armed mutant tiger that teams up with the turtles, and Al'Falqa a mutant falcon who also teams up with the turtles in the comic. There are a lot of other characters that did not get any mention, Like in the future timeline, Future Raph was married to a mutant coyote name Mezcaal.

It's a shame there aren't any trade or hardcover collections of this run.

I believe that shredder’s revenge could have been a good way to end the forever war

I always loved Bebop & Rocksteady.(Rocksteady being my favorite and one of my first figures) I preferred the way they looked and acted in the first few episodes. Bigger, stronger and Rocksteady with his camo & helmet. When they finally showed up in a live action movie they were the best part of the movie but didn’t fight the “toitles” enough

What was going on on those Archie comics man? Gawdamn

Where can i find the backround song i cant find it anywhere specifically

Shame not all the stories were collected due to poncy ''modern sensibilities'' of the feeble minded.

Tmnt adventures comic series is still cool today. 😀👍🐢

Who was the voice for Krang in the audio cassette? He makes Krang sound like Dr. Claw.

I'm only Complaint with Archie TMNT Adventures is that there is No Casey Jones, who never Appeared until like Fricking 2024 in IDW's TMNT 40th Anniversary Comic

FYI Dreadmon is an Aardwolf

In my country they stopped releasing the comics before the end - it was so confusing for me as a kid. The turtles were still very popular here and we never got any conclusion, it was a super cliffhanger.

No one has yet to do a video on why Raphael turned black in the Archie series.

Archie Ninja Turtles fans had it better than Archie Sonic fans.

The Forever War is currently being published by a third party, pencilled by Chris Allan.

I know about the Forever War storyline being brought back by fans, in fact I actually have the 4 existing issues. I’m still waiting for the final issue to release, but it’s taking much more time to release than you do to respond to my replies and comments. BTW, how would The Forever War be like with Chris Pratt? Edit: I finally have the entire story via hardcover!!!

3:50 if jagwar speaker Spanish that means he is Latino and could be from every other except Brazil speaks Portuguese