Tmnt Mirage Comics
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'Now if only Someone would publish them in that order.' It would be cool if whoever gains eventually gains the right to reprint TMNT comics would collect all the Mirage stuff in this order, and have each collected book contain one of the eras in your timeline (though some eras, particularly, volumes 3 and 4, would take at least 2-3 books to contain them in a good, affordable package). The only real problems I could see would be the issues of vol. Oh, and would the TMNT's crossovers with Flaming Carrot (both in issues #25-27 of FC's Dark Horse-published comic, and later in a 4-part full color miniseries published by Mirage with story by FC creator Bob Burden and art by Jim Lawson) count, seeing as how you included Savage Dragon #41, which FC also appears in? I hear that the Turtles were in a book called Phantasy Against Hunger and in issue one of Shadow of the Groundhog, but I don't know in what context.
It might be in your best interest to find out. There's also the second and third Last of the Viking Heroes Summer Specials, which I don't own and and have only seen a few scans of on Go Green Machine.com.
It seems the Turtles's outfits are color coded like in the OT in these books, so they're probably not meant to be part of the Mirage canon, though for I know they maybe could with some fudging. 'This is partly due to creator ownership rights, as Mirage does not own any of the characters created for these stories by the guest artists.'
Actually outside of Rick Veitch's stuff and Rick Arthur's work with Lucindra (in which Arthur owns the new characters established in the stories but otherwise did as work-for-hire), the only guest written stories in this timeline which Mirage didn't own the characters from are 'Apparition' and TMNT Vol. 1 #43: 'Hall of Lost Legends' (and in the latter's case, A.C. Farley signed away his rights, but Paul Jenkins didn't). Jediofjah@hotmail.com said. Hey Mark, amazing body of work. I've been collecting all of the mirage turtles and putting them into correct order according to this and i am missing just a few and its driving me nuts.
I've googled the shit out of it and come up dry. I'm hoping to find scans of the following: Tales v2 04 - The Grape Tales Vol. 1 TPB 2007 - Spinal Tapped and Frontispieces and Epilogue Tales Vol. 1 TPB 1989 - 'untitled Nobody story' Casey Jones North by Downeast (#1-#2) as you can imagine, having all but 6 out of over 300 stories is very frustrating for the ocd in me. I dont know where else to look as the wife wont let me buy them lol. Help me, Mark, you're my only hope! Thank you for your time -Spencer Kapp jediofjah@hotmail.com.
500 Days Of Summer Subtitrat. Congratulations on accomplishing this list man. I tried putting one together like this ages ago and it took me a really long time too but I took the wrong approach and miserably failed. I would probably approach it in a completely different way if I tried to make one today but I lost the will to do it, lol. Mostly because of the time it had already consumed. I'm glad you were able to finish yours.
I think I have a fair notion about how hard something like this can be and I just wanted to say: Awesome job man, my hat's off to you. In Ask PL #15 at Peter Laird's TMNT blog, I asked him what the canonical significance of the ('non-canon') River trilogy is in the Mirage timeline, because their events are referenced in ('canon') Sons of the Silent Age. He replied that the River trilogy actually fits nicely in the Mirage timeline, but also clarified that this is only his own opinion. He seemed to imply that he's no longer the authority to ask about is or is not considered part of the official Mirage TMNT timeline. I honestly did not expect to be told this, since I'd been assuming he still decides Mirage's TMNT canon since the terms of the sale to Viacom still allow him to keep publishing TMNT comics. Our correspondence is in the Ask PL #15 thread. How would you say this affects the 'canon' status of the River trilogy in your list?
I have been using your list, and I have to say it has helped immensely! I have adapted it to how I see fit, though, leaving out all the non-canon stuff (especially the vol. 1 guest era and Turtle Soup - I actually can't stand most of those), a lot of the cross overs and some back-up stories that bear no real relevance. I am now on volume 3, and so far I have to say, my favourite parts have been the canon issues at the start and end of vol. 1, and Tales of the TMNT vol. 1 and most of the Tales of the TMNT vol.
2 (at least, what I have read so far, given your continuity order). I have no regard for volumes 2 and 3 whatsoever, and can honestly see why it was cancelled after 23 issues of vol. 3 under Image. Recently, about how many underground lairs the turtles had. By your timeline, there would have to be at least three. However, the lair they live in after the events of 'Return to New York' and before the events of 'City at War' is never shown being discovered or abandoned, whereas there are events depicting the abandonment of the first lair (after the second issue) and discovery of the third lair (at the beginning of volume 2). And I realized something else: What if the stories that take place in the second lair.actually take place after the events of volume 2, and there really were just two lairs instead of three?