BeardedBubba Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) On 2/20/2024 at 8:33 PM, Turtle said: The items that take a long to to get/finish are always the most exciting to me. This is one of those. This is a print done in the late 80's by the Mirage Studios artists minus Eastman and Laird showing the turtles and many of the supporting cast at the time. I love the way the different styles come together in one piece. The print itself is quite limited. In fact, I believe there are 2 versions of it with this one being the more common of the two. Anyway, my goal was to get this one signed by all the contributing artists. I've been slowly adding to this for years and today I finally have it finished: Left to right, there's Steve Lavigne Dan Berger Ryan Brown A.C. Farley Eric Talbot Jim Lawson Michael Dooney THAT is absolutely incredible. I don't get jealous often but I am now. I'm not familiar with this print. What is the history behind it? I'd love to track one down someday. Edited February 21 by BeardedBubba SpideyFein 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybuck43 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 2/20/2024 at 8:33 PM, Turtle said: The items that take a long to to get/finish are always the most exciting to me. This is one of those. This is a print done in the late 80's by the Mirage Studios artists minus Eastman and Laird showing the turtles and many of the supporting cast at the time. I love the way the different styles come together in one piece. The print itself is quite limited. In fact, I believe there are 2 versions of it with this one being the more common of the two. Anyway, my goal was to get this one signed by all the contributing artists. I've been slowly adding to this for years and today I finally have it finished: Left to right, there's Steve Lavigne Dan Berger Ryan Brown A.C. Farley Eric Talbot Jim Lawson Michael Dooney Any reason you didn't add Kevin and Pete to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 2/23/2024 at 10:01 AM, jaybuck43 said: Any reason you didn't add Kevin and Pete to it? I considered it, but decided against it since they didn’t contribute any art to the actual piece. This was all done by Mirage Artists minus the co-creators themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeasOfCrap Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Did anyone need Portsmouth VIPs for Sunday, it looks like ill be doing college visits that weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Michael Dooney just got added to the PMC40! I'm hoping for Dan Berger to show up as well. He was just at the Great Lakes Comic Con and he is considering it, but really hates flying. I'll keep my fingers crossed. TMNTDude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybuck43 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 On 2/26/2024 at 8:35 PM, Turtle said: Michael Dooney just got added to the PMC40! I'm hoping for Dan Berger to show up as well. He was just at the Great Lakes Comic Con and he is considering it, but really hates flying. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Are you coming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 On 2/27/2024 at 10:20 AM, jaybuck43 said: Are you coming? Saturday! You? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Can anyone tell me a bit about the Creed/ Turtles crossovers? I'm not familiar with Creed. I know that in the early days, Eastman and Laird lent out their characters but these are from 1996. I thought I was bidding on three Direct copies, but it turns out one was the Gold version and one was Platinum. I paid $20 for the three, but I can't find many price points. There are only about a dozen slabbed copies of the two polybagged versions. Is there a demand for these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich_TMNT Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) @shadroch The Creed and TMNT crossover is a unique one. That issue had the most variant covers for a TMNT book until IDW started publishing in 2011. But, the crossover itself came to existence from Trent Kaniuga asking Peter Laird for permission to put Turtles in his Creed property. Lightning didn't have an ongoing Turtles title or anything but Image was just starting TMNT Vol. III at this time so Peter must have been thinking it was good for business. Here's a neat bit of info. about this directly from Trent. There are seven different variants for the Creed and TMNT crossover, with the Subscriber's Hybrid (Blue/Bronze) edition being the most rare version - although the Signed & Numbered edition with COA is pretty rare as well. The Subscriber's edition was limited to only 500 copies and was available only to those that held a subscription with Lightning Comics at the time. I'll list the variants here for you with print runs but you can see images here on my site. Trent Kaniuga Edition - regular/main cover Peter Laird Edition - regular/variant Laird cover American Entertainment Exclusive - limited to 3,000 (with numbered COA) Platinum Edition - limited to 2,000 (with numbered COA) Gold Collector's Edition - limited to 1,200 (with numbered COA) Signed & Numbered Edition - limited to 700 (with numbered COA) Subscriber's Direct Hybrid (Blue/Bronze) Edition - limited to 500 (with COA) Edited February 28 by rich_TMNT shadroch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybuck43 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 On 2/27/2024 at 2:14 PM, Turtle said: Saturday! You? Yea I just did Saturday as well. I had offered to bring art but they said their insurance wasn't keen on the idea. O well. Thought it would be fun to put together a gallery of major pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 On 2/28/2024 at 8:15 AM, rich_TMNT said: @shadroch The Creed and TMNT crossover is a unique one. That issue had the most variant covers for a TMNT book until IDW started publishing in 2011. But, the crossover itself came to existence from Trent Kaniuga asking Peter Laird for permission to put Turtles in his Creed property. Lightning didn't have an ongoing Turtles title or anything but Image was just starting TMNT Vol. III at this time so Peter must have been thinking it was good for business. Here's a neat bit of info. about this directly from Trent. There are seven different variants for the Creed and TMNT crossover, with the Subscriber's Hybrid (Blue/Bronze) edition being the most rare version - although the Signed & Numbered edition with COA is pretty rare as well. The Subscriber's edition was limited to only 500 copies and was available only to those that held a subscription with Lightning Comics at the time. I'll list the variants here for you with print runs but you can see images here on my site. Trent Kaniuga Edition - regular/main cover Peter Laird Edition - regular/variant Laird cover American Entertainment Exclusive - limited to 3,000 (with numbered COA) Platinum Edition - limited to 2,000 (with numbered COA) Gold Collector's Edition - limited to 1,200 (with numbered COA) Signed & Numbered Edition - limited to 700 (with numbered COA) Subscriber's Direct Hybrid (Blue/Bronze) Edition - limited to 500 (with COA) Do you have any idea about the numbers on variants 1 and 2? Would you consider these must-have books or just interesting after-thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich_TMNT Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 On 2/28/2024 at 10:11 AM, shadroch said: Do you have any idea about the numbers on variants 1 and 2? Would you consider these must-have books or just interesting after-thoughts? I don't know the print quantities of these two but they were the two main covers for the book and so they were likely much higher print quantities than any of the limited editions. I remember seeing those two covers in back-issue bins for years and years after release so I don't think they are all that rare. Still cool though. I personally think these books are must-have for TMNT comic collectors. They are a neat part of TMNT comics in the late 90's when TMNT was waning in popularity. shadroch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Turtle Posted March 1 Popular Post Share Posted March 1 I really like the Ultimate Collection line of TMNT Hardcovers. They're a nice, easy way to read the stories and I like the way they compile them. For anyone that knows Volume 1, the main story is pretty spread out and punctuated by "guest issues". The Ultimate Collection books keeps storylines together and groups guest issues together where it makes sense. Then Volume 6 collects a ton of short stories that were originally printed as backup stories in other books. I try to get these books signed when I can. Here's what I have so far: Volume 1: Volume 2: Volume 3: Volume 4: Volume 5: Volume 6: Volume 7: Jose2099, spracknetch23, srezvan and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/29/2024 at 8:56 PM, Turtle said: I really like the Ultimate Collection line of TMNT Hardcovers. They're a nice, easy way to read the stories and I like the way they compile them. For anyone that knows Volume 1, the main story is pretty spread out and punctuated by "guest issues". The Ultimate Collection books keeps storylines together and groups guest issues together where it makes sense. Then Volume 6 collects a ton of short stories that were originally printed as backup stories in other books. I try to get these books signed when I can. Here's what I have so far: Volume 1: Volume 2: Volume 3: Volume 4: Volume 5: Volume 6: Volume 7: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpyreDave Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/28/2024 at 10:15 AM, rich_TMNT said: @shadroch The Creed and TMNT crossover is a unique one. That issue had the most variant covers for a TMNT book until IDW started publishing in 2011. But, the crossover itself came to existence from Trent Kaniuga asking Peter Laird for permission to put Turtles in his Creed property. Lightning didn't have an ongoing Turtles title or anything but Image was just starting TMNT Vol. III at this time so Peter must have been thinking it was good for business. Here's a neat bit of info. about this directly from Trent. There are seven different variants for the Creed and TMNT crossover, with the Subscriber's Hybrid (Blue/Bronze) edition being the most rare version - although the Signed & Numbered edition with COA is pretty rare as well. The Subscriber's edition was limited to only 500 copies and was available only to those that held a subscription with Lightning Comics at the time. I'll list the variants here for you with print runs but you can see images here on my site. Trent Kaniuga Edition - regular/main cover Peter Laird Edition - regular/variant Laird cover American Entertainment Exclusive - limited to 3,000 (with numbered COA) Platinum Edition - limited to 2,000 (with numbered COA) Gold Collector's Edition - limited to 1,200 (with numbered COA) Signed & Numbered Edition - limited to 700 (with numbered COA) Subscriber's Direct Hybrid (Blue/Bronze) Edition - limited to 500 (with COA) Here are the first two listed. If I find my Creed stash I’ll see if I have any of the other ones. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srezvan Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I recently picked up this TMNT TPB at a new used bookstore. It looks to be pretty hard to find. It was on a restock shelf, so it either just came in or someone was putting it back. Some damage to the front cover. Either way, a steal for $7! ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 On 3/1/2024 at 11:37 PM, srezvan said: I recently picked up this TMNT TPB at a new used bookstore. It looks to be pretty hard to find. It was on a restock shelf, so it either just came in or someone was putting it back. Some damage to the front cover. Either way, a steal for $7! Nice! The artist for that story, Chris Allan, just got announced as a guest for the Portsmouth Mini Con in April. Are you going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srezvan Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 On 3/2/2024 at 8:01 AM, Turtle said: Nice! The artist for that story, Chris Allan, just got announced as a guest for the Portsmouth Mini Con in April. Are you going? Unfortunately, I'm not. I moved from the east coast a few years ago, or I would have made the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeardedBubba Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 I just saw that CGC facilitators will be at Portsmouth mini-con to witness signatures. Missing this is going to be my biggest Turtles fandom regret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybuck43 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 On 3/12/2024 at 9:38 AM, BeardedBubba said: I just saw that CGC facilitators will be at Portsmouth mini-con to witness signatures. Missing this is going to be my biggest Turtles fandom regret. Can you post a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
