When was tmnt invented

Eastman drew a turtle standing up with nunchakus in its hand. It was the dumbest idea we ever had. I had invited comic book artists from New York and other places as my guests to draw people, but Kevin and Peter paid me for a table and paid to advertise using their turtles as characters in the ads.

At the time it just seemed like a goofy project to me. Who knew? They had done an initial 2, run, which they had printed in Somersworth. At one point I owned of those original black-and-white comic books, but eventually gave most of them away or cut them up to use as decoration. But DiBernardo, 50, is anything but bitter.

They showed up earlier this year at the store for Free Comic Book day. The more they thought about it, however, the more potential they saw in the offbeat concept. With their work on the first Fugitoid story coming to an end, the pair decided to make the Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles their next comic book project.

Drawing inspiration from some of their favorite contemporary comics, including Frank Miller's epic samurai adventure Ronin and his celebrated run on Marvel Comics' Daredevil — along with their mutual love of Jack Kirby — they set to work developing the Turtles universe.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' origin story paid homage to the first issue of Daredevil from , in which young Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive isotope while pushing an old blind man from the path of an oncoming truck. Eastman and Laird extrapolated that after the canister containing that isotope struck Murdock, it collided with a bystander who was carrying a fishbowl containing his pets — four baby turtles. The turtles and the canister, which bore the initials T.

Splinter had been the pet of the exiled ninja warrior Hamato Yoshi, who was slain along with his lover, Tang Shen, by the treacherous Oroku Saki, who blamed Yoshi for the death of his brother, Oroku Nagi. The Shredder took his design inspiration from a metal cheese grater that struck Eastman as a potential weapon in the hands of the wrong person. Using Laird's copy of Janson's History of Art for inspiration, the pair chose names for the Turtles from four of their favorite Renaissance artists: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael.

The Turtles returned in an animated series produced by 4Kids Entertainment, which ran from This time, co-creator Peter Laird had an active hand in the production, which resulted in a series that was much closer to the original comic book.

In , Eastman sold his stake in the Turtles to Laird, who in turn sold the rights to Viacom in A few years later, in , Viacom, through its subsidiary Nickelodeon, released a new CGI cartoon that is now into its second season, with a third season set to debut next year. The cartoon has been quite a hit, regularly ranking in the top 5 animated shows for kids ages Rob Paulsen who played Raphael in is Donatello this time.

But they were looking to get into the lucrative action figure market, so when TMNT's license manager Mark Freedman approached them, it was a perfect match. From — , Playmates produced around TMNT figures, as well as dozens of vehicles and playsets. Joe and Star Wars. Thanks to the Nickelodeon cartoon, the Turtles are back on toy shelves again.

In addition to toys, you can find our heroes in a half-shell on nearly every conceivable piece of merchandise possible, from birthday party supplies to beach towels to lunch boxes and toothbrushes. Looks like Turtlemania is here to stay. Although nearly all of the Turtles toys have been produced by Playmates, one exception has been LEGO, which started licensing the franchise in He has actually created his own style of Japanese swordsmanship called Shinkendo, which is currently being taught in 90 dojos across the world.

In came the computer-animated film TMNT. However, the negative feedback was enough for Bay to eventually put the project on hold for a rewrite. In the trailers that have been released, the Turtles appear much larger than in previous iterations, and they have a more human-turtle hybrid appearance, which has been met with mixed reactions from fans.

The film is set for an August release. Image credit: Peter Laird. Donatello gained psychic powers, but at the cost of his eyesight. Another, unrelated project was an R-rated film that would have featured roller-skating, semi-nude nuns with Uzis, battling the Turtles. The Turtles have been featured in 23 arcade and home video games since , on just about every console and computer system imaginable. Their self-titled debut is one of the best-selling NES games not made by Nintendo, with roughly 4 million copies sold, despite also being considered one of the toughest games for the NES.

The show debuted at Radio City Music Hall, then set out on a city tour across the country. However, if you missed the show, a live recording, as well as a making-of special, were available on VHS. For the never-produced fourth Turtles film, they created Kirby, named after their idol, Jack Kirby, a legendary comic book artist who helped develop The Avengers , Fantastic Four, X-Men , and other iconic superheroes.