Table of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character appearances

This table shows a list of characters and their appearances on nine of the major incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) franchise.

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Origins

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles originated in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984. The concept arose from a humorous drawing sketched out by Kevin Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming with his friend Peter Laird. Using money from a tax refund together with a loan from Eastman's uncle, the young artists self-published a single issue comic intended to parody four of the most popular comics of the early 1980s: Marvel Comics' "Daredevil" and "New Mutants", Dave Sim's "Cerebus" and Frank Miller's "Ronin". [cite web|url=http://www.heavymetal.com/page.cfm?id=262|title=I Was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle|date=2007-01-26]

Much of the Turtles' mainstream success is owed to licensing and wider merchandising opportunities for the offbeat property. Including action figures and a popular "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " animated series. At the height of the frenzy, the Turtles' likenesses could be found on a wide range of children's merchandise, from PEZ dispensers to skateboards, breakfast cereal, toothpaste, school supplies and cameras. A new resurgence in the Turtles' popularity is due to the recent animated series, a new line of Playmates action figures, Konami and Ubisoft's video games, and a computer-animated feature film.

Table

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:"This list is of appearances, a brief mentioning or reference is not counted."

Notes

* Eastman, Kevin (2002). "Kevin Eastman's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography". Los Angeles: Heavy Metal. ISBN 1-882931-85-8.
* Wiater, Stanley (1991). "The Official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Treasury". New York: Villard. ISBN 0-679-73484-8.