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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Black & White Classics Vol. 1 Kindle & comiXology

by Kevin B. Eastman (Author, Artist), Peter Laird (Author, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
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Master Splinter tells the turtles of his life with Hamato Yoshi, a master of the art of Ninjitsu. He shares the story of his master's murder and asks them to avenge this death and kill the one responsible, the man known as...Shredder!

Originally published by Mirage Studios as TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #1-3 and the one-issue RAPHAEL MICRO-SERIES.
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    June 5, 2012
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HYIC6GC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ IDW (June 5, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 391315 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 143 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
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Casey G. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Great to see the true origins of TMNT
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019
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Wow! So may revelations that I won’t spoil, but if you are a TMNT fan (especially from the 80’s cartoon) this is worth checking out.
It’s interesting to see what the original TV show and movie chose to use and to leave out from the comic.
Gritty, engaging and fun!
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Daron
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019
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Awesome ! What an amazing comic book. I love teenage mutant ninja turtles especially the original comics

I give this 5 star for sure
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019
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I loved reading this. It's the original story, cheesier than ever. So much fun! It's amazing what two guys did with some ink and a dream.
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Fanwithoutfear67
4.0 out of 5 stars COWABUNGA
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023
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I love the original turtle comics. Much more serious than the animated show that thrusted these guy's into the sensation they have become.
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StealthKnow
5.0 out of 5 stars Own it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015
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Intellect. Teach for the sake of government.
The children grow and the old get wiser. Autumn harmonies. The tide signals the death, a coda is to make a run through of the skin. Time to make finer noodles!
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Taylor Ash
5.0 out of 5 stars you hear it all the time, but if you love tmnt DEFINITELY check out its first run!
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2022
Finally getting a chance to sit down and read the original version of the turtles. I grew up with all versions of the cartoons, the games, and a few of the toys but haven’t had a chance to read the original Eastman and Laird run. I love this version of the turtles! I was worried it was gonna feel too “Frank Miller-ey” (and frankly… it is) but their personalities still shine through despite all red headbands or black and whit in the case of this book. You hear it all the time but if you are a Turtle-crazed nostalgia child like I am, DEFINITELY give this a read! It’s a good time!

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I loved seeing where the original Raph meets Casey story came from. I constantly think about that adaptation in 2003 with Raph needing to be stopped before he hurt Mikey and how sorry he was. I really wasn’t expecting that in this art style. It’s a favorite moment of mine and I loved seeing its origins in this book!

Also Raph asking April for a beer is kinda hilarious lol
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic comics at their best
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2022
Tis series has stood the test of time. It's unique from the art and writing.Any comic fan would enjoy this.
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Patrick Payne
4.0 out of 5 stars Great except...
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2014
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Ah, this book takes me back to those long-gone middle-school days when I first had the full-color Mirage graphic novel reprints. This is where it all began (even though, in truth, I started as a li'l squirt in '87 with the Murakami-Wolf Saturday Cartoon series), and it really hasn't shown its age. The story is simple -- There are turtles. They are teenage. They are mutants. And, in a twist that should surprise nobody, they are ninja, taught by a mutated rat who was the former pet of a grandmaster ninja. They fight crime, including the villanous Shredder, who in this installment ended up having the same treatment meted out to him as The Joker in the first issue of Batman (in both, they were intended to be a one-shot to be killed at the end. But both became the iconic bad guys of their franchises, and so got miracle resurrections. Just how The Shredder survived being blown up by a Thermite bomb is beyond me but...)

The artwork is just as I remember it, that glorious, rough "indie-comix" style of '83, done as a homage/parody of Frank Miller's signature style. The writing still crackles, and the action is as dynamic as ever. With every page, the sweet smell of nostalgia washed over me. The black-and-white art translated well to the Kindle format (though that glorious first splash page had to be cut in two to accomodate the screen, but it's a small compromise and easily glossed over by all but the most rabid purists who probably moaned about the staple-holes that were there in the original issue), and are as atmospheric as on the printed page.

The one quibble is that while it's *theoretically* and *technically* compatible with the Kindle Paperwhite, in *practice* it falls prey to the same problems that most comic book reprints on my Kindle have shown -- for whatever reason (file size too big? color information somewhere that the processor is straining to read? artwork maxes out the device's memory?) the book crashes my Kindle after I read a few pages -- the device slows down dramatically and finally reboots. And so I had to finally return it for a refund. Sigh. And that's too bad, as this is one of those books I was chomping at the bit to have on the Kindle.
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MR B P VINCE
5.0 out of 5 stars loved it!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2022
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Classic 80s nostalgia!
Not a bad story either, really hope we get an omnibus soon, or compendium ! 8/10! Great
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S. Malzkorn
5.0 out of 5 stars Kurz und gut.
Reviewed in Germany on May 2, 2014
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Mir gefällt das Konzept der Story. Ein wunderbarer Comic, der sich um Rache dreht. Sehr schön: Die Protagonisten sind nicht unverletzbar und tragen in ihren Kämpfen Verletzungen davon.
Ich fand lediglich den Zeichenstil anstrengend. Das liegt aber eher an mir.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2014
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Well worth buying
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Joe B
3.0 out of 5 stars How it all began!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2014
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I enjoyed it, keeping in mind that it's the very first version of the TMNT story ever. The characters are barely there at all, and Eastman and Laird got a lot better at creating comics as they went along, but it's still worth reading for the sake of what it is - the start of a pop culture phenomenon.
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