Jim Lawson

Lawson joins team for ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 42-53 (2008)

The 2008 batch of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was defined in two major ways: One, editor Dan Berger began informing readers of where each tale

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‘Tales of the TMNT’ fills in gaps in Issues 31-41 (2007)

Part of the purpose of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was to go back and fill in all those little story gaps that cropped up in

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April shines in ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 19-30 (2006)

In 2006, Mirage Volume 4 stopped its bimonthly publishing schedule and went to a trickle-out approach, but that same year, “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 continued

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Mirage resurrects ‘Tales of the TMNT’ with Vol. 2 Issues 1-18 (2004-05)

For the editors at Mirage Comics, it was both a blessing and a curse that most of their readership got hooked on TMNT through the

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‘TMNT’ Vol. 4 Issues 14-19 (2004) explore each Turtle

Volume 2 starts with each of the Turtles finding his own place to live, but they soon come back together again and mostly work as

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‘TMNT’ deals with loss in Vol. 4 Issues 8-13 (2003)

Peter Laird’s decision to have “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Volume 4 unfold at a leisurely pace, reflecting real life rather than an action movie, frustrated a lot

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Laird returns to ‘TMNT’ for Vol. 4 Issues 1-7 (2001-02)

Around the turn of the century, Peter Laird bought out Kevin Eastman’s share of the “TMNT” empire and soon got his second wind of interest

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A rundown of ‘TMNT’s’ special issues and crossovers (1985-2007)

In previous “TMNT” flashback posts, I delved into the short stories, the one-issue micro series and the two Casey Jones series as sources for more

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Fan project wraps Image ‘TMNT’ in Issues 24-25 (2011-12)

The cops in the 1990 “TMNT” movie found their answers at the east warehouse over at Lairdman Island, and fans of the “TMNT” comics finally

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A rundown of uncollected ‘TMNT’ short stories (1986-2005)

If you’ve already read the shorts in “Shell Shock,” “Turtle Soup” and Michael Dooney’s “Challenges” but you’d also like to track down the uncollected or

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