Stephen Murphy

‘Paradox of Chudnovsky’ (2025) takes its time reaching ‘TMNT’ fans

Toward the end of its holding of the “Star Wars” license, Dark Horse Comics released a good chunk of the under-printed stories in a couple

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No Shredder, no problem: ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (2005-06) is a scary smorgasbord

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 4 (2005-06, Fox) continues its style of adapting the Mirage comics but tightening the narrative links between street-level villains, outer

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‘TMNT Adventures’ Issues 23-31 (1991-92) explore Turtles’ Japanese roots

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” Issues 23-31 (1991-92) include more fast-and-furious action-figure creation from writer Dean Clarrain, and his usual heavy dose of environmentalism, but

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‘TMNT Adventures’ spins off into ‘Mighty Mutanimals’ (1991)

In the Maligna Saga – comprising the “Mighty Mutanimals” three-issue miniseries and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” 21 and 22 (May-July 1991) – we continue

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‘TMNT Adventures’ gets worldly in Issues 12-20 (1990-91)

In “TMNT Adventures” Issues 12-20 (1990-91), writer Dean Clarrain (real name Stephen Murphy) goes full bore into both environmental themes and world-building that’s totally distinct

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‘TMNT Adventures’ branches off from the cartoon in Issues 5-11 (1989-90)

The early issues of Archie Comics’ “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” (which would eventually run from 1988-96, paralleling the cartoon’s run) adapt the first seven

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Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello get ‘TMNT’ miniseries (2007-09)

Springing from “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 came four four-issue miniseries, one featuring each Turtle. “Leonardo: Blind Sight” (2006) launches from Issue 5, where Leo gets

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‘Tales of the TMNT’ comes to bittersweet end in Issues 54-70 (2009-10)

“TMNT” long ago taught us that, in the end, life is at best bittersweet, and that’s how I’d describe the last year-and-a-half of “Tales of the

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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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