Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles History: From a $1,300 Comic to a Billion-Dollar Empire
The real teenage mutant ninja turtles history doesn’t start with a Saturday morning cartoon or a toy aisle stuffed with plastic shells. It starts in a cold Massachusetts apartment in 1983, with two broke artists, a tax refund, and a joke that got wildly out of hand. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird had no publisher,…