Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
At the spring of 1984, a bizarre new comic book sat beside pay registers in select stores, too large to fit on racks and too strange to ignore. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Eastman and Laird introduced an entirely new type of super hero. It was far too odd, far too insane. It violated every rule and should have never worked. Until the stock was depleted. Again and again. For thirty years. Now, peer under the surface and see how this ostensibly "happy accident" defied all odds to become one of the world's most popular and adored franchises.
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At the spring of 1984, a bizarre new comic book sat beside pay registers in select stores, too large to fit on racks and too strange to ignore. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Eastman and Laird introduced an entirely new type of super hero. It was far too odd, far too insane. It violated every rule and should have never worked. Until the stock was depleted. Again and again. For thirty years. Now, peer under the surface and see how this ostensibly "happy accident" defied all odds to become one of the world's most popular and adored franchises.
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