Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
Publication information
Publisher	Mirage Studios[1]
First appearance	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (May 1984)
Created by	Kevin Eastman Peter Laird
In-story information
Base(s)	Manhattan
Member(s)	Leonardo Raphael Donatello Michelangelo

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, named after four Renaissance artists, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu. From their home in the storm sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated animals, and alien invaders while attempting to remain isolated from society.
The characters originated in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book before their expansion into a cartoon series, films, video games, toys, and other general merchandise.^[2] During the peak of franchise’s popularity in the late 1980s through the early 1990s, the franchise gained considerable worldwide success and fame.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Main characters
• 3 Comics
  • 3.1 Mirage
  • 3.2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
  • 3.3 Dreamwave
  • 3.4 IDW
  • 3.5 Manga
  • 3.6 Comic strip
• 4 Television series
  • 4.1 First animated series (1987–1996)
  • 4.2 Anime series
  • 4.3 Live-action series (1997–1998)
  • 4.4 Second animated series (2003–2009)
  • 4.5 Third animated series (2012–present)
• 5 Feature films
• 6 Merchandise
  • 6.1 Toys
• 7 Video games
• 8 In other media
  • 8.1 Food tie-ins
  • 8.2 Concert tour
  • 8.3 At the Disney-MGM Studios theme park
• 9 Parodies
• 10 Controversies
  • 10.1 Departure from origins
  • 10.2 Teenage Mutant "Hero" Turtles
• 11 Ownership rights
  • 11.1 TV series
  • 11.2 Movies
  • 11.3 Comic books
• 12 See also
• 13 References
• 14 Bibliography
• 15 External links