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stretchdude (stretchdude) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-22 12:52:00

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char: april o'neil, char: shredder/oroku saki, group: teenage mutant ninja turtles, publisher: archie, title: mighty mutanimals, title: teenage mutant ninja turtles

The Origins of the Mighty Mutanimals!
Someone requested this after I posted the TMNT Adventures Hitler-punch scans. Over the course of the first 20 issues, the Turtles met a number of characters who eventually formed their own team (and short-lived spinoff book), the Mighty Mutanimals. As requested, here are their respective origin stories.

Man Ray: In TMNT Adventures #5, we meet marine biologist Jack Finney.

He spends most of the issue in the shadows, and thwarts Shredder's plot to destroy the Statue of Liberty (on the Fourth of July, no less!) before his big reveal:

Leatherhead: Everybody's favorite gator-man gets a vastly different origin this time around. TMNTA #6 introduces us to Jess Harley, a man from the bayou who steals a myserious crystal from swamp witch Mary Bones, then heads to New York to find a seller, only to drop the crystal down the sewer. He heads down to retrieve it...

Wingnut & Screwloose: In TMNTA #8, the Turtles return from competing in an intergalactic wrestling tournament to find a crazed bat-man and his mosquito sidekick smashing skylights across the city. They finally manage to capture them...

They're smashing skylights 'cause Wingnut thinks Krang's hiding under one of them, y'see.

Mondo Gecko: In TMNTA #18, the Turtles find a teenage metal band practicing in one of Shredder's old hideouts. Their playing causes a power surge that wakes up a bunch of souped-up Foot Soldiers, and the Turtles leap into the fray.

Jagwar & Dreadmon: These two are introduced in TMNTA #14 and #15, respectively, but they don't recount their origins until issue 2 of the "Mighty Mutanimals: Invasion From Space" miniseries:

And there you have it.

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tsuki_the_geek
2009-03-22 02:04 pm UTC (link)

WOAH... having some CRAZY 1990s flashbacks over here! I had action figures of, like, all these guys. I adored the Mondo Gecko and his plastic skateboard especially. (Actually, did Man Ray have an action-figure? I know I had a book and a comic he was in-- he was awesome). Thanks for posting these fantabulous scans. Except, wow, TMNT had stupid costumes in the Wingnut scans. Ugh.

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	stretchdude 2009-03-22 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Well, they ARE wrestling outfits. Three of the turtles ditched theirs at the end of issue 8, but Raph liked his all-black costume and kept it through issue 17. And yeah, Man Ray had an action figure under the name Ray Fillet. (They actually made a reference to that in his second appearance.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tsuki_the_geek
2009-03-22 02:21 pm UTC (link)

Ah, indeed, found a picture:

http://www.nabemahobbies.com/images/products/original/447.jpg

And apparently there was one Man Fillet that could change colors in water. Nifty! I was so obsessed with TMNT action figures back in the day-- before you could order rare toys on the "interweb" I searched for MONTHS at every Toys R Us and Kay-bee within driving distance for a "Mona Lisa" action figure. She was awesome! ...and then her tail and arm broke. *cries* I still have most of them, er, somewhere. I think.

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stretchdude
2009-03-22 02:27 pm UTC (link)

Ah, the action figures. I LOVED collecting action figure packaging when I was a kid, especially TMNT figures. The toys I played with, but I loved looking at all the little tidbits on the back of the box. I actually still have a whole box of 'em somewhere.

I didn't even know there WAS a Mona Lisa figure. I knew there was a toyline based specifically on the cartoon, though; I had April's boss and a couple of the Neutrinos.

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tsuki_the_geek
2009-03-22 03:05 pm UTC (link)

Yes, Mona Lisa was the pride and joy of my TMNT "collection"
http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/TMNT/MOC/MonaLisaMOSC1a.jpg

Ah, you were smarter/more patient than I was-- most toy boxes immediately got mangled and destroyed in my eagerness to get the toys out of them. Which is why 99.9% of my things are worth nothing now. ;P

Although there is some COOL package info out there-- Star Wars and Marvel Comics figures were always my favorite. When I was really young, I could buy any action figures I wanted but my parents were a little leery about me reading any 90s ultra-violent comic I wanted (yeah, probably rightly so) so I learned about canon storylines via the "stories" on the boxes. Sigh... good times.

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lbd_nytetrayn
2009-03-22 06:59 pm UTC (link)

Despised most of the figures, personally. Either stupid names or changing their looks, or both. The latter usually being guaranteed.

Right, like "Hothead" is better than "The Warrior Dragon."

Jagwar, Dreadmon, and Ninjara never got figures, sadly.

I think all versions of Man Ray could change color, but which was the hot and which was the cold was switched partway, I believe.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

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