Author: Hero_777

UK-Based, longterm TMNT enthusiast, proud parent and professional Santa Claus.

Heritage Auction Results!

Well, the long awaited Heritage auction has finally arrived. And with it, there have been some staggering results. So without further ado, here’s what happened:

First up, we have the heavy hitter. Easily the most important TMNT artwork ever created. And at auction, it lived up to the billing. It raked in the most money ever for TMNT artwork outside of Kevin’s $250,000 ebay auction where he sold the entirety of TMNT issue #1 (covers, interiors, etc.). And like that auction, this piece likely has ended up with someone who is not necessarily a TMNT fan, but simply a fan of comics history. What a fantastic piece…

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $ 71,700

Next up, we had an interesting piece of TMNT lore: the fabled check that helped jumpstart the careers of two fledgling comic artists. Without this check, the turtles would likely not be here…and the world would be a much sadder place because of it. Also in the auction is a copy of that first image, plus a copy of issue #1 (printing edition unknown)

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $2,390

Here’s a true rarity: the only printer proof for TMNT #1! Again, another tremendous piece of TMNT history. Coupled with another copy of TMNT #1 first printing, this was a heck of a combo!

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $3,883.75

This lot had a number of very interesting pieces in it. A first printing of the First’s graphic novel is no easy book to come by. Additionally, you get some neat newspaper clippings of which none are lilely still around. The office trademark for the TMNT is also included, along with a recreation Kevin did of the first turtle back in 2011.

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $597.50

Now, I have to admit this price came as a COMPLETE shocker to me. Sure this auction included the very first edition (1/1000) of a rather rare hardcover. But what makes this book is the fantastic Laird art drawn on the inside. Unlike Eastman, Laird art is pretty tough to come by…but tough enough to justify this price? This book reached a price that was strictly reserve for the rarest of TMNT collectible books: TMNT #1 first print, Gobbledygooks, Turtlemania Gold. Welcome to the four figure club!

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $3,883.75

For you toy fanatics out there, here is an awesome piece. One of the original prototype resin casts that were given to Kevin & Pete back in 1987. This lot also included some catalogs as well.

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $2,151.00

Another awesome lot, this one is for all you movie fans out there. The highlight of this lot  included scripts from the unproduced fourth live action movie.

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $1,912.00

Going along with the movie lot, here are 25 pages of art that were drawn to supplement that fourth movie. Some of which has been seen in Kev’s “Artobiography”

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $1,075.50

Kevin pulled out a couple of favorites to sell separately, and here is one of Kirby.

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $448.13

And the final piece, another great image of Kirby.

FINAL PRICE PAID (including buyer’s premium): $567.63

Well folks that concludes the auction. For those keeping count, that’s nearly $90,000 in Turtles dollars total for this auction. Whew! Seems like the Turtles collectible market is as strong as ever with some awesome pieces fetching some stratospheric prices. So did anybody win? Any thoughts? Comments?

Man, that was fun!

-Terminator

Well, if the Turtles have a new alien origin in the next movie…

Then good old Steve Murphy must be trying cash in!

This explains it all people!! Either way an awesome cover, and not the type of piece you see everyday. Click the link to bid…though I hope you have some serious cash on hand at the low, low price of $2,999 BIN.

– Terminator

Finally! Turtle Soup #2!

In 2009 (Jul 7, 2009 to be precise) I posted a review of Turtle Soup #1. It is now mid March 3 years later, and we are finally gonna look at issue 2. By this rate we will reach issue #4 by August of 2018.

Our first story is another spin-off of Mark Martin’s Green-Grey Sponge-Suit Sushi Turtles, this time starring Velveeduh (bringing new irony to “Shells and Cheese”) and his ninja Master Match-Stik. Velveeduh is fishing in polluted lake, and hooks a large mutant fish, that promptly swallows him whole. Meanwhile Splinter…er…Match-Stik… is chasing a shrimp to study but after losing him spys Velveeduh’s mutant fish. Wishing to study this new mutation, Mickey…er…Match-Stick… comes to find out Velveeduh has been ingested by the fish wanting to get out. Match-Stik on the other hand thinks removing Velveeduh will harm the specimen and begins spewing several analogies that nauseate the fish causing him to vomit up Velveeduh. The End. Not impressed.

Our next story in our anthology is a horror parody, Mid-Afternoon of the Living Dead by Dave Garcia and Justin Hampton. A mysterious meteor crashes to earth containing dozens of worms. Soon after a very familiar pair comes looking for the for the meteor, only to be attacked by zombies. Still later, our heroes are visiting the area looking for some fishing. (Really, 2 in a row?) They are also attacked by the corpses that are resurrected by the space worms. (One wonders if these are the worms used to resurrect Oroku Saki, but then again our heroes are in their Fred Wolf style garb, so the point is moot.) They fight off the zombies and use the worms as bait for their fishing trip, since they forgot bait earlier… or Mikey used it as a pizza toppings. I really rather enjoyed this short tale.

And on to the Dooney piece. (YEA!!!) In the 2nd part of this 4 part saga the Turtles are defending their friends (and themselves) from the dinosaurs accidentally transported to this time by Henry’s wrist gauntlet. As the Turtles tangle with the Triassic terrors (hooray for alliteration!) Henry attempts to send the dinos back the the stone age. He succeeds, but before anyone can catch their breath, a giant robot from the future is transported into the empty streets! TO BE CONTINUED!

The next 2 segments are by Don Simpson (with the help of Steve Lavigne on colors.) called Tales of Alternate Turtles on the Moon. The story opens with 4 alternate Turtles (guys who don’t get nearly enough gigs as stand-ins for turtles of the Teenage Mutant Ninja variety.) having a pint when they are approached by Captain Scaley Beard who invites them aboard his ship the Jolly Deathtrap and his search for buried treasure. The Turtles decline and are promptly knocked out and brought aboard the alien’s ship. On the moon the Turtles and the aliens are attacked by other space pirates. Unarmed, the Turtles flee, only to stumble across the the buried treasure. Hoping the alien pirates have taken each other out, the Turtles hijack Scaley Beard’s ship. Scaley Beard sees them leaving in his vessel and shanghais the other pirate ship. On board the pirate ship, the Turtles open the chest to reveal not treasure but a chest full of ‘tater chips. To evade the pirates, one of the Turtles dumps the chips out a porthole clogging the enemy ship’s warp drive causing it to explode. The Turtles crash land their ship, and happily party with Scaley Beard’s crew full of babes (The Mutant Ninja Turtles may get the glory, but these Turtles get the girls.) Not the best story, and I’ve never been a fan of Simpson’s art, but I’ve read worse.

Lastly we have Snapper, a Raphael one shot. All alone in April’s apartment, Raph has gorged himself on six pizzas when he notices April’s pet snapper. Playing with the turtle in an attempt to alleviate his boredom, the little guy nips Raph’s finger and he passes out. When Raph comes too, April’s pet snapper is now a hulking mutant snapper, who knocks Raph around before telling him he is inferior as,”pizza is no substitute for blood.” (Is that another Fred Wolf jab?) April returns to find her apartment trashed, and Raphael on the floor with the baby snapper on his head. Raph tries to explain, but April tells him to retrieve a special ninja weapon from the Turtles’ lair, a broom. This is probably my 2nd favorite story, after the Dooney piece. I mean it has a mutant snapping turtle. Where else could you see that? Oh…wait…

So there it is, Turtle Soup #2. Not a bad little anthology. I wonder why they didn’t split up the Alternate Turtles tales, but what’s done is done.

See you in 3 years!

It’s Official: Jonathan Liebesman to Direct TMNT movie, set for release Christmas 2013

Straight from Paramount Pictures: The director that brought you big action films like Battle: Los Angeles and the upcoming film Wrath of the Titans will be directing our newest big screen treatment of TMNT. It’s going to be a live action reboot – as far as the turtles themselves, rampant online speculation is that it’s going to be motion-captured much like the monkeys in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Considering the advancement of technology over the past two decades, along with a script courtesy of the same minds that wrote Mission Impossible -Ghost Protocol, we could be in store for some of the best live action since the first movie. Now with a Script and a Director, we should hopefully get getting on the fast track to seeing some actual production.

More to Come as it develops!

…Now if we could just find out who’s going to work on the soundtrack.

~Machias

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TMNT The Next Mutation getting a US DVD release.


Shout! Factory has signed a multiyear deal with Saban Entertainment, it allows Shout! exclusive DVD release rights for Saban shows. It is mainly for all 700+ episodes of Power Rangers, but also includes TMNT the Next Mutation. As of right now this could be Shouts! first TMNT release. There is a possibility that Shout! could also release the 2K3 series down the road. No release date is known at this time for NM, but could be out some time this year.