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“The overwhelming majority of the unsold copies of Mirage Studios’ ‘Hallowieners’ one-shot were destroyed when the company’s comic book backstock storage basement flooded at some point in the late 1990s.”
– Stephen Murphy
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–>> As long as Steve Lavigne ( right shoulder pictured ) brought the NinjaTurtle Comics to a signing,Ryan Brown brought the ‘One-Man Hair Band’.
~ t
![MIRAGE STUDIOS PRESENTS "Gobbledygook" #1 // Cover art - ink on vellum (( 1984 )) [[ Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries ]]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5244/5279668221_d944c1d915.jpg)
** Auction for this item on HA is here.
–>> Yeh, you might wana cut back on the pizza & start stavin’ that savings n’ starve for this beauty !! $_$ **
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Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird Gobbledygook #1 Cover Original Art (Mirage Studios, 1984). Gobbledygook is famous for its scarcity, and significant for heralding the arrival of the most successful independent comics creators and characters of the 1980s. The issue was the first publication of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s Mirage Studios (see a copy of the rare comic as well as issue #2 offered elsewhere in this catalog).
As the accompanying letter documents, the art was purchased from the creators by our consignor Paul Wagner in 1985, to be used in a fanzine that alas never saw print.
The character shown here is Fugitoid, making his first appearance. The man trapped in a robot’s body starred in this issue and became a supporting character in the “Turtles” universe. He has even enjoyed merchandising success of his own, having been made into an action figure.
The 2007 sale of the complete original art from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 for a reported $250,000 underscores the tremendous interest in Eastman and Laird’s earliest work.
The art is rendered in marker on vellum and mounted to heavy illustration board, with an image area of 7.75″ x 8″. The lot also includes a red marker on vellum overlay by the artists (done for the planned fanzine publication), used to indicate tone for the printer. Also included with this lot is Kevin Eastman’s cover letter to Paul Wagner. The overlay image has been merged with the marker art to show how Eastman and Laird intended this to look. It’s being published here online for the first time.
![MIRAGE STUDIOS PRESENTS "Gobbledygook" #1 // Cover art - red marker on vellum (( 1984 )) [[ Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries ]]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5041/5279668229_5aa9694d16.jpg)
![MIRAGE STUDIOS PRESENTS "Gobbledygook" #1 // Cover art - overlay merged (( 1984 )) [[ Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries ]]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5279668243_17357c22f5.jpg)
![MIRAGE STUDIOS PRESENTS "Gobbledygook" #1 // Eastman's accompanying cover letter to Paul (( 1984 )) [[ Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries ]]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5279668231_1f5afd69d7.jpg)
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![MIRAGE STUDIOS PRESENTS "Gobbledygook" #1 (( 1984 )) [[ Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries ]]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5285/5282496494_e27c65f331.jpg)
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** Auction for this item on HA is here.
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![MIRAGE STUDIOS PRESENTS "Gobbledygook" #2 (( 1984 )) [[ Courtesy of Heritage Auction Galleries ]]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5207/5279668215_3c3ca6e3e5.jpg)
Hey Everyone!
Well we are back from NYCC safe and sound! So now is the time to start sharing stories about or trip. As NYCC wasn’t very turtle heavy, I decided to just make a short series of special posts about the coolest of the trip (rather than one giant NYCC post). This is the first of said posts. Hope you enjoy!
Above is the house in Dover, NH that Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and his wife lived at the time that the Ninja Turtles were created. This house is quite litterally the birth place of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This photo was taken circa 1984.
On Sunday, the last day of the convention; Heather, her sister Rae, and myself decided to skip the convention to take a 300 mile car trip in our rental Dodge Nitro, to visit this slice of Mirage history.
5 hours and some beautiful country later, we arrive at our destination (at roughly 7:30pm, sorry for the low light pictures). Thi is the Dover house as it stands today.
There is quite a bit of construction around the property at the moment. Actually, an earthmover was parked in front of the next house over. The street is kind of a mess.
Yes, that is a for sale sign you see in the front. However; we contacted the reality representative for the house and discovered the there is already a deal closing on the house.
Rear of the house.
Seeing it in person made it clear that it hadn’t been lived in in a very very long time.
Sadly, because of the pending sale, the property was locked by the bank, and the representative was unable to open the property for us to look inside.
We were there for about a half and hour, soaking up the history as it were, before driving back to NYC. 12 hours and 600 miles round trip, but totally worth it.
A Huge huge thank you to my loving wife to be, and her awesome sister Rae, for taking this walk through turtles history with me.
