COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 7 Signature
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1024865002
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Owner:
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Turtle
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
First Printing: May, 1986
NUMBER OF STORY PAGES: 41
COVER:.........Kevin Eastman
STORY:..........Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
PENCILS:.....Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
INKING:.........Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
TONING: ......Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
LETTERS:.....Steve Lavigne
NOTES:
This story is continued from TMNT #6
This issue contains a bonus 4 page story by Kevin Eastman and Richard Corben entitled "You Had to be There." It was the first ever full color TMNT comic.
SOURCE:
This was part of a large submission I sent with a friend to be signed by Eastman in late 2011. Thanks, Joel!
SYNOPSIS:
This issue opens with the news reporter, Jim McNaughton, explaining the strange situation going on at the T.C.R.I. building. 3 days earlier a mysterious beam of light had erupted from the roof of the structure and when police came to investigate they were promptly shut out by heavy steel plates that sealed all doors and windows. The local police and National Guard are plotting their next step when another incredible beam of energy strikes the rooftop, lighting the City for several blocks. On the crowded streets below, chaos erupts and the National Guard tell McNaughton that they've been ordered to "blast their way in."
Inside the building, the TMNT, Fugitoid and 3 Triceraton warriors are recovering from being teleported by the Utroms' Transmat device. As soon as the Triceratons recover, they attack in effort to seize the Transmat. A huge brawl breaks out and several Utroms are hurt in the fight. Finally, all 3 Triceratons are taken out and the TMNT are reunited with Splinter.
April is outside and finds out what is going on. Knowing that she can be of no assistance, she heads for home, hoping that the Turtles will be there when she gets back.
Master Splinter explains to the Turtles how he had battled the Mousers until he fell unconscious and was found by the Utroms, who brought him to their building to heal. Unfortunately the Turtles had thought the worst when they saw their Sensei in the stasis tube (TMNT #4), and their outburst damaged the Transmat device (and sent them to Fugitoid's world). Splinter explains that the unhappy Utroms had no intention of rescuing them due to their behavior, but he managed to convince them to bring the TMNT back via the Transmat. The Triceratons were brought along by accident.
As Leo questions the aliens' motives, a lone Utrom walks in and explains how they came to Earth. 20 years ago their ship had crash landed and killed one third of their crew. The survivors managed to integrate themselves into American society thanks to their high tech android disguises. The crew took jobs and quickly amassed enough wealth to buy the building that would become their headquarters. The Utroms salvaged what material they could in effort to build their Translocation Device - the Transmat. Unfortunately while working on their machine, the visitors had an accident 15 1/2 years earlier. The Utroms were bringing the last load of supplies from their crashed ship to their abode when a blind man walked in front of their truck, causing them to swerve out of the way. This violent action dislodged a canister filled with alien ooze and it flew into the street, striking a young man in the head. The can continued to bounce down the street until it hit an aquarium full of turtles that a boy was holding, shattering it. The turtles and the canister fell into the sewers, where the reptiles were bathed in the strange glowing ooze. It was then that Splinter found them... and the rest is history. The Utroms finally managed to contact their homeworld and were asked to remain in New York to continue observation of the planet.
Tragically, the Turtles accidental use of the Transmat had caused the beams of light that have alerted the local police and National Guard, so the Utroms are in a serious bind. They offer to teleport the Turtles home, but it's at that moment that the National Guard attack the T.C.R.I. building. As Honeycutt works with the Utroms to program the Transmat to get everyone to safety, the soldiers battle the aliens' various robotic guards (who are firing stun weapons, so no men are killed in the battle). Just as the Guardsman are about to enter the Transmat chamber, all of the Utroms are teleported to safety. The TMNT are angry that they weren't being sent home, but decide that they must follow the Utroms or be captured by the National Guard. The Turtles and Master Splinter enter the Transmat and disappear.
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