Updated review: The Journal Times took an already poor app and made it worse! It’s incredibly clunky. The negatives are available to view on Horn’s website.It’s free: UPDATE-It’s literally the worst “I want to take care of them, and I want people to see them. “It feels natural they’ve fallen into my hands,” said Horn. Horn is said to be known as the historian for TMNT comics by those who collect them. Given the age of the negatives and changes in the printing process since 1984, the task could be a bit daunting, he noted. Horn said the only way to get a true reprinting of the first edition is with the negatives he has, and he would like to explore that avenue, perhaps with a documentary crew. “We weren’t sure there would be a second issue,” he said. He tours, attends comic conventions - where he met Horn - and meets a lot of young people looking to become involved in the industry, he said.Įastman remembers the first comic book convention he and Laird attended, held at a hotel at the Portsmouth traffic circle back in May 1984. “It was a childhood dream come true,” said Eastman of the success of TMNT. He said many people wonder where the names of the turtles originated - Eastman explained he was an art history fan and did a mural of Leonardo da Vinci for the school. “I think my exact words were ‘this isn’t going anywhere no one’s going to buy this’ - boy, we were wrong.” “We were like ‘what is this?'” said Worthing when the negatives for the TMNT comic landed in the plate room. He recalled looking at press proofs to make sure the pages were in order and there were no blemishes or other issues.ĭoug Worthing, now head of graphic design at Mainely Media LLC, which produces the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Kennebunk Post, South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Sentry, and Scarborough Leader, was working in the plate room of the Journal Tribune at the time, where images from the negatives were imprinted on plates used in the printing process. “The film was created from the drawings, and they laid it out, marked it up to size it for the presses,” said Eastman. Then it was off to the JT, to begin the printing process. The two artists put together a business proposal, obtained printing costs, and laid out how they proposed to repay his uncle. “He was very in tune with what Peter and I were doing,” Eastman said. He recalled that he and Laird had approached Eastman’s uncle Quentin, who owned an art studio in Manchester, for a loan to print the comic. “It was very exciting” to hear the negatives of that first TMNT comic existed, said Eastman. The title was later acquired by Viacom, who sold the licensing to a corporation called IDW, who hired Eastman to consult and work with them. Eastman, who owned Mirage Studios with Laird for years, explained he sold his ownership of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles about 15 years ago. There was a second printing of 6,000 copies, he recalled. “To our surprise, it sold out quickly,” said Eastman of that first printing, by phone from his home in San Diego, California, where he continues to draw Ninja Turtles. He debuted his negative collection at a comic convention in Manchester, New Hampshire in September. The newspaper is no longer printed, but Horn decided to look at the former location. Rich Horn, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collector, recent acquired the negatives of the first issue of the comic, which was printed at the Journal Tribune in 1984.
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