Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #45 - First Appearance of Leatherhead, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage, 1984 series)
Issue: #45
Publication date: March 1992
Key date: March 1992
Indicia publisher: Mirage Publishing Inc.
Price: $2.00; 2.75 CAD
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Leatherhead - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	2	pencils: Dan Berger; inks: Dan Berger	Donatello, Leatherhead, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
1	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman
2	Leatherhead Too	comic story	32	script: Dan Berger; pencils: Dan Berger; inks: Dan Berger; letters: Rob Caswell	Donatello, Leatherhead First, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Classics #7 ISBN 978-1-61377-798-5	2013	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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