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Publishers / Mirage / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984) / #5

5November 1985
$1.50; 2.25 CAD

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5

Mirage · November 1985 · on sale 1985

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Identification plate

Series: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage, 1984 series)
Issue: #5
Publication date: November 1985
Key date: November 1985
On-sale date: 1985
Indicia publisher: Mirage Studios
Price: $1.50; 2.25 CAD
Pages: 52

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	2	pencils: Peter Laird; inks: Peter Laird; colors: Kevin Eastman
1	Turtle Tracks	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Peter Laird
2	-	comic story	37	script: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird; pencils: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird; inks: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird; letters: Kevin Eastman	Donatello, Fugitoid, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Professor Honeycutt, Raphael
3	-	illustration	1	pencils: Michael Dooney; inks: Michael Dooney	Donatello, Fugitoid, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Professor Honeycutt, Raphael

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Collected Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1	1990	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2 ISBN 0-915419-22-X	1987	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1	1988	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collected Book #1	2009	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics #5	2012	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection #1 ISBN 978-1-61377-007-8	2011	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection #1 ISBN 9781631409905	2017	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Compendium #1 ISBN 978-1-68405-931-7	2022	On eBay ›
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5 [Second Printing]	1987	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #4 [Second Printing]10 of 72#5 [Second Printing] ›

Sources

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

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