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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3 (1987) · The Collector

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First Comics
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1986)
#3

First Comics#3

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3

Publisher: First Comics
Cover date: December 1987
Cover price: $9.95
Pages: 132

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2 titled

1The Passing
249th Street Stompers

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Grand Comics Database issue 346826

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1st appearance of Lord Simultaneous
1st appearance of Renet
1st appearance of Savanti Romero

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The Ninja Turtles confront the Utroms and are reunited with Splinter. They learn the Utroms were the beings who created the ooze which transformed all of them. The Utroms and Fugitoid flee Earth but the turtles are sent back to April in New York.

Credits

Writers: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Dave Sim
Pencillers: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Dave Sim, Gerhard, Michael Dooney
Inkers: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Dave Sim, Gerhard, Michael Dooney, Jim Lawson, Ryan Brown
Colorist: Steve Lavigne
Letterers: Steve Lavigne, Dave Sim
Cover: Kevin Eastman
Cover colors: Kevin Eastman

Editorial and production

Editors: Steve Lavigne, Michael Dooney, Laurel Fitch
Editorial coordinator: Rick Markow
Managing editor: Larry Doyle

Characters

Lord Simultaneous· 1st appearance
Renet· 1st appearance
Savanti Romero· 1st appearance
April O'Neil
Cerebus
Donatello
Fugitoid
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Professor Honeycutt
Raphael
Splinter

Teams: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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