Sachs called the high concept pitch "Green Against Brick". Schulte and worked out the simple backstory that would live on toy packaging for the entire run of the product and show. Wolf and his team combined concepts and ideas with the Playmates marketing crew, headed by Karl Aaronian, VP of sales Richard Sallis and VP of Playmates Bill Carlson.Īaronian brought on several designers, and concepteur and writer John C. Development was undertaken by a creative team of companies and individuals: Jerry Sachs, ad man of Sachs-Finley Agency, brought together the animators at Murakami-Wolf-Swenson headed by Fred Wolf. In January 1987, Eastman and Laird visited the offices of Playmates Toys Inc, a small California toy company that wanted to expand into the action figure market. In 1986, Dark Horse Miniatures produced a set of 15 mm lead figurines.
The Turtles started their rise to mainstream success when a licensing agent, Mark Freedman, sought out Eastman and Laird to propose wider merchandising opportunities for the franchise.
The TMNTcomic series has been published in various incarnations by various comic book companies since 1984. Using money from a tax refund, together with a loan from Eastman’s uncle, the young artists self-published a single-issue comic intended to parody four of the most popular comics of the early 1980s: Marvel Comics’ Daredevil and New Mutants, Dave Sim’s Cerebus, and Frank Miller’s Ronin. The concept arose from a humorous drawing sketched out by Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming and bad television with Laird. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first appeared in an American comic book published by Mirage Studios in 1984 in Dover, New Hampshire. During the peak of the franchise's popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it gained considerable worldwide success and fame. The characters originated in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book before their expansion into a cartoon series, films, video games, toys, and other general merchandise. They were created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. From their home in the storm sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated animals, and alien invaders while attempting to remain hidden from society. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, named after four Renaissance artists, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu. PRODUCTORA: Murakami Wolf Swenson / Fred Wolf Films / Mirage Studios / Surge Licensing / Playmates Toys / I.D.D.Publication information Publisher Mirage Studios įirst appearance Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#1 (May 1984) Howell IV, Matthew Malach, Antonio Ortiz, Carmela Ortiz, Sean Roche, Lee Schneider, George Shea, Gary Greenfield, Cydne Clark, Steve Granat, Marc Handler, Matt Uitz, Jim Lawson, Ryan Brown (Cómic: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird) Larry Carroll, Michael Maurer, Brynne Stephens, Carole Bruce Mendelsohn, Dennis Marks, Martin Pasko, Richard Merwin, Larry Parr, Gordon Bressack, Rowby Goren, Stan Sakai, Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly, Bill Wolf, Doug Booth, Christy Marx, Duane Capizzi, Eliot Daro, Buzz Dixon, Mark McCorkle, Steve Roberts, Robert Schooley, Dan DiStefano, John Fox, Charles M.
GUION: David Wise, Fred Wolf, Michael Reaves, Francis Moss, Bruno-René Huchez, Misty Stewart-Taggart, Ted Pedersen, Jack Mendelsohn, Michael Edens, Dennis O’Flaherty, Jeffrey Scott, Patti Howeth, Mark Edward Edens, Doug Molitor, David Carren, J. DIRECCIÓN: Bill Wolf, Tony Love, Mike Stuart, Bruno-René Huchez, Reg Lodge, Vincent Davis