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The co-creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles describe their equal 50/50 collaborative process on plotting, penciling, and inking, and recount how the book originated from a late-night sketch session while working on their unreleased Fugitoid story. They self-published the first print run of 3,000 copies using borrowed money and income-tax funds, sold out within a month, and grew to 50,000 copies by issue #3. They discuss how the book began as a parody of Frank Miller's Ronin and Daredevil but has evolved into a more straightforward adventure comic, and outline plans for a Fugitoid one-shot and Michaelangelo holiday micro-series.

Group interview conducted at Mirage Studios the week before the TMNT film opened nationally, focusing on the making of the movie and the comic adaptation. Laird discusses the film's development from a low-budget Hong Kong shoot to a Jim Henson Creature Shop production, the approval process over characters and screenplay, and the extraordinary animatronic Turtle suits. The group shares anecdotes from visiting the North Carolina set and debates whether the film's look has influenced how they draw the characters.

Reader mail including an extended rebuttal from a fan challenging John Byrne's claims of ownership over Doctor Doom (in response to the CI #25 Byrne interview), praise for the Kevin Eastman/Peter Laird interview in CI #27, and editorial notes from DAK explaining the bi-weekly publishing schedule experiment the previous summer.

Pratt and Pertierra explain CompuServe's Comics Forum: Pratt as sysop describes how the forum operates (message boards, data libraries, real-time conference rooms), its half-million subscribers, and the roster of comics professionals who participate, including Chris Claremont, Walt and Louise Simonson, Peter Laird, and Mark Evanier. Pertierra describes his own path back into comics fandom and how he became an assistant sysop, and both discuss the community atmosphere and topics — censorship, art quality, Japanese animation — that drive discussion.

Langen, who won the 1990 WGA Award and Humanitas Award for The Wonder Years, discusses writing the screenplay for TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze, detailing its collaborative development with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in Northampton. He covers the plot's focus on the ooze's origins, new characters Keno and Professor Jordan Perry, the physical limitations of the Turtle suits, and the challenges of on-set rewrites. Langen also reflects on leaving television to pursue a feature-film career.

Sidebar profiling figures such as Stan Lee, Peter Laird, and Moebius who were considered for the Power 100 but ultimately left off.