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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published February 1989
Cover Price 1.50 USD; 2.25 CAD
Pages 52
Editing Kevin Eastman

Cover Details - "Wraparound Cover"

Characters Leonardo; Donatello; Michelangelo; Raphael; Chang Lee
Genre Superhero; Funny Animal
Pencils Mark Bodé (signed)
Inks Kevin Eastman (signed)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Greetings!"

Script Kevin Eastman
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia information.

1 page filler "Title page"

Notes Entire page features the Ninja Turtle logo.

1 page credits "Frontispiece"

Letters typeset
Notes Creator credits.

40 page Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story "The Shell of the Dragon"

Characters Leonardo; Donatello; Michelangelo; Raphael; Chang Lee; Bugsy the Butcher (first appearance); Pretty Boy Crush (first appearance); Ching Lo Lepty (first appearance); Buff (first appearance); Gorko (first appearance)
Genre Superhero
Script Mark Bodé; Kevin Eastman
Pencils Mark Bodé
Inks Kevin Eastman; Eric Talbot
Letters Lavigne

5 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Promotional Advertisements"

Notes MELTING POT; DEN #6; TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #19; GIZMO AND THE FUGITOID; COMMANDOSAURS

1 page filler "Endpage"

Notes Large Ninja Turtle logo.

1 page illustration "Interior Back Cover"

Letters typeset
Notes Pinup of an unidentified martial artist with the inscription: Dedicated to Bruce Lee.

1 page Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Genre Superhero; Funny Animals
Pencils Mark Bodé
Inks Kevin Eastman
Notes Left portion of wraparound cover.