IDW Announces Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artisan Edition

If you were to purchase one of the few copies of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, it would probably cost you at least a few hundred dollars – if not more. Thankfully, this comic book has been reproduced several different times, so it’s not impossible to get your hands on TMNT history if you’re looking for a copy to read. That being said, few of the reproductions have been completely accurate recreations of the original comic.
What is the Artisan Edition? We’ll let them explain it for us:
“This book reproduces all the original art to the first issue of one of the most important comic book phenomenons of the last 35 years — The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Scanned directly from the original art, mimicking the experience of the original hand drawn page, and also collecting all the layouts (also hand drawn) by the creators of what has been called this generation’s Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.”
In addition to fully recreating the original comic book in style, they’ll also provide a lot of extra material related to the creation of the franchise. At a price tag of around $50, this isn’t going to be cheap, but it will be more affordable than obtaining one of the few remaining copies of the real thing. Considering that the Artisan Edition will be filled with tons of additional content, that’s actually a pretty good deal. Currently, it’s available for pre-order on Amazon with a planned release date of May 30th, 2017.