Perhaps no other comic book from the past 40 years has had a greater overall impact on the hobby and on popular entertainment than the first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 1984. This premiere issue spawned an entertainment and marketing machine that continues to this very day to churn out everything from blockbuster movies to breakfast cereal and action figures. This quirky self-published series also changed the way that collectors and investors thought about the hobby of comic book collecting, spawning a boom both in the publishing of and speculation on small-print run independents.

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