Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1

Cover date: May 1984

Print run records

C · Recalled ~3,000 copies Recalled estimate

First print of TMNT #1 had a print run of only 3,000 copies, plus roughly 200 more to cover spoilage. Sold out overnight at the Portsmouth, NH comic show.

Source: recalledcomics.com -- "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1 #1 First and Second Prints" (Other)

C · Recalled ~35,000 copies Recalled estimate 3 printing

Third printing of TMNT #1 had approximately 35,000 copies printed, later in 1984.

Source: recalledcomics.com -- "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1 #1 First and Second Prints" (Other)

Scarcity proxies (not print-run figures — adjacent data used to infer rarity)

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