Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

What started as a simple gag comic ended up becoming the best-selling independent comic book of all time. It went on to spawn several movies, multiple animated TV series, and numerous video games. If you were a kid during the late 1980s and early 1990s, there’s a good chance you were obsessed with the Turtles at some point. But there’s also a good chance you didn’t really know everything about them....

Thanks to the inexplicably popular cartoon and its extremely catchy theme songs—one of the catchiest of all time—the Turtles were already household names by their live-action movie’s debut in 1990. Even though the franchise was already one of the biggest names in children’s entertainment, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was seen as a significant risk for movie studios… …so much so that the movie failed to secure a distribution company until it was well into the production process....