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Podcast: The Comics Canon
Episode: Episode 194 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (With Matt Goldberg)
Description: Media critic Matt Goldberg returns as we temporarily pause our Spidey Super-Stories miniseries to discuss the unstoppable cultural phenomenon known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a look at the book that started it all—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (and also #2) by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird! Before the seven different movies (including the well-received new "Mutant Mayhem"), the animated series, the video games and the action figures, there was just a self-published black-and-white comic riffing on Frank Miller's Daredevil run with a brilliant title. How did this modest 40-page comic spawn a decades-spanning mu...