Recognize the plant monster on this cover?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrible2z ... otostream/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Volume 5)
Yeah, it's that alien plant thing from "It Came From Beneath the Sewers"!
Luckily, the Flickr user who had this one in his collection also had some interior scans from that issue, and there's even a page with cute chibi April b&g! Sadly, there's only 1 panel of April in full treatment on that page, and it seems he skipped over scanning pages 82-83 and 86-89, and April appears to be free of her gag and bonds by page 90-91. So more panels of her b&g could be missing, but we'll probably have to find them elsewhere. But at least we know there's something in this and that's better than nothing! Here's the one page of interest for now though:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrible2z ... otostream/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (April chair-tied and gagged)
And here's a cover scan of the 1st volume of this manga:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22047800@N ... 377852732/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I would also really like to find this one because it adapts the "Turtle Tracks" episode along with "Enter the Shredder." We all know that April gets a DiD scene in that first story don't we?
Haven't seen any relevant interior scans of this one yet but they may be out there somewhere if we keep looking! There were supposedly 15 volumes of this original "Mutant Turtles" series of manga that adapted stories from the cartoon with 2 per book, for a total of 30 adpated episodes. I don't know what all the stories were that were adapted (crossing my fingers and praying that "Enter the Rat King" made it
) but I really hope the issues covering stories which we know have DiD in the cartoon can be found somewhere. I would love to see manga adaptations of all those April b&g scenes, wouldn't you? Now aside from that first "Mutant Turtles" series, there were also some completely original Turtles mangas made in Japan.
I happened across this site (http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2009/05/tmnt-manga.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) in researching the first series and guess what? They actually have links to download some of these! They have "Mutant Turtles Gaiden" and "Super Turtles."
I have no idea if either of these has any DiD stuff but it might be worth checking them out!
And on that same site I found this very informative article (http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2010/03/ ... japan.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) about the history of TMNT in Japan that you guys might want to read. I knew the Turtles had been popular over there but I never realized just quite how much. It sounds like they were every bit as huge there as anywhere else. There's some pretty funny facts in that article covering everything from the muddled airing situation and 3 different dubbings of the original cartoon to the mangas and movies and other Turtles merchandise that was released over there. 'Tis a fun read.
Who knows how many other April scenes might lurk out there in stuff that was exclusive to the Land of the Rising Sun?
There's got to be a few more panels besides just that one with 6 pages missing. But with enough diligence I think we can find it!
