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Kevin Eastman: The $1,200 Loan That Built an Empire

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The co-creator who inked the first Turtle. The 1983 sketch, the self-published #1, the black-and-white boom, the 1987 phenomenon, and The Last Ronin - with the auction records to match.

Kevin Eastman: The $1,200 Loan That Built an Empire

Part one of the ninjaturtles.tv Artist Series. The full feature - the Dover origin story, how a 3,275-copy zine became the defining late-eighties franchise, the essential books, and seven benchmark auction results topping out at $250,000 - lives at /artists/kevin-eastman/.

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