COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 23 Modern
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0167738003
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Owner:
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Turtle
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
First Printing: June, 1989
NUMBER OF STORY PAGES: 36
COVER:.........Mark Martin
STORY:..........Mark Martin
PENCILS:.....Mark Martin
INKING:.........Mark Martin
TONING: ......Mark Martin
LETTERS:.....Mark Martin
NOTES:
Continued from TMNT #22
Someone once wrote the following about Mark Martin’s work, which is much more eloquent than anything I could ever say about it:
“Trying to write a synopsis of Mark Martin's work is like trying to describe the flavor of a color. In other words, this summation of Mark's comic falls woefully short of being an accurate representation of his crazed, artistic genius. Rest assured that you cannot fathom the complete tomfoolery of his stories without reading the actual comics.”
SOURCE:
This was a raw ebay purchase that I submitted for grading myself.
SYNOPSIS:
As this issue opens, we find a disgruntled Dale sulking on a utopian Earth.
"How many stupid times to-stupid-day do I have to save the stupid planet?" she growls as she kicks a mushroom.
As the girl heads into The Forest (marked with a sign labeled, "Abandon Continuity All Who Enter Here"), she's confronted by an angry, costumed rat calling himself The Fannywhacker. The rat demands to know why Dale isn't in school and she points out that it's Sunday, whereby the rat demands to know why she isn't in Sunday School. The girl explains that it's almost dark and Sunday School let out hours ago. An enraged Fannywhacker scribbles demerits on his clipboard before admitting that he's not very good at his job... or anything else. The rat laments that all he wants to do is squash punks and read comic books, but the world is so perfect that there's no crime to punish. As Fannywhacker exclaims that some grave cosmic error must have taken place, Dale decides that he's the one person on Earth desperate (and crazy) enough to get into the quickly deteriorating time machine and try to undo what she had done in the previous issue. Armed with confidence in her companion's instability, the girl hatches a plan...
Meanwhile, back at April's apartment, the Turtles (still in their normal, pet shop turtle form) are stuck in an aquarium and are going stir crazy. The guys try to escape, but their efforts are futile.
Two million years in the past, the apeman is busy in his garden when the dilapidated time machine appears. The happy apeman is overjoyed, thinking that Dale has come back to visit him... but he's rudely alerted to the arrival of The Fannywhacker when the rat greets him with a punch in the jaw. The costumed rodent then destroys the garden and the comfy recliner before launching the puppy into the air with a mighty toss. "Now that oughta incite the little goon!"
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