Do I have a 1st print or Reprint Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? 0

[TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6]

Hey CGC Comunnity so I recently found a Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles comic book but I'm unsure if it's a 1st print, or any other type of print. Can yall help a brotha out? Here are some pictures of the book

Edited January 4, 2021 by TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6

[SOTIcollector]

From what I can see, it appears to be one of three possible copies:

1) First print

2) Second print.

3) Counterfeit first print.

Check the inside back cover.  Is it an ad for "Gobbledygook"?  If so, then it's either a first print or a counterfeit. Is an ad for merchandise like t-shirts?  Then it's a second print.

Here are some details about how you can tell the difference.

https://tmntcomics.wordpress.com/category/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1-1984/

[TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6]

On 1/4/2021 at 1:03 PM, SOTIcollector said:

From what I can see, it appears to be one of three possible copies:

1) First print

2) Second print.

3) Counterfeit first print.

Check the inside back cover.  Is it an ad for "Gobbledygook"?  If so, then it's either a first print or a counterfeit. Is an ad for merchandise like t-shirts?  Then it's a second print.

Here are some details about how you can tell the difference.

https://tmntcomics.wordpress.com/category/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1-1984/

It looks like this in the inside front cover and in the back inside cover has the gobbledygook. Could this be a production because as you can see in the front cover picture it has light blue border lines around the inside cover and it says on the bottem 93% inside front cover and on the top right inside front cover it says C2 

Edited January 11, 2021 by TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6

[davidtere]

I'm no Turtle expert but doesn't it say Second Printing in the top left corner?

[silversurfer275]

40 minutes ago, TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6 said:

It looks like this in the inside front cover and in the back inside cover has the gobbledygook. Could this be a production because as you can see in the front cover picture it has light blue border lines around the inside cover and it says on the bottem 93% inside front cover and on the top right inside front cover it says C2 

that is strange it has the gobbledygook ad but it says 2nd print on the inside 

[silversurfer275]

5 minutes ago, davidtere said:

I'm no Turtle expert but doesn't it say Second Printing in the top left corner?

im not 100 percent sure but I dont think the 2nd print is supposed to have the gobblygook ad

[ExNihilo]

1 hour ago, davidtere said:

I'm no Turtle expert but doesn't it say Second Printing in the top left corner?

What are you, some kinda detective or somethin'?

  

[TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6]

2 hours ago, davidtere said:

I'm no Turtle expert but doesn't it say Second Printing in the top left corner?

Yeah your right

[TeenageMuntantNinjaTurtle6]

Something else it's not as big as the other teenage mutant ninja turtles books 

[Ryan.]

Is it the Insight Editions reprint? How big is it in relation to a standard comic? 

[spracknetch23]

Looks to me like it's the reprint edition which was released as an add-on to the "Ultimate Visual History" TMNT book about 5 years ago. That book has the second printing marking and I believe, the Gobbledygook ad. 

[Ryan.]

That's almost certainly what it is. That Ultimate Visual History book is awesome, incidentally. Many people took out the reprint included with the book and sold it as a standalone. 

[Turtle]

1 hour ago, Ryan. said:

That's almost certainly what it is. That Ultimate Visual History book is awesome, incidentally. Many people took out the reprint included with the book and sold it as a standalone. 

I'd agree with this.  The Ultimate Visual History came with a miniature copy of a 2nd print #1.  The UVH came out originally in 2014 and then another edition was rolled out in 2018.  The cover to the reprint insert differed between the two with one being pretty glossy and the other being more of a matte finish.  

The Eastman sig on the cover, unless he really made a big signature on a first print, is almost certainly on a miniature comic.  

[William-James88]

You have a reprint or a reprint.