TMNT Adventures Special #5

Publication date: Summer, 1993
Cover: Rich Hedden and Tom McWeeney

Contents:

*"Yo-Ho-Ho! And a Bottle of Mutagen!"
*"The Darkest Hour"


Turtle Tips:

*Chronologically, I would place these stories between the prologue of TMNT Adventures #41 and TMNT Adventures #42.

*Why? Because of freakin' Man Ray, that's why. The narrative between his first appearance in TMNT Adventures #5 all the way through the Mighty Mutanimals ongoing series is too tight for "Yo-Ho-Ho" to take place anywhere in there. By TMNT Adventures #41, however, the serialized pace of the book had taken a break, the Mutanimals ongoing had finished, the Mutanimals were shown building vehicles in later stories (hence Man Ray's inexplicable new sub) AND the Mutanimals were shown with the free time to do their own thing, ala the Donatello and Leatherhead miniseries.

*Of course, there's the matter of Ninjara's absence but shut up, I'm doing my best, here.