Publication date: Fall, 1992
Story: Dean Clarrain (Steve Murphy)
Pencils: Jim Lawson
Inks: Dan Berger
Letters: Mary Kelleher
Colors: Steve Lavigne
Cover: Michael Dooney
“Trick or Treat”
Summary:
On Halloween the Turtles decide to investigate a weird
house they’ve been hearing about.
Evidently, monsters live there and have been stealing the candy from
trick-or-treaters all night.
The Turtles ring the doorbell and are roared at by Count
Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and the Frankenstein monster. The monsters steal their bags of candy and
slam the door, however, the Turtles recognize their voices.
They kick in the door and discover that the Wolf Man and
Frankenstein are none other than Bebop and Rocksteady, cleverly using the
disguises to purloin candy. The Turtles
attack, but the Mummy and Count Dracula are revealed to be Foot Soldiers.
While they’re busy dismantling the robots, Bebop and
Rocksteady beat a hasty retreat. They
don’t make it past the front yard before they’re halted by REAL monsters. The two mutants promptly faint and drop their
bags of stolen candy.
The Turtles catch up with them and wonder what could have
been scary enough to make the evil thugs pass out. Not far away, a gang of little kids in
monster costumes recover their stolen candy.
Turtle Tips:
*This story is continued from TMNT Magazine (Welsh) #9. The story continues in TMNT Magazine (Welsh) #11.
Review:
You know, if I was actually any good at paying attention
to the calendar and reviewing seasonal stories on time, I might have done this
comic on Halloween instead of Christmas.
Ah well.
Anyhow, here’s another of the “Bebop and Rocksteady are
inconveniencing everybody” comic strips that dot the back end of Welsh’s TMNT
Magazine. I love how utterly smalltime
this story is; I genuinely believe that stealing candy from children is
something Bebop and Rocksteady would stoop low enough to. Yeah, the ending is dumb but so are all these
comics; it’s the situation that’s really amusing. Not just that, but the fact that they
apparently appropriated two Foot Soldiers from the Shredder to aid them in their
rascally scheme.
There’s also the matter of Bebop and Rocksteady having to
wear rubber disguises to scare people; like their mutant faces wouldn’t be
frightening to little children. But then,
if any of the people in this TMNT universe watch April O’Neil’s nightly news
reports, and witness the near daily defeats of Bebop and Rocksteady, I can
understand why no one would find those two the least bit frightening.
Alright, now let’s see if I can’t get the Christmas issue
done today instead of, like, on Valentine’s Day or something…
