Story added by jakubduda on January 6, 2022
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' origin story paid homage to the first issue of Daredevil from 1963, in which young Matt Murdock is blinded by a radioactive isotope while pushing an old blind man from the path of an oncoming truck. Eastman and Laird extrapolated that after the canister containing that isotope struck Murdock, it collided with a bystander who was carrying a fishbowl containing his pets — four baby turtles. The turtles and the canister, which bore the initials T.C.R.I., fell down a grate into the sewer below, where they were discovered by an inquisitive rat, Splinter. Splinter had been the pet of the exiled ninja warrior Hamato Yoshi, who was slain along with his lover, Tang Shen, by the treacherous Oroku Saki, who blamed Yoshi for the death of his brother, Oroku Nagi. THIS TEXT IS FROM: https://theweek.com/captured/446321/fascinating-origin-story-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles Staff, T. W. (2015, January 8). The fascinating origin story of the teenage mutant ninja turtles. The Week. Retrieved January 6, 2022, from https://theweek.com/captured/446321/fascinating-origin-story-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles
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