Gizmo Sprocket

Gizmo Sprocket is a small-statured independent comics character who debuted in Kevin Lenagh's Domino Chance before headlining their own Mirage series, Gizmo, and crossing over with characters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the 1980s indie comics scene.

A scrappy Bronze Age original, Gizmo Sprocket first sparked to life in Kevin Lenagh's Domino Chance #7 in 1983 — right in the fertile independent comics underground that made Mirage Studios such an exciting corner of the medium. Over nearly two decades, this pint-sized character carved out a niche worthy of their own dedicated series, Gizmo, while also sharing pages with some of the most beloved characters in indie comics history: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themselves, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michaelangelo. Sixteen appearances across titles like TMNT and Domino Chance may sound modest, but in Mirage's tight-knit, creator-driven world, that kind of company speaks volumes — Gizmo Sprocket is a genuine artifact of the scrappy, imaginative spirit that made Bronze Age independent comics so worth digging for.