Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #9

From Mirage's original black-and-white era comes this September 1986 issue, "The Passing," featuring cover pencils by Kevin Eastman and inks by Peter Laird. The cover crackles with supernatural energy — two of the Turtles lunge into a chaotic scene where a human figure in a blue suit writhes amid wild electrical arcs, while a massive, looming bear-like entity radiates an ominous glowing force at the center of the action. It's a visually charged composition that captures the darker, stranger side of early TMNT storytelling at its most compelling.