Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Maltese Turtle

In 1992, Mirage Studios released a single-issue, one-shot comic that mashed up the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with classic film noir detective stories. The Maltese Turtle is a standalone, black-and-white homage, written and drawn by the series' co-creator Kevin Eastman, who also handled the inks. It stands as a unique, self-contained experiment within the early Mirage era, showcasing the Turtles in a hardboiled, parody light that fans of both the franchise and pulp cinema appreciate.