The man who inspired the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is finally joining them for a landmark issue. IDW is publishing the tremendous 300th issue of the reptilian quartet, which will feature a number of characters by noted creators. J. Scott Campbell, Stan Sakai, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and TMNT creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird are all providing covers, as is one creator who will be contributing to the series he helped inspire for the very first time. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 has a lot more going for it than its covers, of course. The main story, by regular creative team Gene Luen Yang and Freddie Williams III, sees the Turtles fighting for their lives against the evil machinations of mad scientist Baxter Stockman.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 also features a back-up story from writers Tom Waltz and Eastman, and artists Ben Bates, Eric Talbot, Chris Allan, Frank Fosco, Jim Lawon, and Dan Duncan that reintroduces Renet, a teenage “Timestress” who first graced the pages of the book in issue #8, all the way back in 1986. She’s taking a look at the extensive comics history of the Turtles, from their black-and-white early days to the modern day, with plenty of stops along the way (including that time Raphael punched Adolf Hitler).
Legendary Daredevil, Batman, and Sin City writer-artist Frank Miller is contributing a cover to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300, which is on store shelves today. Miller’s gritty, noir-infused comics were a key inspiration to Eastman and Laird, who first intended the Turtles as a send-up of then-current comics tropes. The unspoken conceit of the Turtles was that the toxic waste that robbed young Matt Murdock of his sight and granted him the super-senses of Daredevil had gone on to ooze into the sewers, where it made four abandoned pet turtles into Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. Daredevil was mentored by Stick, so the Turtles were taught by Splinter; he fights the Hand Ninjas, so they fight the Foot Ninjas. Of course, the parody elements of the series soon ended as the book proved to be immensely popular, not only launching a multimedia empire of cartoons, movies, and action figures, but also causing an explosion of black-and-white books in the indie comics scene.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
How Did ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Reach 300 Issues?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has not been continuously published for 300 issues; #300 is the 20th issue of the current volume. The 300 is derived from “legacy numbering,” which adds up the numbers of previous volumes of a series. The same process will see The Amazing Spider-Man, which is now in its seventh volume, celebrate its 1000th issue later this year.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 is available from IDW Comics in stores or digitally today. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
