Teenage Mutant Turtles ephemera: the precambrian merchandising explosion

Brain Rot's Ed Piskor says:

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I was just digging around in my comic collection and found this great
editorial in an old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic, that appeared
just before the merchandising onslaught took place. You might dig it.
In all those old editorials, a real, episodic, narrative took place,
starting with Eastman and Laird borrowing money to print up the first
books, while living on Ramen, to being surprised at the amount of
copies they needed to fill demand, to what this editorial contains,
and beyond. They read like those "American dream" type stories we all
heard about.

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