Frank Miller was one of the major influences on Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird when the duo, then in their twenties, created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the early 1980s.
Miller’s popular work on Daredevil, which centered on a hero who received his powers from radioactive elements, finds a sensei, and fights a ninja clan named the Hand, were direct elements that the budding writer and artists borrowed in their creation of four turtles, who thanks to radioactive elements, become anthropomorphic, find a sensei, and fight a ninja clan named the Foot in New York City.
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So it’s fitting, and a little overdue, that Miller would come to work a TMNT cover.
Miller, known for his groundbreaking work on The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City, is providing one of the covers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles No. 300,
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