Here is a list of stories from the Volume 4 era of Mirage Studios’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This was the final run of issues before Peter Laird sold the TMNT property to Viacom. Further stories would follow, however, and some of the stories on this list were also published post-sale.
This list ends with the final issue of Tales of the TMNT (Volume 2) which provides the bulk of the stories here. Also included is the fourth volume itself, some mini-series and a few other stories.
A couple of non-canon stories that still fit with the main Mirage continuity are listed in blue.
Stories are listed in order of release (ish) as well as details of where and when they first appeared. Short stories are indicated by “(short)” after their name and a story that appeared in colour is indicated with “(colour)”.
For a guide to shelf-friendly collected editions where these stories can be read, see:
TMNT Volume 4 Bookshelf link coming soon
Additional notes can be found at the end of the list.
Volume 4 (2001 – 2010)
Volume 4
(Vol. 4) #1-32
December 2001 – June 2006, April 2008, May 2009, October 2010, May 2014
Not Forgotten
Tales (Vol. 2) #1
January 2004
Seeds of Destruction
Tales (Vol. 2) #2
April 2004
The Worms of Madness
Tales (Vol. 2) #3-4
May – July 2004
Green (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #3
May 2004
The Grape (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #4
July 2004
Blind Faith
Tales (Vol. 2) #5
September 2004
Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight
Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight #1-4
June – September 2006
Scars
Tales (Vol. 2) #6
November 2004
The Raisin' (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #6
November 2004
Darkness Weaves
Tales (Vol. 2) #7
January 2005
Virus
Tales (Vol. 2) #8
March 2005
The Risen (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #8
March 2005
The Path
Tales (Vol. 2) #9
March 2005
Community Service (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #9
March 2005
Kaddish
Tales (Vol. 2) #10
April 2005
The Question (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #10
April 2005
The Quick and the Dead
Tales (Vol. 2) #11
May 2005
Paris Nocturne
Tales (Vol. 2) #12
June 2005
Loops
Tales (Vol. 2) #13-14
July – August 2005
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (short) (colour)
Digital Webbing Presents #24
August 2005
First Mud/Apocalypse Vow/Altered Fates/The Doors of Deception (shorts)
Tales (Vol. 2) #14, 15, 18, 25
August 2005 – July 2006
Hell's Blacktop
Tales (Vol. 2) #15
September 2005
Sins of the Past
Tales (Vol. 2) #16
October 2005
Wrong Turn
Tales (Vol. 2) #17
November 2005
The Blue Hole
Tales (Vol. 2) #18
December 2005
A Ghost Story
Tales (Vol. 2) #19
January 2006
The Trophy (12 pages)
Tales (Vol. 2) #20
February 2006
The Cure
Tales (Vol. 2) #20
February 2006
The Rippling (14 pages)
Tales (Vol. 2) #20
February 2006
A (Bull) Wrinkle in Time
Tales (Vol. 2) #21
March 2006
Change of Power
Tales (Vol. 2) #22
April 2006
Attack of the Replicants
Tales (Vol. 2) #23
May 2006
Rock of Ages
Tales (Vol. 2) #24
June 2006
Kung-Fu Theatre
Tales (Vol. 2) #25
July 2006
My Hero! (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #25
July 2006
The Value of Gold
Tales (Vol. 2) #26
August 2006
White Horses
Tales (Vol. 2) #27
September 2006
Shanghaied
Tales (Vol. 2) #28
October 2006
Channeling (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #28
October 2006
Soul Survivor
Tales (Vol. 2) #29
November 2006
Circle of Darkness
Tales (Vol. 2) #30
December 2006
The Mother of All Anger (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #30
December 2006
Reflections
Tales (Vol. 2) #31
January 2007
[re-imagined (Vol. 1) #8]
Las Tortugas Ninja Volumen 2 trade paperback
February 2007
The Eye of Aga-Moo-Tou
Tales (Vol. 2) #32
April 2007
The Bait
Tales (Vol. 2) #33
April 2007
Credo (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #33
April 2007
Splinter Cell
Tales (Vol. 2) #34
May 2007
The Pantheon
Tales (Vol. 2) #35
June 2007
Secret Spirit (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #35
June 2007
Raphael: Bad Moon Rising
Raphael: Bad Moon Rising #1-4
July – October 2007
To Serve and Protect
Tales (Vol. 2) #36
July 2007
Casey in Point
Tales (Vol. 2) #37
August 2007
Triptyche
Tales (Vol. 2) #38
October 2007
Aww... Rats!
Tales (Vol. 2) #38
October 2007
What Wolves Wear
Tales (Vol. 2) #39
October 2007
Silent Night
Tales (Vol. 2) #40
November 2007
Swan Song
Tales (Vol. 2) #41
December 2007
Fathers and Daughters (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #41
December 2007
The Curious Case of Mr Jones
Tales (Vol. 2) #42
January 2008
The Proposal
Tales (Vol. 2) #43
February 2008
The Amulet
Tales (Vol. 2) #44
March 2008
The Lessons (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #44
March 2008
Rocks
Tales (Vol. 2) #45
April 2008
Temps
Tales (Vol. 2) #46
May 2008
The Secret Origins of the Super Turtles
Tales (Vol. 2) #47
July 2008
The Decider
Tales (Vol. 2) #48
July 2008
One's Shadow! (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #48
July 2008
Mined Games
Tales (Vol. 2) #49
August 2008
Michelangelo: The Third Kind
Michelangelo: The Third Kind #1-4
September – December 2008
Life on Earth (short)
Michelangelo: The Third Kind #4
December 2008
World's Deadliest
Tales (Vol. 2) #50
September 2008
Threads (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #50
September 2008
Night of the Living Gingerbread
Tales (Vol. 2) #51
October 2008
The Crystal at the Heart of the World
Tales (Vol. 2) #52
November 2008
The Mission (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #52
November 2008
Alien Invaders
Tales (Vol. 2) #53
December 2008
This Mortal Shell (18 pages)
Tales (Vol. 2) #53
December 2008
Ghosts of Christmas Past (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #53
December 2008
Mere Appendix
Tales (Vol. 2) #54
January 2009
Day in the Life
Tales (Vol. 2) #55
February 2009
Hun
Tales (Vol. 2) #56
March 2009
Gangs All Here
Tales (Vol. 2) #57
April 2009
All Tomorrow's Yesterdays
Tales (Vol. 2) #58
May 2009
Exposé
Tales (Vol. 2) #59
June 2009
Nobody Does it Better
Tales (Vol. 2) #60
July 2009
Sometimes They Come Back
Tales (Vol. 2) #61
August 2009
Adventures in Bunnysitting
Tales (Vol. 2) #62
September 2009
Donatello: The Brain Thief
Donatello: The Brain Thief #1-4
September 2009 – January 2010
Monster Island
Tales (Vol. 2) #63
October 2009
The Burning Man
Tales (Vol. 2) #64
November 2009
Cold, Cold Ice
Tales (Vol. 2) #65
January 2010
There's No Place Like Home
Tales (Vol. 2) #66
January 2010
Schooled
Tales (Vol. 2) #67
February 2010
Heroes in a Half Cell
Tales (Vol. 2) #68
March 2010
A Klunk Adventure (short)
Tales (Vol. 2) #68
March 2010
Dark Shadows
Tales (Vol. 2) #69
April 2010
Zog
Tales (Vol. 2) #70
May 2010
NOTES
Post-sale releases
Viacom purchased the TMNT property from Peter Laird in late October 2009, but he maintained the right to publish up to eighteen TMNT comics a year set in the Mirage universe. For this list, stories from titles that were being released pre-sale have been included. The issues released post-sale that feature on this list are Tales (Vol. 2) #64-70, Donatello: The Brain Thief #3-4 and (Vol. 4) #31-32.
Volume 4
Although #22 can be read as a standalone issue, Volume 4 issues flow into each other as one continuous story. Issues were printed without titles and so the whole run is listed here as simply “Volume 4”. Although previously available digitally, #31 received a physical release in May 2015 (a year after #32). To date the story remains unfinished.
Seeds of Destruction/ The Quick and the Dead
Two linked stories featuring Foot Mystics, listed separately as some time has passed between them. A third story was promised but never materialised.
Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight
The placement of this story has been moved forward as it spins out of (and follows on shortly after) Blind Faith.
First Mud/Apocalypse Vow/Altered Fates/The Doors of Deception
Unlike previous shorts with the Utrom, this series of adventures featuring Professor Obligado all flow into one another so are grouped together. The story was unfinished, but a conclusion would later serve as a prologue to Origin. link at some point
The Trophy/The Rippling/This Mortal Shell
The page count for these stories has been noted as they are longer than a typical short, but shorter than a full-blown adventure.
Change of PowerThis story introduced the “Mistress” and set up something that would not be concluded in subsequent issues of
Tales. However, writer Ross May posted an outline for a follow-up story on his blog, with artist Scott Cohn posting pencils for the cover and first nine pages on his blog. May would also post a script/summary of the concluding third part.
More details here.
The character of the Mistress would also feature in an unreleased “Gang Wars” story as well as the fan-produced Volume 3 conclusion.
re-imagined (Vol. 1) #8
In 2003 Peter Laird announced a “re-imagining” of (Vol. 1) #8 that would “replace the original #8 in official Mirage continuity and tell an all-new tale of how the Turtles met Savanti Romero and the timestress Renet”. Possibly commissioned due to doubts that the original story featuring Dave Sim’s Cerebus could be reprinted, it was said it was likely to be printed sometime that year.
That didn’t happen, but it would later see print in 2007 in Spain as part of Norma Editorial’s Las Tortugas Ninja Volumen 2 and in 2016 in Russia as part of Illusion Studios’ Tales of the TMNT Vol. 1. The Russian release included a one-page epilogue that had been left out of the Spanish release. There has never been an official English language release of the story but a fan translation (based on the Spanish release) was produced and printed as an unofficial Tales of the TMNT (Vol. 2) #71.
Peter Laird would later comment on his blog “I actually prefer the original #8, and since I was able to come to a meeting of the minds with Dave Sim about it, I would say that THAT is the "canon" version”. However, the story is written in a way that it can still fit, so it has been included on this list.
Raphael: Bad Moon Rising
Like Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight, this story spins out of the events of a Tales (Vol. 2) issue (specifically #7), but is set almost a year later and so not grouped with the previous tale.
To Serve and Protect/Hun/Exposé/Sometimes They Come Back/The Burning ManA series of linked stories, listed separately as they don’t directly follow on from each other. This “Gang Wars” storyline lacks a conclusion, but writer Tristan Jones posted outlines for a number of other instalments on his blog, including the original (rejected) three-part conclusion that was to follow
To Serve and Protect.
More details here.
A Gang Wars short would later be included in TMNT 40th Anniversary Comics Celebration.
Silent Night
This story was printed without a title, but was given one on the Mirage website.
The Crystal at the Heart of the World/ All Tomorrow's Yesterdays
A two-part story, but with a mention that time has passed between parts, so these are listed separately.
This Mortal Shell
Produced by students of the Centre for Cartoon Studies (Vermont), the introduction to this issue specifically noted it as being non-canon. However, it doesn’t contradict anything so has been included on this list.
