TMNT Story List: Volume 4 Era (2001 – 2010)

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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.

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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

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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 Power
This 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 Man
A 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.