Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mirage studio production – Leonardo – 1992

A holy grail of collectibles for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans. Extremely interesting but tumultuous history.Craig “A.C.” Farley who is probably most known for his covers from TMNT comic issues was asked to create a high-end collectible to celebrate Mirage Studios reaching its 50th comic issue milestone. Leonardo was the first bust created and there were rumors that each of the four turtles were planned to have their own. Initially, 500 of these Leonardo busts were planned in the production run. There is a “1 of 500” printed at the bottom of the cover label. For clarity, these did not end up being individually numbered – each box says “1 of 500.” Unfortunately, only about 80 of the statues were produced due to issues with the company, Geometrics. These were designed to be cast in bronze-filled resin but, the 80 produced were made in white resin (like this one).Wanting to deliver on their advertised product to produce a bronze bust, Mirage contracted a local artist to paint each bust. However, despite being told about the mold release agent, the local artist did not wash the white resin thoroughly enough to entirely remove the mold release agent. As a result, the... lees verder bij Catawiki