1823 - Introducing...Karate Kid, Shang-Chi, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

With expert timing, we jump out of the shadows for another Introducing...! This time, we focus on the first appearances of some of the most nimble martial artists of the comic book world: DC's Karate Kid, Marvel's Shang-Chi (now a major motion picture), and Mirage's (now IDW's) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If you'd like to read along with us, you can find these character premieres in Adventure Comics #346, Special Marvel Edition #15, and of course, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1. These origins also manage to span the Silver, Bronze and Copper Age of comics, as America's appreciation of the martial arts went from a passing glance to a full blown obsession. How do the issues hold up? Listen in to find out, but please, don't try this at home; leave that to the Living Weapons. (1:15:35)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak episode 1823,
0:03.8	introducing Karate Kid, Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu,
0:08.9	and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
0:11.3	Music Welcome to the show. I'm Adam Murdo.
0:41.4	I'm Ian Levinstein. Excellent.
0:44.4	And I'm Chris Everley.
0:57.7	I feel like that might have been a little bit more... You delightfully knocked me off my game there a little bit.
1:00.0	I feel like that might have been a little bit more Bill and Ted than Teenager Ninja Turtles, but
1:04.0	eh, close enough.
1:06.7	Yeah, that's like...
1:07.5	I tried to do a guitar, but you couldn't really...
1:10.2	Yeah, yeah. I hear you. I hear you. That and I wish I had a slice of pizza in my hand right now. That would be the ultimate tribute. But tonight was beef and rice, and that is good enough for me. Costco hot dog for me. Damn good.
1:28.1	All right.
1:28.7	There you go.
1:29.4	Not too shabby.
1:31.3	What am I going to pick?
1:31.9	Hot pockets.
1:33.1	Hot pockets.
1:33.9	Yeah.
1:35.4	Nothing ninja about that.
1:36.9	No, no.
1:38.1	But convenient.
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