<Li> Foot Soldiers / Ninjas--The ninjas of the Foot Clan, working for the Shredder . </Li> <Li> Karai--A female high - rank member of the Foot Clan, she has appeared in several different TMNT comics, cartoons, and films, as well as in multiple video games . In some incarnations of the character, she is closely related to Shredder as his adopted daughter or biological granddaughter . In most works, she shares an ambiguous rivalry with Leonardo, which occasionally even borders on romantic interest . </Li> <P> Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered in May 1984, at a comic book convention held at a local Sheraton Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire . It was published by Mirage Studios in an oversized magazine - style format using black and white artwork on cheap newsprint, limited to a print run of only 3,250 copies . Through a clever media kit that included a press release in Comic Buyer's Guide #542 and a full - page ad placed in Comic Buyer's Guide #547, the public's interest was piqued and thus began the Turtle phenomenon . The small print runs made these early comics and trade magazines instant collector items, and within months, they were trading for over 50 times their cover price . The name "Mirage Studios" was chosen because of Eastman and Laird's lack of a professional art studio at the start of their career, before their creation made them both multimillionaires . </P> <P> Mirage also published a bimonthly companion book entitled Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, featuring art by Ryan Brown and Jim Lawson, which was designed to fill in the gaps of continuity in the TMNT universe . This put the original series and Tales in the same mainstream continuity, and the two are thus canon to each other . The title's first volume was from 1987--1989, released in alternating months with the regular Eastman and Laird book . All seven issues of volume one have been collected in trade paperback form twice, and 25 issues of volume two have been collected in trades of five issues each . </P>

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