Cowabunga, dudes! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turn 40 this year

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been around for four decades now and are still going strong on the comics page. — Photos: Filepic

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been around for so long that there is a chance that every single one of us has grown up with one kind of exposure or another to the four pizza-chomping ninja turtles.

Whether it was through the various television series, the movies, or a freebie comic book from a milk product, we knew Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo as “anthropomorphic ninja turtles” and NOT Italian renaissance artists!