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Leatherhead as he is seen in the Mirage Comics: Volume 1 incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesĪfter two children are found slain and half-eaten in the sewers Leonardo comes to believe that Leatherhead may have been responsible. Xeinos the Utrom, also appears in this issue in a female scientist's exoskeleton. Out for a swim, Leatherhead encounters a group of aliens called Sigmurethites and attacks them. 1 #6 by having the gator-man tumble into the underground gorge with the evil big game hunter, but the Turtles' creator Peter Laird nixed the idea, opting to have Leatherhead survive and return to the sewers with the Turtles.īrown returned to plot his creation after 19 years in the September 2007 issue of Tales of the TMNT. In the past, at several comic conventions, Leatherhead creator Ryan Brown has said that he initially intended to kill the character off at the end of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vol. These events all take place between volumes 2 and 4 of the Mirage series. Leatherhead returns to Earth with the Turtles, rather than going back to the Utrom homeworld. The Turtles rescued Leatherhead, defeated the clones and aided in the destruction of the Illuminated. It also caused his missing eye to heal and gave him a massive increase in size. It is revealed that the Illuminated were secretly drugging Leatherhead, which caused him to subconsciously build the second Transmat Device that he was working on in issue #8, then wake up and remember little. In issue #23, the Turtles are recruited by the Utroms to save Leatherhead from a renegade group of Utrom radicals called "The Illuminated", the same ones who took him away in issue #8, in attempts to clone him into an army of mutants to aid in their world "cleansing" agenda. Once the Transmat Device was finished, it suddenly kicked into operation and causes three Utroms to appear these Utroms blast Leatherhead with a ray gun, and take him away, destroying the Transmat Device as they leave. Leatherhead seems to harbor an insane grudge against Donatello and nearly kills Raphael when he mistakes him for Donatello (all four TMNT wear red bandanas in the original appearances). In issue #8, a mentally unstable and delusional Leatherhead is discovered by Raphael to be building another Transmat Device. He has also appeared in two issues of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 2. It is unknown what his current relationship with the Turtles is, but Raphael's comment that he hopes that he did not hurt Leatherhead would make it seem as if they are at least on good terms.
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He is then seen wrestling a mutated Raphael in the sewers before swimming off. He makes an appearance at Master Splinter's funeral. Leatherhead later resurfaced in Volume 4. This failure was too much for Leatherhead to handle and in a fit of rage, Leatherhead killed his two Foot assistants and vowed revenge on the Turtles, whom he blamed for wrecking his attempt to get "home". Unfortunately, instead of teleporting Leatherhead, the device simply blew up in his face. Eventually, the Transmat Device was complete, so Leatherhead could finally reach the Utrom Homeworld. Embarrassed by the incident, the Turtles decided to aid the mutant alligator. After a brief skirmish, the Turtles learned that the Foot Ninja were actually helping Leatherhead. Accepting the help, Leatherhead and the ninja set to work creating the Transmat, only to be interrupted by the Turtles. Fearing that Leatherhead would kill them, the ninjas tried to get on Leatherhead's good side by promising to aid him in creating his Transmat Device. Aiding Leatherhead in defeating the hunter, the Turtles decided to allow Leatherhead to live in their old home.Įventually, four Foot Clan ninjas encountered an eye-patch-wearing Leatherhead in the sewers. During one attack by the hunter, Leatherhead met the Turtles. The now-homeless Leatherhead was forced to live in the sewers where he was continually attacked by a big-game hunter called Jack Marlin. Living with the Utroms, Leatherhead ended up being separated from his "family" when the TCRI building self-destructed. During his stay with the Utroms, Leatherhead was exposed to mutagen, which caused him to mutate into a humanoid and intelligent being. While in the sewers, Leatherhead was found by a pair of TCRI Utroms, who decided to bring the creature to their headquarters. Originally, Leatherhead was nothing more than an infantile alligator that had escaped a robbery at a pet store and found his way into the sewers.