Publication information Publisher Mirage Studios First appearance Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (May 1984) Created by Kevin Eastman Peter Laird In-story information Base(s) Manhattan Member(s) Leonardo Michelangelo Donatello Raphael The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( TMNT ), often shortened to Ninja Turtles , are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic