Mirage Studios Marvel Comics ' The New Mutants featured teenage mutants and anthropomorphic animals .
Using money from a tax refund together with a loan from Eastman 's uncle , they formed Mirage Studios and self-published a single-issue comic book that would parody four popular comics of the early 1980s : Marvel Comics ' The New Mutants , which featured teenage mutants , Cerebus , which featured anthropomorphic animals , Ronin , and Daredevil , which featured ninja clans dueling for control of the New York City underworld .
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