Eastman & Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meet The Conservation Corps Special # 1 1992 Oil Spill Chapter 1: Espirit De Corps pg 45 by Dan Nakrosis Jon D’Agostino & Chris Allen
Eastman & Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meet The Conservation Corps Special # 1 September 1992 Ink over pencil on 11x17 Archie Comics Pub. art board "Oil Spill Chapter 1: Espirit De Corps" pg 45 Script: Paul Castiglia & Dan Nakrosis (Signed lower left) Pencils & Letters: Dan Nakrosis (Signed lower left) Inks: Jon D’Agostino The Turtles, Splinter & April penciled by: Chris Allan Conservation Corps created by: Dan Nakrosis (Signed lower left) & Paul Castiglia Cover: Scott Shaw!
In the lair, Mike, Leo and Don lay in wait to pummel Raph with water-balloons the moment he steps through the entrance. They pummel Splinter instead. As Splinter begins berating them for wasting water, an emergency broadcast from April O’Neil draws their attention. The Atlantic Ocean has a major oil spill and the Turtles go see what they can do to help.
Out in space, a member of a dying alien race, Benevolence, has sought out Earth to deliver his enviro-pods: the last remnants of his over-industrialized homeworld. Suddenly, a meteor shower damages his ship and he crashes in the Antarctic. Benevolence ejects the enviro-pods to spread across the globe. At Stone Henge, a pod meets a hedgehog, transforming him into Stonehedgehog. In North America, a pod meets a water buffalo, transforming him into the brilliantly named Water Buffalo. In the Amazon rainforest, a pod meets a firefly, transforming him into… sigh. Firefly. In the African Savannah, a pod meets a rhinoceros, transforming him to Green Horn. And the final pod lands in the Pacific Ocean.
Out in the Atlantic, the Turtles and Splinter have taken a boat to the source of the oil spill. Cudley flies down from the sky to tell them of the creatures he found, but a worse creature interrupts him; a giant oil-covered duck whose mere presence kills all wildlife around him. The duck explains that the radioactive oil within the punctured tanker killed his family and mutated him into a very angry monster. The duck attacks the Turtles and destroys their boat. Fearing the worst, Cudley leaves to retrieve the creatures he saw earlier.
Finding them, the Conservation Corps mistakes Cudley for an “ecological mishap” and attack him. Cudley swallows them and takes them back to the oil spill. While Cudley was gone, Splinter sank beneath the waves and Don went down after him. Water Buffalo dives down and creates an air bubble to bring the pair back to the surface. Recovering, Splinter recommends the two teams work together to defeat the polluting duck.
As the duck proceeds to pollute the ocean with more oil, the teams attack. Their combined skills knock the fowl out cold, he revives, hears the story about Benevolence and decides to takes the alien's powers for himself. Oily Bird declares that he will fill the world’s waterways with oil, creating global warming, because if he can’t have a clean planet then no one else can, either. As Oily Bird flies away, he shouts that he’s created four oil leaks to keep the good guys busy while he tracks down Benevolence.
The teams decide to break up into pairs to deal with each threat. But as Cudley leaves with the heroes and Splinter stays behind, the sensei is kidnapped by Oily Bird.
Arriving in the Canadian tundra, Raph and Firefly spot a geyser of oil. Raph plugs the geyser with a pillar of ice and Firefly melts it airtight, ceiling the oil back in the ground. In the canals of Venice, an oil leak has sprung below. Water Buffalo parts the canal and Don plugs the leak with rocks. At Hoover Dam, Stonehedgehog uses his rock powers to plug a leak in the Colorado River while Mike rushes to the Dam. At the Amazon River Basin, the oil leak has caused a forest fire. Leo uses his katana to create a fire break while Green Horn rescues the animals. Green Horn then uses his vegetation powers to create a wooden plug for the leak.
At the South Pole, Oily Bird finds Benevolence. He prepares to enact his plan when suddenly the TMNT and the Conservation Corps arrive. Oily Bird draws enough oil to the South Pole to create a massive explosion, knocking Earth out of its orbit. As Oily Bird trounces the heroes, Benevolence uses the last of his ship’s power to fly it into the geyser of flame, putting it out and restoring Earth’s orbit. Unfortunately, this causes his ship to explode. The explosion knocks Oily Bird out, though Benevolence has reached his last leg.
Benevolence makes the Conservation Corps vow to protect the environment on Earth and across the universe. He then asks Cudley to take him and Oily Bird back to his dying homeworld.
