A TMNT Daredevil crossover was apparently seriously discussed between Marvel and Mirage back in the late '90s but obviously nothing ever came of it.
According to Dan Berger last year Mirage approached Marvel with the idea of crossovers between the TMNT and some of their characters and there was a lot of excitement from the creative and editorial staff but the big wigs passed because they didn't want the turtles to establish a bigger market presence. Now that the TMNT is owned a big company I'd imagine they'd be even more opposed to the idea.
We had Tales of the TMNT which was published monthly any of the writers who worked on that could write it and Mirage has reserved the right to publish 18 issues a year and distribute them however they want but they arn't taking the opportunity at this time. Though I doubt they'd be the ones publishing a book of this type anyway, it'd be Marvel themselves and with Nick involved they'd want to be either the versions of the turtles from their upcoming movie which is still supposed to be a "darker" Mirage-eqsue adaption or the ones from the cartoon they have in development which is supposed to be a return to the 80's pizza eating, surfer slang, endless mutant animals, Dimenion-X turtles.the problem with the idea of a crossover is we have no idea what's going on with the TMNT series now that Nick owns the rights to the TMNT...even before the deal happened the comic was only releasing a new issue once every couple of years...who knows what's going to happen to the series now
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