Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was created by comic artists and writers Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, and their work was an over-the-top, hyper-violent caricature of superhero comics at the time.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 35 years since the Ninja Turtles of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello first graced movie theaters. What started as a comic ballooned into a hit cartoon ...