Up for sale is BADE BIKER & ORSON #1 — Mirage Studios, $1.50 cover price. NOTE ON DATE: references date this series' first issue to November 1986, but the cover price box on this copy reads NOV. 1988, indicating a later Mirage printing — sold exactly as pictured; check the photos of the price box.

Story and art by JIM LAWSON — a core Mirage Studios artist and one of the definitive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artists — with fully painted front AND back covers (the back cover, signed by Lawson, continues the desert scene: the alien Orson watching from the rocks). Black-and-white interiors. Bade, a kid with a red motorcycle and more nerve than sense, crosses paths with a stranded alien in the desert — an all-ages adventure from the house that built the Turtles.

The series ran just four issues (#1–4, 1986–87) and was collected in a 1988 trade paperback; issue #3 includes a Lawson TMNT pin-up. This is issue #1 of the four.

Front, back, and all corners pictured.

CONDITION: Photo grade NM- 9.2. The matte, speckled cover stock on this book shows handling mercilessly, and this copy is exceptionally clean — sharp corners and bright paint, with one tiny ding at the back cover's top-left corner, shown in the close-ups.

Ships bagged and boarded between rigid boards. Message me with questions — serious inquiries only.