DOVER, N.H. — As the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" became a pop culture sensation, the place where they were conceived was rarely mentioned.
It wasn't the New York City sewers, where the Turtles mutated from regular reptiles into a crime-fighting quartet who battled foes with nunchucks, snark and pizza. Rather, it was a small city near the New Hampshire coast. A new exhibit hopes to put that community — Dover, New Hampshire — at the center of the Turtles' story and, in turn, attract fans or anyone else who grew up reading the comics and watching the movies and TV shows.
At one point in the 1980s, the frenzy around the Turtles was called Turtlemania. "It's the birthplace," said Kevin Eastman, who with Peter Laird created the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" 41 years ago when the two shared a house in Dover. The first issue went on sale a year later.
"That's where the Turtles were created. ..
. It is very historic and very important to us." People are also reading.
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