The Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters

    (Eclipse, 1986-1989)
™ and ©1986 Eclipse Comics

Bruce, Chuck, Jackie, and Clint are just four normal young rodents, selected to serve as guinea pigs (how humiliating for hamsters!) on the test launch of a new NASA rocket. Cosmic rays transform them into the Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, who, after years of martial arts schooling, turn their powers to the benefit of all mankind.

They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and if that’s true, then who could doubt the sincerity of writer Don Chin, artist Parsonavich, and editor Cat Yronwode in their efforts to flatter (and capitalize on) the most surprising comics success story of the mid-1980s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

			Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $4.00 7 copies available from $1.25		1st appearance of The Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters; Origin of The Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters; B&W	Don Chin	Christopher Parsonavich
	#1 - 2nd printing Date:  Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $3.75 3 copies available from $5.00		1st appearance of The Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters; Origin of The Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters	Don Chin	Christopher Parsonavich
	#1 Gold Edition Date:  Cover Price:  $3.95 NM Guide Price:  $21.00 No copies available		Published by Parody; 500 copies printed
	#2 Date:  2/1/1988 Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $3.00 10 copies available from $1.00		Spring 1986	Don Chin	Parsonavich
	#3 Date:  7/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $2.75 11 copies available from $0.99			Don Chin	Parsonavich
	#4 Date:  11/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $2.75 4 copies available from $2.25			Don Chin	Parsonavich
	#5 Date:  2/1/1987 Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $4.25 5 copies available from $2.99			Don Chin	Parsonavich
	#6 Date:  5/1/1987 Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $5.50 2 copies available from $1.75				Sam Kieth
	#7 Date:  8/1/1987 Cover Price:  $1.50 NM Guide Price:  $2.50 1 copy available for $9.99		Death of Bruce; B&W	Don Chin	Sam Kieth
	#8 Date:  10/1/1987 Cover Price:  $2.00 NM Guide Price:  $10.00 1 copy available for $19.99		B&W	Don Chin	Sam Kieth
	#9 Date:  1/1/1988 Cover Price:  $2.00 NM Guide Price:  $14.00 1 copy available for $44.99		Final Issue; B&W	Don Chin	Sam Kieth
	Book #1 Date:  5/1/1990 Cover Price:  $9.95 NM Guide Price:  $29.00 No copies available		America the Beautiful; Limited to 350 signed and numbered copies	Don Chin	Parsonavich