April 20, 1984
This CBG contains an ad for the Portsmouth, NH, MINI-CON, which featured the premiere of Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Although there isn't an actual image of the Turtles, this ad does call out the comic by name. And the "LONG-AWAITED" refers to the Turtles earlier appearance in CBG, issue 542.
