Jerry Speigel wanted to do a comic book of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by following them around and putting their adventures into his comic book series, while Donatello suggested to have an original idea. However Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first published the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books in 1984 which had more of an original idea and different story line than the cartoon that debuted 3 years later.