Say "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and the image that pops into most people's heads will be the 80s version. The second most will probably be in the grittier style of the original Mirage comics, no doubt helped by the design of the original Playmates toys as well as The Last Ronin miniseries, both of which evoked them. Pretty much everything else to my knowledge gets completely forgotten.
Say "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and the image that pops into most people's heads will be the 80s version. The second most will probably be in the grittier style of the original Mirage comics, no doubt helped by the design of the original Playmates toys as well as The Last Ronin miniseries, both of which evoked them. Pretty much everything else to my knowledge gets completely forgotten.