The Dark Crystal
Marvel comics published a popular two-part comic book series based on the movie. The comics were sold in April and May of 1983. This was the first time Marvel would do a comic based on one of Jim Henson's movies and it turned out to be the first in a series. Marvel would also do comic books based on The Muppets Take Manhattan in 1984 and Labyrinth in 1986. In addition Marvel also produced two long running comic book series based on the Muppet Babies animated TV show and Fraggle Rock. These two titles were offered through their Star Comics brand of children's comics.
Marvel also published the two Dark Crystal comics together in a "Marvel Super Special" magazine sized edition.
Here is a comparison showing the difference in the colouring for the magazine from the comic book. Each page was completely recoloured with more detail than the smaller comics.
To make up the extra pages needed for this format there are about 13 pages of movie photos and concept art at the back following the comic, and three movie photo pages at the front of the book. Below is the back cover with an awesome full page photo of Jen on the crystal!
Labyrinth
Here are the Marvel comic books of the movie Labyrinth, published in 1986 as a three part series.
Just as they did with their comics of The Dark Crystal and The Muppets Take Manhattan, Marvel published all three of the Labyrinth comics together in a "Marvel Super Special" magazine sized edition.
Here is a comparison of the two versions of the comics showing how the pages were all coloured differently for the magazine sized edition. Hoggle's pants are brown instead of green, and there are other subtle differences (the grass, the yellow flash around the door, skin tones, etc.) Each page is different from the smaller version! There are also no advertisements in the larger edition, and photos from the movie are shown on the last page. Below is the back page of the comic with an awesome full page photo of Sarah and Jareth.
