Marvel Comics Celebrates "The Muppet Show" 50th Anniversary With 'The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe' One-Shot
It’s time to play the music and assemble Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, 🐷🐸🌈🪕💥
This September, The Muppets come to the Marvel Universe for the very first time in THE MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #1, a one-shot celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Muppet Show with all-new stories uniting the beloved gang of Muppets with the iconic heroes of Marvel Comics!
The new one-shot follows the success of last year’s homage variant covers commemorating The Muppets 70th anniversary, and to celebrate the new launch, more Muppet variant covers will be featured across titles throughout September.
The Muppets Take The Marvel Universe
Tonight’s very special guest stars—the Marvel Universe! Enjoy epic tales told in the Mighty Marvel Muppet Manner including:
Rowlf the Dog is kidnapped by Mojo to help launch his new streaming service! It’s the crossover no one saw coming as Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Wolverine, Emma Frost, and many more team up to save the day in this pop culture history-making adventure by Chip Zdarsky and Pete Woods.
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker welcome Bruce Banner and Hank Pym to Muppet Labs for a daring experiment with Gamma Rays and Pym Particles! What could go wrong? Find out in this explosive story from Kyle Starks and Mike Henderson.
When Clea falls ill from a mystical virus and Doctor Strange doesn’t have the cure—help arrives from the unlikeliest of sources: the Swedish Chef, in this appetizing tale from Ashley Allen and Paco Medina.
Pigs in Space meet raccoons in space! Cosmic chaos ensues when Captain Link Hogthrob, First Mate Piggy, and Dr. Julius Strangepork crash into Rocket Raccoon and Groot in an intergalactic romp by MacKenzie Cadenhead and David Baldeon.
And more, including stories by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Adam F. Goldberg, E.J. Su and Áthila Fabbio.
Written by Chip Zdarsky, Mackenzie Cadenhead, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Adam F. Goldberg, Ashley Allen, Kyle Starks & More
Art by Pete Woods, David Baldeon, Áthila Fabbio, E.J. Su, Paco Medina & Mike Henderson
"It has been exciting for The Muppets Studio to collaborate with Marvel Comics in a new and unique way to bring the personality, humor and mayhem of The Muppets into the Marvel Universe and vice versa, To do this during the 50th anniversary year of ‘The Muppet Show’ makes this project even more meaningful." - Leight Slaughter (The Muppets Studio VP)
