Jim Henson's Labyrinth #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJim Henson's Labyrinth #1 (2024) marks the first time A.C.H. Smith's 1986 novelization of Jim Henson's fantasy film has ever been adapted into sequential graphic form — a meaningful distinction, since the novelization contains scenes and dialogue that were never captured in the final film, giving readers genuinely new narrative territory rather than a straight retread of footage they already know. The series arrived timed to build toward the film's 40th anniversary and sits within a long tradition of BOOM! Studios' Archaia imprint stewarding Henson-world licenses in prestige comic format. As the first proper graphic retelling of the Smith novelization, it adds a new dimension to the Labyrinth media ecosystem — bridging the cult film, its literary companion, and the sequential-art medium in a single project. Critically, reviewers noted that artist Giorgio Spalletta's visuals give the property a genuinely distinct interpretive voice, separate from both the live-action film and the various anthology comics that preceded it.
Jim Henson's Labyrinth #1 (2024, Boom! Studios) kicks off a visually rich journey with a fresh take on the beloved mythos, reimagining Sarah’s fateful wish as she confronts the consequences of her impulsive plea. Written by Kyla Vanderklugt alongside the original creative minds of the film—Jim Henson, Dennis Lee, Terry Jones, and A. C. H. Smith—and brought to life by Giorgio Spalletta’s expressive art and Sara Cuomo’s vivid colors, the issue captures the dreamlike tension of Sarah’s desperate race against time. Cover by Miguel Mercado sets the tone with a hauntingly elegant portrait of Jareth, the Goblin King, watching as Sarah steps into the labyrinth.
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The project's origins trace to a Kickstarter-backed BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign launched in the lead-up to San Diego Comic-Con 2023, through which BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company announced the first-ever graphic adaptation of A.C.H. Smith's novelization, to be serialized across 2024 and later collected into a graphic novel. Writer Kyla Vanderklugt, previously known for Demon in the Wood, and Italian artist Giorgio Spalletta — a veteran of BOOM!'s Alice Ever After and Alice Never After series, as well as work for Sergio Bonelli Editore and Dynamite Entertainment — were announced as the creative team, with color work by Sara Cuomo and lettering by Jim Campbell. The series was released under BOOM!'s award-winning Archaia imprint, which had previously published an array of Henson properties including The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Labyrinth: Coronation, and multiple Labyrinth anthology specials dating back to Free Comic Book Day 2012.
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- Published September 18, 2024 by BOOM! Studios under its Archaia imprint, in partnership with The Jim Henson Company.
- First issue in an 8-issue serialized comic adaptation of A.C.H. Smith's 1986 novelization of Jim Henson's film Labyrinth — the first-ever graphic adaptation of that novelization.
- The source novelization (first published in the U.S. by Henry Holt in 1986, reprinted by Archaia in 2014) contains scenes not present in the finished film, including dialogue replacing David Bowie's musical sequences and expanded backstory on Sarah's mother — content that carries into the comic.
- Written by Kyla Vanderklugt (Demon in the Wood) with interior art by Giorgio Spalletta (Alice Never After, Alice Ever After), colors by Sara Cuomo, and lettering by Jim Campbell.
- Main cover by Miguel Mercado; variant covers by Elizabeth Torque, Veronica Fish, and David Mack, with additional retailer incentive virgin variants at 1:10, 1:25, and 1:50 ratios.
- The 2024 series is distinct from the original Marvel Comics adaptation of the film (a three-part series written by Sid Jacobson and drawn by John Buscema, released November 1986–January 1987 and later reprinted by BOOM! as an Archive Edition).
- The project was crowd-funded as part of BOOM!'s Direct Reserve campaign on Kickstarter, announced at SDCC 2023, and later solicited through the traditional Diamond/Lunar distribution chain for the September 2024 release.
- Labyrinth (1986) was Jim Henson's final feature film as director; the 40th anniversary of the film falls in 2026, and the comic series was conceived as part of that multi-year anniversary programming.
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Reprinted in Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Graphic Novel #[nn] (2025)
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