The Muppets Crash the Marvel Universe for a 50th Anniversary Team-Up

Marvel is celebrating 50 years of The Muppet Show the only way it knows how: by throwing Kermit, Piggy, and the whole gang into a fight alongside the Avengers. The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe one-shot hits shelves September 23, 2026, uniting Jim Henson's felt-and-foam cast with Marvel's biggest names for the first time.

Eisner winner and self-professed Muppets superfan Chip Zdarsky writes the lead story with artist Pete Woods, sending Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Wolverine after Rowlf, who's been kidnapped by Mojo. The anthology issue doesn't stop there: additional stories pair Muppet Labs with Bruce Banner and Hank Pym for a gamma-ray mishap, put the Swedish Chef in the middle of a Doctor Strange mystical cure, and send the Pigs in Space crew colliding with Rocket Raccoon and Groot, with a rotating lineup of writers and artists handling each segment.

Naturally, a crossover this size comes with a variant cover stack to match — additional covers come from Nick Bradshaw, Humberto Ramos, Ron Lim, and Matteo Lolli, including a Muppet Treasure Island 30th-anniversary homage and a logo mashup variant. It's a pure novelty one-shot, but a genuinely rare bit of cross-company magic for two of pop culture's biggest properties.

Original reporting: Marvel.com.