TokyoPop has dated new Disney Manga Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Battle for Pumpkin King for September 19, 2023. The 128-page book collects the five-issue miniseries written by Dan Conner, Shaun McLaughlin and D.J. Milky, with art by Deborah Allo and Roberto Scalia.
A prequel to the 1993 movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Battle for Pumpkin King will tell of the rivalry between Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie in their bid to be crowned the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. The book comes with an age rating of 8+ and retails for $15.99 from all good spooky (and not so spooky) retailers. There will also be a digital edition available for purchase. [ISBN: 9781427868435]
The solicit:
“Jack Skellington is the undisputed Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. But it wasn’t always that way…
“Years ago, Jack and Oogie Boogie were close friends. Eager to prove themselves, they poured all their passion into their creepy projects to earn their rightful place as the scariest duo in town. But there could only be one Pumpkin King! What could have happened to turn two best friends into such bitter rivals?”
TokyoPop has been rapidly growing its line of Disney Manga with translations of existing work released in Japan accompanied by the commissioning of new material. There are Disney Manga of Stitch from Lilo & Stitch (Hiroto Wada’s Stitch and the Samurai), Meru Okano’s Donald Duck Visits Japan and more. The Battle for Pumpkin King is the third Disney Manga story set in the world of Tim Burton’s cult classic 1993 stop-motion movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Previous entries include Mallory Reaves, Gabriella Chianello & Nataliya Torreta’s Mirror Moon (2022); and D.J. Milky, Kei Ishiyama, Dan Conner, Kiyoshi Aria & David Hutchison’s Zero’s Journey (2020).
