Comics & Books

Official books2017–2026Bundles and exclusives Other official Zelda books museum books, bundle guides and art books · 4 entries The official Zelda books that never reached the bookshop shelf: a museum-only 40th-anniversary book, a guide packed into a Black Friday bundle, a remake’s art book, and a word on the strategy guides. Entries4 NewestNintendo Museum Official … Read more

Official book2024Art and historyEnglish edition due 2027 Tears of the Kingdom Master Works Secrets of the Zonai in English · art, making-of and history The big book of Tears of the Kingdom: illustrations, nearly 300 pages of design work and notes, a new history of Hyrule from before its founding, and interviews with the three … Read more

Official book2017Art and history424 pages Creating a Champion Breath of the Wild Master Works · art, design and history The book of Breath of the Wild: Takumi Wada’s illustrations, nearly 300 pages of annotated design art, a 55-page history of the game’s Hyrule and four interviews, in a white cover made for Hylia. Made byNintendo, … Read more

Official book2017Goddess Collection328 pages The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Hyrule Hyakka · the 30th-anniversary compendium Nintendo’s 30th-anniversary reference book: three decades of Hyrule, from the 1986 original to Twilight Princess HD, sorted into lore, a database of places, items and monsters, and an archive of every game. Made byNintendo; edited in Japan by Ambit JapanTokuma … Read more

Official book2016Dark Horse 2017Goddess Collection Art & Artifacts The 30th-anniversary illustration book · 2016 Thirty years of Hyrule in more than 2,000 pictures: box art, manual drawings, character sheets and sprites from 1986 to Tri Force Heroes, a first taste of Breath of the Wild and a roundtable with the artists, in a red hardback … Read more

Official book2011Dark Horse 2013Goddess Collection Hyrule Historia The 25th-anniversary history and art book · 2011 The book that finally put the Zelda games in order: Nintendo’s 25th-anniversary history of Hyrule, with a Skyward Sword art section, the long-awaited official timeline, a quarter-century of concept art and a bonus Himekawa comic, all in a green-and-gold hardback … Read more

GamebooksNovels1986–2002Group page Zelda gamebooks and novels 13 books · 1986–2002 From 1986 Zelda also came as books in which you choose the path: Japanese gamebooks, two American Nintendo Adventure Books, Scholastic’s pocket-sized Oracle adventures and a pair of Futabasha novels. Some let you play as Zelda decades before the games did. Books13: 4 English gamebooks, … Read more

American comic1990–19915 issues + 1Nintendo Comics System The Legend of Zelda Valiant Comics · 1990–1991 · 5 issues and a sixth Valiant’s NES-era comic book, in which a red-haired Link and a bow-wielding Zelda guard the Triforce of Wisdom from Ganon, and Link finds out he has a family, a homeland and a dark side … Read more

Manga4-koma1992–2003Japan only Zelda 4-koma anthologies Japanese gag-strip books · 1992–2003 Four panels, one joke: for a decade, Japanese publishers filled paperback after paperback with fan-style gag strips that poked fun at Link, Zelda, Ganon and every monster in Hyrule. Format4-koma: four-panel gag strips by many artists BooksAbout 26, in five series PublishersEnix, Futabasha, Kōbunsha, Keibunsha … Read more

Manga1986–199310 worksJapan only Early Japanese Zelda manga Ten books and one-shots · 1986–1993 Before Akira Himekawa, Zelda manga meant Famicom strategy comics, a talking parrot, a half-elf Link with a royal secret and a handful of magazine one-shots that were read once and never reprinted. Works10: six books or series, two magazine one-shots, a magazine … Read more