Thread:Tupka217/@comment-38298609-20191017204117/@comment-38298609-20191018123632

I didn't find any mention in the movie. As far as I understand, Gaiman owns the copyright to the text. Most likely the movie does not apply to DC or Avon.

"Stardust was first published as a serial, in a format that resembled four issues of a square bound comic book, by the comic book publisher DC, which had a long history of publishing fantastic and best-selling graphic novels and comic books by Neil Gaiman. But Stardust was a novel in text form, what librarians like to call a chapter book, sumptuously illustrated by Charles Vess. Stardust was later collected into several book editions, including the Vess illustrations, again published by DC. Gaiman retained all the rights to his writing, while DC owned the Vess artwork. So Gaiman was able to sell the rights for text-only editions of Stardust, the first of which was published by an imprint known as Spike, part of Avon Books. These text-only editions differ little from the DC texts."