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The Swamp Palace is also featured in the A Link to the Past comic by Shotaro Ishinomori. When Link and Epheremelda head out to the palace, they discover that the area is completely dried up.[4] Link calls to Sahasrahla via the Comm-Fork for help and asks him to go to the Light World location of the Swamp Palace,[5] where Sahasrahla and his Grandson accompanying him find a fountain surrounded by statues.[6] The boy, able to see Link in the water of the fountain, warns Link of the monsters behind him,[7] where a Hinox and a Taros shut the door to trap the young hero inside the palace.[8] As the boy watches the battle between Link and the foes, he accidentally activates the statues that cause water to pour into the fountain. This leads to the Swamp Palace in the Dark World getting flooded, washing away the monsters and Link.
The Hinox and Taros end up sinking as they struggle with each other,[9] while Link's Master Sword is dragging him below the surface.[10] Epheremelda tells Link to stay afloat, for the water is almost up to an opening that the fairy had found earlier on.[11] The young hero is then rushed into a new chamber, where he finds the second maiden imprisoned in her crystal. As Link makes his way to the maiden, a large, tentacled monster attacks him. He thrusts himself with the Master Sword into the monster and defeats the creature, which spits out Link from inside and gives him a chance to destroy the floating crystal where the maiden is. The maiden, now freed, thanks Link and tells him that Zelda is imprisoned in Turtle Rock, found at the end of the world, then vanishes.[12]
