Kermit was a full-color monthly publication for the German language countries, billed as "Das witzige Kindermagazin" ("the funny children's magazine"). Named after Kermit the Frog, the publication was launched in 1989 under distribution of Bastei-Verlag, a publisher responsible for numerous other German language translations of Muppet, Fraggle, and Muppet Babies books and comics available on the German, Austrian and Swiss markets throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.