Comics include comic books, graphic novels, webcomics, and illustrated texts. Text-image communication gives readers a unique multimodal experience. This unique combination of visual and textual features has educators and academics interested in comic-based reading materials' instructional potential. Specifically, this study focused on the comic-based reading materials as an intervention for reading comprehension difficulties of grade eight junior high school students regarding their reading comprehension level results during the conduct of Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI): Utilizing the quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design, this study determined the effectiveness of comic-based reading materials as an intervention for reading comprehension difficulties. Anchored to Schema Theory to grasp the cognitive framework that help learners to organize information from the memories and experiences using schemas to interpret new information and how prior knowledge and experiences influence perception, memory, and cognition within 44 selected students employing complete enumeration. The results showed that there are significant differences in the performance in English 8 of students between the pretest and posttest scores. Moreover, the comic-based reading materials were effective and c helpful for students to grasp challenging concepts. Hence, comic-based reading materials are beneficial in comprehending the contents of text, helping students improve their ideas, and interest in reading.