| IMAGE | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | STATUS |
| Fables #1-25: Bill Willingham script |
| Fables #1-10, 12-18: quite nice James Jean cover |
| Fables #1-5, 12-13: Lan Medina pencils |
| Fables #1-3, 5-10, 14-17: Steve Leialoha inks |
| Fables #1-5: unnamed storyline |
| Fables #1 | | 0 |
| Fables #1 [alternate cover] | cover by Alex Maleev | 0 |
| Fables #2 | | 0 |
| Fables #3 | | 0 |
| Fables #4, 12-13: Craig Hamilton inks |
| Fables #4 | | 0 |
| Fables #5 | | 0 |
| Fables: Legends in Exile | collects Fables #1-5; also includes a new short story written and illustrated by Willingham
[REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON.COM]
| 1 |
| Fables #6-10: "Animal Farm" storyline |
| Fables #6-10, 14-17: Mark Buckingham pencils |
| Fables #6 | | 0 |
| Fables #7 | | 0 |
| Fables #8 | | 0 |
| Fables #9 | Snow White breaks the revolution, with aid by the giants and a dragon, but then gets shot through the brain by Goldylocks | 0 |
| Fables #10 | Snow White recovers and makes up with Rose Red | 0 |
| Fables: Animal Farm | collects Fables #6-10; also includes a sketchbook of material by James Jean and Mark Buckingham; published in 2003
[REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON.COM]
| 1 |
| Fables #11 | tells an amusing story of Jack of the Tales and Death during the U.S. Civil War; Bryan Talbot art; Aron Wiesenfeld cover; published on Wednesday, 12 March 2003 | 0 |
| Fables #12-13: a two-part storyline |
sans titles and indicia
Larger Version Available
| Fables #12 | Tommy Sharp, a reporter, reveals that he knows about the fables' immortality and thinks them vampires | 0 |
sans indicia
Larger Version Available
| Fables #13 | Tommy Sharp is compelled to destroy his evidence, then is secretly killed by Bluebeard | 0 |
| Fables #14-17: "Storybook Love" storyline |
| Fables #14 | Goldilocks is revealed to be sleeping with Bluebeard, who enchants Snow White and Bigby Wolf, having them go away together so that Goldilocks can slaughter them | 0 |
sans titles or indicia
Larger Version Available
| Fables #15 | Bigby Wolf transforms into his wolf form and reveals to Snow White that he loves her | 0 |
| Fables #16 | Prince Charming slays Bluebeard; Bigby Wolf battles Goldilocks | 0 |
| Fables #17 | Bigby Wolf and Snow White kill Goldilocks; Prince Charming reveals to King Cole, the mayor, that Bluebeard's fortune will go to Fabletown; Prince Charming plans to get elected mayor; the panel layouts get more aggressive, particularly in the plane sequence | 0 |
sans titles or indicia
Larger Version Available
| Fables #18 | Linda Medley art; Bigby Wolf tells the tale of the Lilliputan males who fled the adversary into our world and of Thumbelina, leading to a quest for the barleycorn from which she grew | 0 |
| Fables: Storybook Love | collects Fables #11-18
[REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON.COM]
| 1 |
| Fables #19-25: no interior art or cover data entered |
| Fables #19 | | 0 |
| Fables #20 | | 0 |
sans indicia
Larger Version Available
| Fables #21 | | 0 |
| Fables #22 | | 0 |
| Fables #23 | | 0 |
| Fables #24 | | 0 |
| Fables #25 | | 0 |
In 2002, DC's Vertigo imprint launched a new ongoing comic book, entitled
Fables and written by Bill Willingham, known to Vertigo readers as a writer of
Sandman-related projects.
The series had a delightful premise: that fairy tale characters were real and living in New
York City, exiled from their lands. In order to construct his community of these characters,
Willingham had to negotiate the large body of fairy tales, finding links between them,
conflating one charming prince with the next. The result was a magnificent endeavor with good
narrative results. And Fables was a success -- by the standards of Vertigo sales. When
Vertigo launched Y: The Last Man two months later,
people were proclaiming a new, albeit somewhat muted, Vertigo renaissance.
