Bill Willingham

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  • Bibliography:
    72 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1988
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Fables

1 - Legends in Exile (Dec-2002)
1.5 - Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland (Nov-2012)
2 - Animal Farm (Aug-2003)
2.5 - Peter and Max (Dec-2009)
3 - Storybook Love (Jun-2004)
4 - March of the Wooden Soldiers (Dec-2004)
5 - The Mean Seasons (Apr-2005)
6 - Homelands (Jan-2006)
7 - Arabian Nights (and Days) (Jul-2006)
8 - Wolves (Dec-2006)
9 - Sons of Empire (Jun-2007)
10 - The Good Prince (Jun-2008)
11 - War and Pieces (Nov-2008)
12 - The Dark Ages (Aug-2009)
13 - The Great Fables Crossover (Feb-2010)
14 - Witches (Dec-2010)
15 - Rose Red (Apr-2011)
16 - Super Team (Dec-2011)
17 - Inherit the Wind (Jul-2012)
18 - Cubs in Toyland (Jan-2013)
19 - Snow White (Dec-2013)
20 - Camelot (Sep-2014)
21 - Happily Ever After (May-2015)
22 - Farewell (Aug-2015)
Fables Encyclopedia (Nov-2013)

Fairest

1 - Wide Awake (Dec-2012)
Fairest In All the Land (Dec-2013)

Jack of Fables

1 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 1: The Nearly Great Escape (Mar-2007)
2 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts (Oct-2007)
3 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince (Jul-2008)
4 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 4: Americana (Dec-2008)
5 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 5: Turning Pages (Mar-2009)
6 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 6: The Books of War (Oct-2009)
7 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 7: The New Adventures of Jack and Jack (Jun-2010)
8 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade (Feb-2011)
9 - Jack of Fables, Vol. 9: The Ultimate Jack of Fables Story (Jul-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

DC Comics: Justice League

JLA: Salvation Run (Oct-2008)

DC Comics: JSA: Justice Society of America

Justice Society of America: Axis of Evil (Dec-2010)
Axis of Evil (Mar-2011)

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Legends in Exile (Dec-2002)
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Jun-2012)
Wide Awake (Dec-2012)
Snow White (Dec-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel

Wide Awake (Dec-2012)

Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen

Homelands (Jan-2006)

Book List in Order: 72 titles

  • Elementals: The Natural Order

    This is the saga of four ordinary people who lose their lives then return from the grave as super-heroes. Monolith, Fathom, Morningstar, and Vortex gain command of the earth, water fire and air respectively and are forced to use those abilities in a ...

  • Down the Mysterly River

    Max “the Wolf” is a top notch Boy Scout, an expert at orienteering and a master of being prepared. So it is a little odd that he suddenly finds himself, with no recollection of his immediate past, lost in an unfamiliar wood. Even odder still, he ...

  • The Monster Maker

  • Legends in Exile

    Fables - 1
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical ch...

  • Proposition Player

    Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: DC Comics Written by Bill Willingham; ART by Willingham. Paul Guinan and Ron Randall; COVER by Willingham Written by acclaimed FABLES creator Bill Willingham When a professional Vegas poker player collects vouc...

  • Animal Farm

    Fables - 2

    Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm -- and a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war tha...

  • Sandman Presents: Taller Tales

  • Storybook Love

    Fables - 3

    WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS In the Fables' world, there isn't a lot of happily-ever-after to go around. As refugees from the lands of make-believe, the Fables have been driven from their storybook realms and forced to blend in with our gritty...

  • Unmasked!



  • March of the Wooden Soldiers

    Fables - 4

    Bill Willingham's runaway hit series FABLES continues its success in this fourth volume, which collects issues #19-21 and #23-27 (issue #22 will appear in a future collection) and features the rise of a new threat to Fabletown. When Little Red Riding...

  • The Mean Seasons

    Fables - 5

    WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS This volume features two tales of Bigby�s exploits during World War II as well as �The Year After,� which follows the aftermath of the Adversary�s attempt to conquer Fabletown-including the birth of Snow White...

  • Sandman Presents: Thessaly - Witch for Hire

  • Robin/Batgirl: Fresh Blood

  • Homelands

    Fables - 6
    Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen

    WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS Having beaten back the Adversary's first advance into their world, the residents of Fabletown must now prepare themselves for the full-scale war that is sure to follow. For one particular Fable, this meansskipping tow...

  • Arabian Nights (and Days)

    Fables - 7

    WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS FABLES: ARABIAN NIGHTS (AND DAYS) opens a new front in the struggle between the Fables and the Adversary as the worlds of the Arabian Fables are invaded�leading to an unprecedented diplomatic mission to Fabletownand...

  • Infinite Crisis Companion

    INFINITE CRISIS COMPANION TP Written by Bill Willingham, Dave Gibbons, Greg Rucka and Gail Simone Art by Justiniano, Ivan Reis, Jesus Saiz, Dale Eaglesham and others Cover by Various A new volume presenting the tales that led into and out of INFINITE...

  • Wolves

    Fables - 8

    The community of Fables living undercover in our midst has endured plenty of suffering at the hands of their longtime antagonist, the Adversary. Now it’s time to return the favor and put the would-be conqueror on notice that the cost of subjugating...

  • Shadowpact: The Pentacle Plot

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 1: The Nearly Great Escape

    Jack of Fables - 1

    The first five issues of the popular FABLES spinoff series are collected in this amazing new volume! Last seen hitchhiking from Hollywood, Jack's now a wayward Fable in the heartland of America. His extreme road stories and encounters with other noto...



  • Sons of Empire

    Fables - 9

    The free Fables living in the mundane world have struck a decisive blow against the Adversary, destroying one of his most valuable assets at the very heart of his empire -- and setting the stage for an all-out world between the worlds in the process....

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts

    Jack of Fables - 2

    In this volume collecting issues #6-11, Jack reveals the secret of his former relationship with the illustrious Snow Queen--when he took her powers and became known as Jack Frost. And in present times, he lands in Las Vegas and meets his lovely new b...

  • Shadowpact, Volume 2: Cursed

  • The Good Prince

    Fables - 10

    With war looming between the forces of the Adversary and the free Fables living in the mundane world, everything now depends on a humble janitor known as Flycatcher. Released from centuries of trauma-induced amnesia, Prince Ambrose (as he was known i...

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince

    Jack of Fables - 3

    Collecting JACK OF FABLES #12-16! Jack's now a wayward Fable in the heartland of America. Follow his extreme road stories as he reveals the secret of his former relationship with the illustrious Snow Queen (when he took her powers and became known as...

  • JLA: Salvation Run

    DC Comics: Justice League

    One distant prison planet. Forty metahuman psychopaths. Some thought banishing these villains -- Flash's Rogues, Metallo, Vandal Savage, Killer Croc, the rest of the worst -- would stem the recent violence on Earth. But Luthor seeks escape. And even ...

  • War and Pieces

    Fables - 11

    WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS The final battle between the free Fables of the mundane world and the Empire occupying their former Homelands is about to begin, and the scrappy storybook heroes have already managed to even the oddsconsiderably. With...

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 4: Americana

    Jack of Fables - 4

    Jack hits the road in seach of a lost city of gold in this new collection featuring issues #17-21. Aided by his sidekicks Paul Bunyan, Humpty Dumpty, Gary the pathetic fallacy and the mysterious Hillary Page, Jack's in for the adventure of a lifetime...

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 5: Turning Pages

    Jack of Fables - 5

    Get ready for Jack's adventures out West, as Smiling Jack Candle crosses paths with a grim sheriff from back East who carries no gun. Collecting issues #22-27 of the series Publishers Weekly says 'any sophisticated comics fan will enjoy'....

  • The Dark Ages

    Fables - 12

    Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no...



  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 6: The Books of War

    Jack of Fables - 6

    The Siege of the Golden Boughs occurs in which Bookburner's army attacks Revise's compound. Jack returns not as a prisoner but as its commander in chief. A further explanation of the Literals, and their extended family of characters who symbolize lit...

  • Peter and Max

    Fables - 2.5

    Set in the imaginative realm of the award-winning comic book series FABLES, this book takes place long ago, in the deepest dark of The Black Forest. Two brothers -- Peter Piper and his older brother Max -- encounter ominous forces that change them bo...

  • The Great Fables Crossover

    Fables - 13

    As the free Fables struggle to regroup following the destruction of their New York City stronghold, they are suddenly faced with a new menace -- one who threatens not only their adopted planet, but all of reality itself! Against such terrible pow...

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 7: The New Adventures of Jack and Jack

    Jack of Fables - 7

    Jack Frost, son of Jack of Fables, has left our world and has decided to make his way to the Imperial Homeworld, where his mother is still trapped under a city of thorns. Along the way he will encounter many fantasy monsters, brigands and troops of r...

  • Justice Society of America: Axis of Evil

    DC Comics: JSA: Justice Society of America

    A new era begins for the Justice Society of America as writer Bill Willingham (FABLES) takes over the solo writing chores on the series with artist Jesus Merino (SUPERMAN ANNUAL). After a rift in the team literally split the roster apart, the Justice...

  • Angel: The Crown Prince Syndrome

    "Now that Angel''s back in charge, he struggles to keep his relationship with Connor from getting messy and discovers weird new things about Illyria as she tries to woo the prodigal son. Meanwhile, Spike gets into the prophecy business, Laura Kay Wea...

  • Witches

    Fables - 14

    In the wreckage that was once Fabletown, the sinister Mister Dark is building a web of fear and anger that threatens to ensnare any Fable who strays too close. Cut off from the Woodland building’s business office and its trove of magical weapons, t...

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade

    Jack of Fables - 8

    With Jack Horner, former star of JACK OF FABLES, permanently transformed into a dragon, Vertigo reboots the series with a new hero, Jack Frost. The world in which this story takes place is the world in which Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers lived, onlyth...

  • Axis of Evil

    DC Comics: JSA: Justice Society of America

    It's all-out war as the leaner, meaner Justice Society of America confront another intruder in their midst! But this time it's bad news for their enemy, as he's facing a team that has learned from its past mistakes! The new incarnation of the Justice...

  • The Fulminate Blade

    The world in which this story takes place is the world in which Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers lived, only thousands of years later. All that remains is superstition and feudalism and all of the old technology is regarded as magic now. Jack seeks the m...



  • Rose Red

    Fables - 15

    Rose Red, sister of Snow White, has finally hit rock bottom. Does she stay there, or is it time to start the long, tortuous climb back up? The Farm is in chaos, as many factions compete to fill the void of her missing leadership. And there’s a big ...

  • Warriors Three: Dog Day Afternoon

    The town of Ash Valley, Washington is massacred overnight, the carefully positioned bodies perplexing local law enforcement. But the gruesome scene is familiar to Asgardians, and there can...

  • Jack of Fables, Vol. 9: The Ultimate Jack of Fables Story

    Jack of Fables - 9

    Jack Frost seeks to kill a dragon, unaware that it's his own father. Jack Frost has just set upon the greatest quest in a long and distinguished career of great quests: To kill a dragon. Of course, he is not aware that the dragon in question is in fa...

  • The End

    Jack Frost has just set upon the greatest quest in a long and distinguished career, to kill a dragon. He is not aware that the dragon in question is in fact his own father. Meanwhile the Page Sisters find a new purpose in life: restoring the Great Li...

  • Angel: The End

    • This is the end, beautiful friend! After years of fighting to protect his friends and the citizens of Los Angeles from the demonic hordes which populate this and other dimensions, Angel must say goodbye.
    • Elaborate plans and selfles...

  • Bad Doings and Big Ideas: A Bill Willingham Deluxe Edition

    Collecting dark tales of the fantastic by FABLES creator Bill Willingham!

    She’s one of the Sandman’s former lovers and a woman feared by gods. She is Thessaly, the fan-favorite character from THE SANDMAN: A GAME OF YOU, and the last of the dead...

  • A Flight of Angels

    Deep in the woods outside of a magical kingdom, a strange group of faeries and forest creatures discover a nearly dead angel, bleeding and unconscious with a sword by his side. They call a tribunal to decide his fate, each telling stories that delve ...

  • Super Team

    Fables - 16

    Now why oh why in this mixed-up world would we saddle an important series that has never had anything to do with superheroes with a title like "Super Team"? And why has that snotty little Pinocchio suddenly got it into his head that he needs to desig...

  • Super Group

    Now why oh why in this mixed-up world would we saddle an important series that has never had anything to do with Super Heroes with a title like "Super Team"? And why has that snotty little Pinocchio suddenly got it into his head that he needs to desi...

  • Inherit the Wind

    Fables - 17

    The tights and capes have been stored away forever, but it remains to be seen if Haven and its refugee inhabitants have survived the onslaught of. Where do the Fables go from here? Bigby and Snow White's cubs try to move forward after learning a hard...



  • Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland

    Fables - 1.5

    A #1 New York Times Best Seller! At long last! The long-awaited original FABLES: WEREWOLVES OF THE HEARTLAND graphic novel is here! Bigby Wolf embarks on a quest through the American Heartland to find a new location for Fabletown, a secret society of...

  • Wide Awake

    Fairest - 1
    Fairytale Retellings: Rapunzel
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator Bill Willingham presents a new series starring the beautiful, deadly ladies from his hit series FABLES. Balancing horror, humor and adventure in the FABLES tradition, FAIREST explores the secret histo...

  • Cubs in Toyland

    Fables - 18

    For years, Snow White and Bigby Wolf's cubs have grown up knowing that one of them was destined for a much greater, more grave role amongst the Fables community. But no one knew how soon it would come. When Snow and Bigby's cub Therese receives a...

  • Fables Encyclopedia

    Fables

    The histories behind the fairy tale characters in New York Times best-selling author Bill Willingham's series FABLES are uncovered here in the FABLES ENCYCLOPEDIA. Exhaustively researched by author Jess Nevins, these annotations fill in details haili...

  • Fairest In All the Land

    Fairest

    In the spirit of FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL and FABLES: WEREWOLVES OF THE HEARTLAND comes the first ever original graphic novel from the pages of #1 New York Times bestselling writer Bill Willingham's FAIREST. FAIREST has explored the secret...

  • Snow White

    Fables - 19
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    With Castle Dark now back in the hands of the Fables, mysteries both young and old begin to challenge the residents of Fabletown. Bigsby and Stinky set off from Fabletown in Rose Red's blood-fueled sports car to track down the two abducted cubs. Un...

  • Camelot

    Fables - 20

    Rose Red finally and formally takes on the mantle of Paladin of Hope to heroically rally the Fables in the tragic aftermath of "Snow White." A new dark age calls for a new Round Table, with modern knights willing to take on a sacred quest to reassemb...

  • Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure

    • A mysterious woman named Magna Spadarossa searches the many kingdoms of her Steampunk world to find her missing sister, Sonja... but she’s pursued by strange and dastardly villains. Thankfully, each glamorous airship, clockwork city, and p...

  • Happily Ever After

    Fables - 21

    In the aftermath of Bigby Wolf’s destruction, a shift in the Fables’ underlying power structure threatens to split their community into two warring factions - one led by Snow White, the other by her sister Rose Red. Accelerating this process are ...

  • Farewell

    Fables - 22

    New York Times Best-selling author Bill Willingham delivers the end to his legendary series in Fables Volume 22. The Eisner Award-winning series sees the conclusion of the beloved stories of Bigby Wolf, Rose Red, Boy Blue, Bell, Pinnochio and countle...

  • Guardians Team-up Vol. 2

  • Guardians Team-Up Vol. 2: Unlikely Story

    Collects Guardians Team-Up #6-10, Deadpool Team-Up #883. The Guardians continue their charm offensive across the Marvel Universe! Nightcrawler and Gamora lock swords in an interplanetary blade-fighting competition ó but does the swashbuckling X-Man ...

  • Jack of Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One

    Jack lands in Las Vegas and meets his lovely new bride, a directionless heiress. Could it possibly be "happily ever after" at last? Then, Jack's a wayward Fable in the heartland of America! Follow his extreme road stories as he reveals the secret of...

  • Jack of Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book Two

    The self-proclaimed �World�s Greatest Fable� is finally given the five-star treatment he so richly deserves in Jack of Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book Two! Written by Fables creator Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges, this second of three prod...

  • The Greatest Adventure

    Heroes and heroines " along with the villains - from the entire Edgar Rice Burroughs library stand together! Tarzan, Jane Clayton and Meriem Clayton, John Carter and Dejah Thoris, Korak The Killer, Jason Gridley, Billy Byrne, Bridge, The Oskaloosa ...

  • Jack of Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book Three

    After leaving the confines of Fabletown for the streets of Hollywood, the incomparable Jack Horner found fame and fortune by cashing in on his own legend-only to have it all taken away by the enforcers of Fabletown's laws. Now, stripped of his wealth...

  • HAMMER of the GODS

    Tom O'Harrow is the bastard son of Queen Mab of the Unseelie Court and True Thomas of Earth. For most of his 900 years he's been banished to our world, working as a mercenary-for-hire (provided your cause isn't completely evil). When he comes into po...

  • Just Another Ranker

    Johnny Underwood longed for a life of adventure, and he got his wish, beyond his wildest dreams. He was recruited into a modern mercenary rifle company that plied their martial trade in a world of warrior-zealot elves, giants, sorcerers, and dragons....

  • Robin: Unmasked

    Critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning writer Bill Willingham (FABLES) has taken over the life of Tim Drake, Robin--and the Boy Wonder''s life has been a roller-coaster ride ever since!

    ROBIN: UNMASKED collects issues #121-125, featuring p...

  • Fables Compendium Three

    Explore Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series Fables to the very end in this third and final compendium volume!After the great War - the great crossover! This compendium captures all the branching fables that intersect our heroes' ...

  • Fables Compendium Four

    Explore Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series Fables to the very end in this final compendium volume!With Castle Dark now back in the hands of the Fables, mysteries both young and old begin to challenge the residents of Fabletown. ...

  • Batman Vs. Bigby! A Wolf In Gotham

    Somebody�s scouring Gotham for a very powerful book-and they�re covering their tracks with acts of horrific book-related terrorism. That book�s power flows from Fabletown�which means it�s fallen to Bigby Wolf to cross the dimensional divide...

  • Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book Sixteen

    The dust has barely settled from the climactic battle between Totenkinder and Cinderella—and everything is far from happily ever after.A legendary new adversary has arrived, and he plans to get even with Geppetto for the mess that has been made...

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Bill Willingham has published 72 books.

The next book by Bill Willingham, Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book Sixteen, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Bill Willingham, Elementals: The Natural Order, was published in November 1988.

Yes. Bill Willingham has 3 series.
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