Fables: No More Happily Ever After (DC Compact Comics Edition)

Description

Fables: No More Happily Ever After is the first volume of Bill Willingham's award-winning series, now released in the compact DC Compact Comics format.

Imagine if all the characters from the world's most famous fairy tales were real and lived among us – with all their powers. How do they fare in our everyday, non-magical reality?

Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Goldilocks, Little Boy Blue, and many other heroes from old fairy tales are exiles living in a magically disguised neighborhood of New York City – Fabletown.

This is not a children's retelling of fairy tales. Willingham transforms the old fairy tale canon into an adult story about politics, exile, murder, and what happens after "happily ever after" no longer applies.

This modern comic classic is being released for the first time in a compact format and at an affordable price. The volume collects Fables #1–10.

Why read it?

• One of the most famous and most Eisner Award-winning series in comic book history.
• DC Compact Comics format – convenient book size and significantly lower price than regular volumes.
• Includes #1–10 in one 248-page volume – a complete entry into the series.
• Fairy tale characters as political exiles in New York – an original idea with no true equivalent to this day.
• The first storyline is a detective story – also functions as a standalone crime narrative.
• Script by Bill Willingham, art by Mark Buckingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha.
• An excellent choice for those who read fantasy literature but haven't started comics yet.
• The series inspired the game The Wolf Among Us (Telltale Games).

About the Creators

• Script: Bill Willingham
• Art: Mark Buckingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and others
• Cover: Mark Buckingham
• Publisher: DC Comics

Publication

• Title: Fables: No More Happily Ever After (DC Compact Comics Edition)
• Series: Fables
• Collects: Fables #1–10
• Format: DC Compact Comics – Trade Paperback (softcover)
• Release Date: 2026-09-01
• Publisher: DC Comics

Specifications

• Page Count: 248
• Format: Compact Edition (TP)
• Binding: Softcover
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5" (compact)
• Age Rating: M – Mature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781799509110

Fables: No More Happily Ever After (DC Compact Comics Edition) – a 248-page volume where fairy tale heroes live as exiles in New York. The first 10 issues in a compact format and at a lower price – the best way to start the series.