Fables

1-5, A Wolf in the Fold (prose story)
The introduction to Fabletown. Sheriff Bigby Wolf investigates the apparent murder of Rose Red.

6-10
A revolt occurs on the Farm, a place for non-human Fables.

11-18
A tale set during the American Civil War in which Jack Horner tries to cheat Death.
A mundane journalist finds out about the Fables and they have to decide how to react.
Bluebeard hatches a plot against Bigby and Snow, and the homicidal Goldilocks targets the pair.
Prince Charming decides to run for Fabletown Mayor.
Bigby tells Flycatcher the story of a Smalltown tradition.

19-21, 23-27, The Last Castle (one-shot)
Prince Charming runs for Mayor of Fabletown while the community deals with the escape from the Homelands by Red Riding Hood. The Adversary sends his first agents into Fabletown.

22, 28-33
The secret behind Cinderella's apparently frivolous lifestyle is revealed.
Bigby's adventures during World War II.
Snow gives birth and realizes she must relocate to the Farm. Snow encounters Bigby's estranged father, the North Wind. Bigby exiles himself. This story arc is retitled "The Mean Seasons" in the Trade Paperback of the same name.

34-41
Jack goes to Hollywood and sets up a film studio. Spins off into Jack of Fables.
Boy Blue to the Homelands with the aim of assassinating the Adversary and learns the Adversary's identity.
What has been going on in Fabletown during Blue's adventures.

42-47
A delegation of Arabian Fables led by Sinbad visits Fabletown to discuss an alliance against the Adversary.
A side story of the seemingly ill-fated love of Rodney and June, two members of the Adversary's forces.

48-51
Mowgli searches for the missing Bigby and brings him a message from Fabletown.
Bigby returns and delivers a warning to the Adversary.
Cinderella continues her mission in the Cloud Kingdom, but must be turned into a mouse and enlist the aid of Smalltown's resident medic in order to treat a sick giant king.

52-59
The Adversary calls a conference of the Imperial elite to decide what to do about Fabletown. Pinocchio has to face up to his divided loyalties.
Santa Claus' existence as a Fable is addressed.
Bigby decides that the time has come to square things with his father, the North Wind. On a hunt, his children encounter Bigby's siblings, who have become more beasts than men.
Readers were invited to participate in a contest by asking Willingham about unresolved events in the series. Here, they are answered in a series of 1 to 4 page short stories.

60-69
Flycatcher, who has never fully accepted the death of his wife, must face up to his past.
Preparation for war begins at the Farm and the birthday of Bigby's children.

70-75
Boy Blue and Rose Red discuss their relationship. Flycatcher's offer is brought to the Farm. Plans are made to begin the war.
Cinderella repays her debt to Frau Totenkinder by going on a mission down South.
Fabletown and the Empire go to war.

76-82
Fabletown's newest member is given a tour, much to the displeasure of the other residents.
A new era begins as the residents of Fabletown face the aftermath of war. New challenges arise at home and in a distant land a dark power is awakened.
An epilogue to "The Dark Ages".

83-85, Jack of Fables 33-35, The Literals 1-3
Bigby and Beast get into a violent fight demonstrating the influence of dark powers present. Rose Red sinks deeper into depression. Stinky starts a religion foretelling Boy Blue's heroic return, which a returning Jack Horner takes advantage of before encountering his son, the new Jack Frost. The issues are more focused on Jack than on the other Fables.

86-93
Mister Dark relates how he came to be trapped in a magical box by a group of imperial warlocks, and the rise of their leader Dunster Happ.
The leaders and witches of Fabletown discuss how to defeat Mister Dark. Meanwhile Bufkin finds himself trapped in the lost business office with Baba Yaga and many other monsters.
A story set in Haven, where the local baseball game leads to a murder.

94-100, Pinocchio's Army (prose story)
The Farm is in chaos, as various factions vie for control. To restore order, Rose Red must face her greatest foe - herself.
Mr. Dark uses his power to construct a new citadel in New York City.
The final confrontation between Frau Totenkinder and Mister Dark.

101-107
Bufkin climbs the Business Office's tree and finds himself in Ev (a neighbor to the Land of Oz).
Ozma puts together a team of Fables to mimic the superheroics of comic books.
The fate of the Empire's thorn-covered capital.

108-113
The North Wind's successor is chosen among his grandchildren. In Ev, Bufkin forms a resistance movement in order to overthrow the evil Nome King.
A Fables take on A Christmas Carol, focusing on Rose Red.
A collection of short, short Fables stories.

114-123
Snow and Bigby's cub Therese is taken to a bleak, mysterious land inhabited by discarded toys, inciting a series of soul-crushing events.
A look at how fate works in the Fable universe.

114-123 back-up stories, 124-129
Bufkin and Lily's heroic (mis)adventures in Oz come to their grand finale.
A man from Snow White's past claims her as his legal wife.

130-140
The daughter of Rodney and June explores Castle Black.
A new dark age calls for a new Round Table, with modern knights willing to take on a sacred quest to reassemble the shattered pieces of Fabletown.
Bigby wanders a heaven resembling the woods he used to hunt in, meeting long-lost friend.
Geppetto is up to his naughty tricks in a story filling in the gaps of an old Fabletown event.
Peter Piper, Joe Shepherd, Puss in Boots and Briar Rose try to free a tiny Fable Homeland.

141-149
Good knight vs. bad knight. King Arthur vs. Morgan le Fay. Rose Red vs. Snow White. The two sisters are caught up in the roles Camelot has set for them, and now they’re ready for battle.

150
Once Upon a Time... for the very last time.

Prequel to Fables
Based on the One Thousand and One Nights, it tells a story from a time early in Fabletown's history when Snow White was sent as an emissary to the Arabian Fables. The Sultan's Vizier secretly presents Snow to Sultan as his next wife in order to delay his daughter Scheherazade from suffering the same fate. Snow must amuse the Sultan with a new story every night to prevent him from executing her at dawn, as he has done with all his former wives.

An illustrated novel centering on Peter Piper, his wife Bo Peep and his brother Max, who will later grow up to be the Pied Piper.

1-7
Follows the misadventures of Briar Rose and the Snow Queen after the events of Fables #107, in which Briar was stolen away by the goblin army.
Beauty and Beast star in their own mid-century modern detective story set in the smoky clubs and dive bars of 1940s Los Angeles.

8-14
A prequel to the Fables story arc "Legends in Exile". Rapunzel must travel from Fabletown to Tokyo and resolve a mystery from her troubled past.
Princess Alder tells her tales of woe to Reynard the Fox.

Someone is killing the women of Fabletown, and Cinderella has only seven days to discover the identity of the murderer.

15-20
When Nalayani's village is attacked, she is sent on a quest that will transform all of Fables forever.

21-26
After an assassination attempt on Snow White, Cinderella is called into service to unravel an age-old conspiracy dating back to that fateful midnight ball.

27-32
Refugees from Fabletown have returned to New York's Castle Dark, and Reynard, now able to shapeshift from fox to man, travels the mundane world to regale the animals with tales of his exploits.