DC Giveaway for FABLES #6, Anthology Due

FABLES 1-6 coming under one cover in December

By Rob Allstetter     September 25, 2002

DC Comics continues to push its new Vertigo series FABLES, announcing a free 50 percent overship of FABLES #6 to retailers and a new trade paperback.
FABLES #6, scheduled for release on Oct. 9, is the beginning of the new five-part story arc "Animal Farm," featuring pencils by Mark Buckingham. Buckingham joins regular writer and series creator Bill Willingham, inker Steve Leialoha and cover painter James Jean for this story.
"With all the great critical buzz and positive word of mouth out there right now, reader interest in Fables is definitely on the upswing," said Vince Letterio, DC's Manager - Direct Sales. "The overship will give retailers the opportunity to introduce more of their customers to the series. "
FABLES: LEGENDS IN EXILE is a 128-page trade paperback that collects FABLES #1-5, the first four of which are sold out at DC, and arrives on Dec. 11. These issues are written by Willingham, with art by Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton, and the original series covers by James Jean and Alex Maleev. This collection also includes a new FABLES prose story by Willingham - with picture book-style illustrations also by Willingham - and a new, painted cover by James Jean.

"I'm far too happy with the extra effort the folks at DC/Vertigo are making to support FABLES, from promotions to the fast turnaround on the first trade to the overship on issue #6," Willingham said. "They're clearly going above and beyond the usual efforts. Of course there's still room for improvement - they still won't lend me the company jet, even though I promised to promote the book wherever I make them fly me. "