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Traveling in arabia as an ambassador from the exiled fables community, snow white is captured by the local sultan who wants to marry her and then kill her. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones. Publication date 2006 topics fictitious characters comic books, strips, etc publisher. Willingham, bill, bolland, brian, jean, james, vess, charles. Fables was launched in july 2002 and concluded in july 2015. Snow white tells him a story every night to keep him from beheading her. Bill willingham has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than 20 years. This volume, set in the early days of fabletown, long before the fables series began, featuring sequences illustrated by charles vess, brian bolland, john bolton, michael wm.
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