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Grimms Fairy Tales Comics FIRST SERIES #1-48 w/ RED RIDING HOOD #1. Estate Sale!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm_Fairy_Tales_(comics)

Included in this auction are the original 48 Grimm Fairy Tales comics. A dark fantasy comic book series by Zenescope Entertainment that presents classic fairy tales, albeit with modern twists or expanded plots. It began publication in June 2005.

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#1	Little Red Riding Hood		Joe Tyler and Ralph Tedesco	Joe Dodd	Justin Holman	Lisa Lubera

#2	Cinderella

#3	Hansel and Gretel

#4	Rumpelstiltskin

#5	Sleeping Beauty

#6	The Robber Bridegroom

#7	Snow White

#8	Jack and the Beanstalk

#9	Goldilocks and the Three Bears

#10	The Frog King

#11	Bluebeard

#12	The Pied Piper of Hamelin

#13–14: Beauty and the Beast

#15: The Three Little Pigs

#16: Little Miss Muffet

#17: The Juniper Tree

#18: Three Billy Goats Gruff

#19: Rapunzel

#20: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

#21: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

#22: The Snow Queen

#23–24: Snow White and Rose Red

#25–26: The Little Mermaid

#27: Three Blind Mice

#28: The Ugly Duckling

#29: King Midas

#30: Rip Van Winkle

#31–32: Pinocchio

#33: Three Snake Leaves

#34: Puss In Boots

#35: Dorian Gray

#36: The Ugly Duckling II

#37: Little Miss Muffet II

#38: The Lion and the Mouse

#39: The Scorpion and the Frog

#40: The Goose and the Golden Egg

#41: Dante's Inferno [Prelude]

#42: Baba Yaga

#43: The Last Unicorn

#44: The Devil's Brother

#45: Cinderella [Revisited]

#46: Godfather Death

#47: The Devil's Gambit

#48: The Good Witch

SINGLE STORY EXAMPLE DESCRIPTIONS:

Little Red Riding Hood #1

A high school girl is conflicted about her boyfriend, who is frustrated with her reluctance to "go all the way" (i.e., have sex). After he leaves, she finds a book of fairy tales on her bed and falls asleep, dreaming that she is "Red", walking to her grandmother's house through the woods. She arrives to find her grandmother savagely mauled. Jacob, a woodcutter with tender feelings for her, appears and tells her to leave with him immediately. Believing him the killer, Red stabs him with a machete, but is then attacked by the werewolf that killed her grandmother. Before it can attack her, the wounded Jacob kills it with an axe. The wolf transforms back into Red's noble suitor, Samuel, who confesses that he let his carnal desire for her get the better of him.
The girl wakes up, resolved to break up with her over-amorous boyfriend. She believes that the story was a dream, but is shocked to see scratches on her face and fallen leaves on her bed.

Cinderella #2

A bookish young college girl is chased out of a sorority house by the derisive sisters. She wanders into Sela's mythology class, and dreams that she is the protagonist of Cinderella. After her wicked stepmother and stepsisters lock her in the dark cellar as punishment, she is visited by a female demon, who offers her everything she could wish for, in exchange for her soul. Cinderella goes to the Prince's ball and wins his heart, but has to return home before midnight, leaving her glass slipper behind. Hearing that the Prince is searching the land for his true love, Cinderella's family eagerly prepares to receive him, but her stepsisters are attacked by a flock of ravens outside their home. In terror, the stepmother runs inside and locks the door, trapping her daughters outside. She then falls into the cellar, and Cinderella locks her in to starve to death. The next morning, Cinderella meets the Prince, carefully steering his attention away from her stepsisters' desiccated corpses in the back yard, and avoiding inviting him inside the house where he might hear her stepmother's cries for help.
Reawakening, the coed tells Sela how much she enjoyed the lecture, and Sela tells her that everything she wants could be hers, "for the right price".

Robber Bridegroom #6

A college girl is outraged to find her boyfriend embracing her sister. The two women begin fighting in a deserted playground, before Sela appears with her book. In an extended dream, two sisters fall in love with the same dashing prince, but after he proposes to the younger sister, the elder lures her to a mountaintop and pushes her off a cliff. The older sister takes her place as the prince's fiancée. On their wedding night, she enters his castle and sits down to dinner, only to see that the "prince" and all his servants are cannibalistic ghouls, who devour her alive, declaring her just as tasty as her sister would have been.
Waking up, the sisters reconcile, agreeing that they are family and it would be foolish to let a man come between them.

Summary

Each issue of Grimm Fairy Tales has two parts: a frame story and a fairy tale. The frame story revolves around Dr. Sela Mathers, a Professor of Literature with the supernatural ability to help people to avoid bad life decisions by subjecting them to visions, in which they see themselves as the protagonists of allegorical fairy tales. As the series progresses, she struggles with the fact that several people ignore her lessons and ruin their lives anyway, and begins using her ability to dispense justice instead. Sela's nemesis is Belinda, who has the same ability as Sela but uses it for evil.

The other portion of the story is a twisted version of a classic fairy tale. The fairy tales are often violent and usually end in depressing ways, warning the readers to change their lives or suffer a similar (or sometimes worse) fate.

It is later revealed that Belinda is working for the Dark One, a Satan-like demon who is seeking to conquer not only Earth but four other worlds which the fairy tales come from. The worlds include Wonderland, Oz, Neverland, and Myst. The series gradually begins to revolve around Sela herself, as she discovers that she has become a major player in an ancient war between the Dark Horde, led by the Dark One and his allies, and the Guardians, leaders of the worlds the Dark One seeks to conquer. Already Wonderland and Neverland have fallen and are now ruled by the Dark One's allies, the monstrous Jabberwocky and the soul-devouring immortal Pan, respectively.

After Volume 15 concluded, a new Zenescope comic event, "The Age of Darkness", began. It spans in every comic related to the Grimm Fairy Tales series. There are major tie-ins and things especially related to major worlds in Grimm Fairy Tales. These worlds are Oz, Myst, Neverland, Wonderland, and Earth. The event happened in 2013–14 heading up to the 100th issue of Grimm Fairy Tales.

After the milestone issue, issues #101–125 are the "Arcane Acres" storyline.