Characters are important to every story. Here is a list of the characters from this series and a look at their first appearances. Characters shown in flashbacks or photographs for their first appearance will be listed twice if they later make an appearance in person, unless that first appearance is in the same issue in which case the flashback or photograph will be ignored and their first actual appearance will be chosen. Likewise characters shown in issues or trades with multiple stories where the one or ones they appear in doesn't include any main universe Grimm Fairy Tales characters will be listed twice, first in that and then in the issue which contains their first appearance with main universe Grimm Fairy Tales characters, unless their first appearance with main universe Grimm Fairy Tales characters occurs in the same issue or trade, just in a later story in it. Crossover events are the exception for this. All pictures should be their very first appearance in the first issue they are in regardless of how closely it does or doesn't resemble them.
Characters listed on this page made their Grimm Fairy Tales comic debut in 2008.
January[]
Week of January 23rd
There were 13 new characters and 1 group of characters in this issue.
February[]
Week of February 20th
There were 6 new characters in this issue.
Week of February 27th
There were 8 new characters and 3 new groups of characters in this issue.
March[]
Week of March 5th
There were 3 new characters and 1 new group of characters in this issue.
Week of March 12th
There were no new characters in this issue.
Week of March 19th
There were 10 new characters and 2 new groups of characters in this issue.
There were 17 new characters, 3 groups of characters, and 2 posters with real people on them in this issue.
April[]
Week of April 16th
There were 3 new characters and 1 new group of characters in this issue.
Week of April 30th
There were no new characters in this issue.
May[]
Week of May 21st
Grimm Fairy Tales (TPB) 3
Bonus Story: Wicked Ways
There were 2 new character and 4 new groups of characters in the bonus story accompanying this collection of six previously published issues: Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast II, The Three Little Pigs, Little Miss Muffet, The Juniper Tree, and Three Billy Goats Gruff.
June[]
Week of June 4th
There were 8 new characters and 1 new group of characters in this issue.
July[]
Week of July 2nd
There were 9 new characters and 2 new groups of characters in this issue.
There were no new characters in this issue.
Week of July 23rd
There were 0 new characters in this issue. It is a collection of three previously published issues: Hansel & Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Pied Piper.
There were 1 new characters in this issue.
Week of July 30th
There were 8 new characters and 2 new group of characters in this issue.
There were 0 new characters in this issue. It is a collection of thirteen previously published issues: Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, The Robber Bridegroom, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Frog King, Bluebeard, The Pied Piper, and Story Time.
September[]
Week of September 10th
There were 7 new characters, 7 characters seen in the crossroads as "statues", and 1 new group of characters seen in the crossroads as "statues" in this issue.
October[]
Week of October 8th
Grimm Fairy Tales (TPB) 4
Bonus Story: The Lamp
There were 3 new characters in the bonus story accompanying this collection of six previously published issues: Rapunzel, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Snow Queen, Snow White & Rose Red: Part 1, and Snow White & Rose Red: Part 2.
There were 0 new characters in this issue. It is a collection of four previously published issues: The Piper 1, The Piper 2, The Piper 3, and The Piper 4.
Week of October 15th
There were 10 new characters, 2 new group of characters, and 1 new character seen only in a photograph in this issue.
Beauty & The Beast Collected Edition
There were 0 new characters in this issue. It is a collection of two previously published issues: Beauty and the Beast and Beauty and the Beast II.
November[]
Week of November 12th
There were 5 new characters in this issue.
December[]
Week of December 24th
There were 10 new characters and 1 new group of characters in this issue.
The End of the Line
(Mary Mary Quite Contrary) / (Humpty Dumpty) / (Hush Little Baby)
There were 13 new characters and 1 new group of characters in this issue.