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  Caption Book Cover
  Format 96 pages, full color
  Publisher Dark Horse Comics
  Date July 1, 2002
  Issues ''Tales of the Slayers TPB'', and ''ToS: Broken Bottle of Djinn''
  Creators (See below for writers and artists)


''Tales of the Slayers'' consists of two items, a Graphic Novel and a one-shot comic book, ''Tales of the Slayer: Broken Bottle of Djinn''.


INTRODUCTION


Both the graphic novel and the one-shot are set in the Buffyverse . Together they compose an anthology of short stories written by Joss Whedon , Jane Espenson , and others, each of which tells of a different member of the Slayer line.

The stories are presented in chronological order and offer snapshots of Slayers throughout history, from The First Slayer to Melaka Fray , (the Slayer of the future who starred in her own limited comic series).

The comic miniseries '' Tales Of The Vampires '', now available as a single collected Trade Paperback , offers a similar anthology of stories covering assorted Buffyverse vampires.


Canonical issues

See Also: Buffyverse canon





TALES WITHIN BUFFYVERSE CHRONOLOGY



Prologue


  • Story by: Joss Whedon

  • Pencils: Leinil Francis Yu

  • Inks: Dexter Vines

  • Colors: Dave Stewart

  • Letters: Michael Madsen

  • Setting: Ancient

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  • Synopsis:


::Follows the prehistoric first Slayer, as she is rejected by her village and instructed to fight alone.


Righteous


  • Story by: Joss Whedon

  • Art by: Tim Sale

  • Colors: Lee Loughridge

  • Letters: Richard Starkings

  • Setting: England, 1398

  • Synopsis:


::A Slayer operating within a walled medieval town during a period of witch-hunts.


The Innocent


  • Story by: Amber Benson

  • Art by: Ted Naifeh

  • Colors: Dave Stewart

  • Letters: Michael Madsen

  • Setting: France, 1789

  • Synopsis:


::During the French Revolution. Claudine the Slayer is used by her Watcher to kill an Aristocrat.


Presumption



::Elizabeth Weston has to operate in the English upper-class society of 1813.


The Glittering World


  • Story by: David Fury

  • Art and letters: Steve Lieber

  • Colors: Matthew Hollingsworth

  • Setting: Sunnydale, Late 19th Century

  • '''

  • Synopsis:


::The American West and a Navajo Slayer.


Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1937


  • Story by: Doug Petrie

  • Art by: Gene Colan

  • Originally collected in: Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn

  • Setting: New York 1937

  • Synopsis:


::A poor Slayer named Rachel O'Connor must deal with a powerful spirit.


Sonnenblume



::A young WWII -era German Slayer, Anni Sonnenblume, member of the Hitler Youth, learns who the true monsters are.


Nikki Goes Down!


  • Story by: Doug Petrie

  • Art by: Gene Colan

  • Colors: Dave Stewart

  • Letters: Michael Madsen

  • Setting: New York, 1970s

  • '''

  • Synopsis:


:: Nikki Wood tries to balance a love life and slaying.


Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1997


  • Story by: Jane Espenson

  • Art by: Jeff Matsuda

  • Originally collected in: Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn

  • Setting: Sunnydale, 1997

  • Canon characters: Buffy, Willow, Snyder

  • Synopsis:


::A powerful spirit is released from a locker at Sunnydale High . Buffy and Willow end up transporting it back to 1937.


Tales


  • Story by: Joss Whedon

  • Pencils: Karl Moline

  • Inks: Andy Owens

  • Colors: Dave Stewart

  • Letters: Michael Madsen

  • '''

  • Setting: New York, 26th century

  • Synopsis:


::Fray discovers a former Watcher’s sanctuary and records of her Slayer forebears.


CONTINUITY


  • Most of these 'tales' take place before 1995. Here they are listed with the other stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse :




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