Trade Paperbacks

The Girl Genius comic was first published in the size and shape of an ordinary comic book, and then subsequently reprinted in trade paperback or graphic novel reprint collections. Publication of the comic in trade paperback form continued after the publication of the comic book ceased, with the trade paperback being published after the main story pages that were to appear in it first appeared online.

The published trade paperback volumes are:

Girl Genius Volume 1: Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank, which contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared in issues 1, 2, and 3 of the comic, and which appear online with dates from to, and the short story Agatha Heterodyne and the Electric Coffin which appears separately on the Girl Genius site.

Girl Genius Volume 2: Agatha Heterodyne and the Airship City, which contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared in issues 4, 5, and 6 of the comic, and which appear online with dates from to, and the short story Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm and The Crown of the Sleeping King which appears on Cheyenne Wright's Arcane Times web site.

Girl Genius Volume 3: Agatha Heterodyne and the Monster Engine, which contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared in issues 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the comic, and which appear online with dates from to.

Girl Genius Volume 4: Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams, which contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared in issues 11, 12, and 13 of the comic, as well as those which would have appeared in the never-published issue 14, and which appear online with dates from to, and the short story Fan Fiction, which appeared online with dates from  to.

Note that the short stories do not appear in the same position in the printed collections as they do in the comic online. The two episodes of Revenge of the Weasel Queen, which have appeared in the normal date sequence of the online comic, have not, as yet, been published in print in any form.

Girl Genius Volume 5: Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared online with dates from to.

Girl Genius Volume 6: Agatha Heterodyne and the Golden Trilobite contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared online with dates from to, and the one-page short story An Agatha Heterodyne 1 Minute Mystery which appears separately on the Girl Genius web site.

Girl Genius Volume 7: Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle contains the main Girl Genius pages which appeared online with dates from to, and the short story Personal Trainer, which appeared online from  to.

Awaiting publication is Girl Genius Volume 8, which will include the main Girl Genius pages which appeared online with dates from to.