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Issue: The Complete Love & Rockets #1
Publication Date: February 1989
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Issues: #1 of 28 Issues (50 Printings)
Title: Music for Mechanics
Variant: 3rd Edition
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 164
ISBN: 093019313X
UPC/EAN: 978093019313390000
Price: $16.95 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 29 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 3rd Printing: February 1989; 4th printing: September 1994 (14.95 USD); 5th printing: June 1996 ?; 6th printing: November 2000; 7th printing: May 2004 (18.95 USD; 25.95 CAD). This book indexed from a Third Printing; other printings may vary slightly in some sequences. The cover art and price may also vary.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color Covers, Mostly Black & White Interiors
Dimensions:  
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Softcover (#1 - 21; 23; 25); Hardcover- (#22 & 24)
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In8
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Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Music for Mechanics

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title of this cover has been re-designed over the various printings.
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Pipo; Vicente; Israel; Jesus; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Title and publisher pages; Indicia, production credits and table of contents.
Table of contents omits “La Chota,” “How to Kill a    by Isabel Ruebens,” and “Meanwhile . . . Back at the Ranch”; and collapses the multi-part “BEM” and “Cover Gallery” into single content items.
These pages include illustrations from the stories.
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A Habitable World The Brothers Hernandez

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Comics were pretty much invented in America.
Synopsis: Carter Scholz talks about the importance of Love and Rockets to comics as a major achievement.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Illustrated with various panels and characters from the comics.
These are not all the same as were used in the first edition.
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[untitled]

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Mechan-X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Rand Race; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley; Tall Tracker; Penny Century
First Line: Goody ... time for work ...
Synopsis: Maggie is hired to work with the pro-solar mechanic Rand Race. Tall Tracker attacks Race to get him to rebuild a robot army but Maggie saves the day.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was Mechan-X [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7.85
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La Chota

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Pages: 0.15
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Locas Tambien

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Joey Glass; Speedy Ortiz [Eulalio Ortiz]
First Line: Thirty-five dollars and a six pack to my name...
Synopsis: The story of how Maggie and Hopey first met.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was Locas Tambien [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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How To Kill A... (By Isabel Ruebens)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was How To Kill a... (By Isabel Ruebens) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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BEM

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Leonor [Leonore; Lenor]; Leonore's boyfriend; Suzy Niznick; Harold Penis; Bob Zitz; Bobo; Luba; Peter; Castle Radium; Echo; Roxanne; Paulo P. Piñata; Cha Cha Charlie; Patrice; giant monster; BEM
First Line: Meanwhile, the monster moved across the sea at its usual speed with the ever present whirlyboat close behind ...
Synopsis: BEM has escaped and is on a murderous rampage, pursued by hero Castle Radium.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was BEM: Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was BEM: Chapter 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was BEM: Chapter 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was BEM: Chapter 4 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was BEM: Chapter 5 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 40
Disclose Notes: 5 chapters to this story.
In the comic issue and in previous editions of this book, the girl's name was spelled Leonore in chapters 1-3, and Lenore in chapters 4-5. In this edition her name starts as Leonor, then Leonore, then Lenor, then back to Leonor.
In part 3, page 7, panel 6, a small black spot has been added to this edition to show where Luba has been flung far away by the monster.
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Barrio Huerta

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rosalba; Lencho; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley
First Line: Rosalba!
Synopsis: The first 3 panels are in Spanish. A factory worker, coming home at the end of his shift, is told that the baby died that morning. The last panel is in English - Rand and Yax have discovered a grave stone with a cherub.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was Barrio Huerta (Hoppers 13) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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...Penny Century, You're Fired!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; H. R. Costigan
First Line: Wow! Atoma is single-handedly holding off those alien attackers!
Synopsis: All Penny Century wants is to become a superhero.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was Penny Century, You're Fired!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Music For Monsters I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bang Bang; Inez Perez; Vivik; El Creepo Perverto; Woman with Convertible
First Line: Let's go, Vertigo! Giddyap!
Synopsis: Two young women in the desert photographing monsters.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was Music for Monsters I [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Mecanicos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
First Line: C'mon, Maggot! You've been in there for two hours!
Synopsis: Maggie becomes Rand's assistant.
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In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Bonanza! #1 [Gilbert Cover] published March 1989
as Mecanicos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Mecánicos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Mecanicos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Original story first published in this volume.
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Mechanics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Rand Race; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; Duke Morales; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Terry [Theresa Leeanne Downe]; Yax Haxley; Ben Ruben; Tse Tse [Rosa Colores Arriaga Banuelos]; Rena Titañon; Pedero Rodriguez Sanjo; Sancho Sanjo; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Bernie Carbo; Doctor Numura Mumura; Speedy Ortiz [Eulalio Ortiz]; Tiger Rosa; Maria Bravo (cameo); Vicki Glori [Victoria Chascarrillo]
First Line: Dear Hopey, Surprise! It's me!
Synopsis: Maggie and Rand Race are sent to fix a downed ship in a volatile jungle country where dinosaurs still live and the leader is an oppressive dictator.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #2 [1st Printing] published January 1983
was Mechanics [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 40
Disclose Notes: Forty-page story is presented discontinuously over 41 pages with the addition a new one-page story between pages 30 and 31.
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Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]
First Line: Ouch! Take it easy, Izzy!
Synopsis: Hopey gets a homemade tattoo while discussing Maggie's trip with Izzy and Daffy.
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From Content Item: FlagMechanics #2 published November 1985
was Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This item appears between pages 30 and 31 of “Mechanics.” Original story first published in this volume.
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Radio Zero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Errata Stigmata (Intro); Bubbles; Valentia
First Line: In the case of Errata Stigmata
Synopsis: Errata Stigmata and her friend Bubbles are involved in an embassy bombing.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #2 [1st Printing] published January 1983
was Radio Zero [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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¿Music for Monsters? II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bang Bang; Inez Perez; Killiaak monsters; Doreena
First Line: One day Bang woke up and decided she was more than fed up with the current state of what was passing for, ahem, 'science-fiction'.
Synopsis: Bang Bang and Inez stop 5 Killiaak monsters from stealing a deadly disease.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #2 [1st Printing] published January 1983
was ¿Music for Monsters? II [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The title appears in the story as "¿Music for Monsters?".
The table of contents lists it as "Music for Monsters II".
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Somewhere in California

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Vodor; Xed; Zezbar [Zizbah]; Tony; Noalda; King Svedor of Marzipan; Katie; Cluzia; Mosca
First Line: There they are! The Polaris Apartments! Go around to the alley way, now!
Synopsis: Aliens, the deposed King of Marzipan and drug dealers all are at the Polaris Apartments.
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #2 [1st Printing] published January 1983
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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A Little Story...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Pipo; Martin; Satch [Sakahaftewa]; Chelo; Vicente; Israel; Jesus
First Line: I know where you're going!
Synopsis: The children of Palomar climb on the stone idols outside town.
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In Content Item: FlagHeartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] published August 1987
as A Little Story... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Bonanza! #1 [Gilbert Cover] published March 1989
as A Little Story... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories #[nn] published August 2003
as A Little Story... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as A Little Story... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Original story first published in this volume.
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[untitled]

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Cover Gallery

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Beginning of the cover gallery section. Contains an illustration taken from the story BEM.
This page is new for the 3rd edition.
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Love and Rockets #1

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: For the 3rd edition, these covers were reprinted in black and white, rather than color as in the previous editions.
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Love 'y' Rockets

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
was Love 'y' Rockets [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reprints back cover of Love and Rockets #1 (Fall 1982).
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Love and Rockets #2

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Penny Century; Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Dinosaurs
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #2 [1st Printing] published January 1983
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Monster X
First Line: ...er Tavos Qualvida?
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From Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #2 [1st Printing] published January 1983
was [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reprints back cover of Love and Rockets #2 (Spring 1983).
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If you enjoyed this book

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Other Love and Rockets items for sale by Fantagraphics.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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The rocket is now boarding...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Love and Rockets
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Disclose Notes: Back cover and pull-quotes from various places about this volume.

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