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Issue: The Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn]
Publication Date: May 1988
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 1988
Volume: none
Pages: 152
ISBN: 0930193652
UPC/EAN: 978093019365290000
Price: $14.95 CAD
$10.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 25 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: One of four Love & Rockets reprint paperbacks in this format- the other titles were "Love & Rockets: Short Stories," "Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories" and "The Lost Women and Other Stories."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White
Dimensions: 6.5" x 9" (16.51 cm x 22.86 cm)
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: One-Shot
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Palomar
Tonantzín Villaseñor
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0
Front and back cover inner flaps that include a blurb from Rodi.
[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
1
The Reticent Heart

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
4
Title page, table of contents, indicia and production credits
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Welcome to Palomar...

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Palomar
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets Bonanza! #1 [Gilbert Cover] published March 1989
as Welcome to Palomar [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #8 [1st Edition] published December 1989
as Welcome to Palomar [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Sugar 'N' Spikes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Palomar
Vicente; Pipo; Jesus; Toco; Israel
Vicente recounts what happened when he got into a kicking contest with Pipo.
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets Bonanza! #1 [Gilbert Cover] published March 1989
as Sugar 'N' Spikes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #8 [1st Edition] published December 1989
as Sugar 'N' Spikes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories #[nn] published August 2003
as Sugar 'N' Spikes [Story on Interior Page(s)][#nn]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[4] published July 2007
as Sugar 'n' Spikes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
On Isidro's Beach

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Palomar
Casimira; Luba; Lupe; Doralis; Tipín Tipín; Maricela; Isidro Rivas
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #8 [1st Printing] published September 1984
was On Isidro's Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Ecce Homo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Heraclio; Carmen; Tonantzín Villaseñor; Luba; Vicente; Israel; Maricela; Guadalupe; Pipo; Sergio; Augustin; Lucia; Tipín Tipín; Diana; Chelo; Borro; Gato; Satch; Archie; Ofelia; Martin El Loco
Palomar has a village picnic.
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #10 [1st Printing] published January 1985
was Ecce Homo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
16
Space Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Theo; Maricela; Guadalupe; Ofelia; Luba
Guadalupe tries to find out if the sky goes on forever.
Reprinting
FlagAnything Goes! #4 published May 1987
was Space Case [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Slug Fest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Tonantzín Villaseñor; Diana Villaseñor; El Clavo; Theo; Chelo; Tipín Tipín; Carmen
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #12 [1st Printing] published July 1985
was Slug Fest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Reticent Heart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Heraclio; Carmen Jimenez; Jesus; Israel; Satch; Vicente; Luba; Ofelia; Tonantzín Villaseñor; Chelo
Heraclio recalls his sexual encounter with Luba from when he was fifteen years old
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #12 [1st Printing] published July 1985
was The Reticent Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
The Way Things're Going

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Jesus; Vicente; Gato; Luba; Doralis
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #17 published June 1986
was The Way Things're Going [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
The Whispering Tree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Palomar
Doralis; Guadalupe; Ofelia
Guadalupe tells Doralis a ghost story
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #7 [unnamed variant] published July 1984
was The Whispering Tree [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
Love Bites

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Carmen; Heraclio; Gloria; Hopey (cameo); Tonantzín Villaseñor; Luba; Ofelia; Tipín Tipín
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #16 [unnamed variant] published March 1986
was Love Bites [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
An American In Palomar, part one

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Howard Miller; Tonantzín Villaseñor; Carmen; Chelo; Luba; Diana; Theo
Howard Miller walks the streets of Palomar photographing its citizens. He has an encounter with Tonantzin, who gets the idea he can help her get noticed by Hollywood. When Theo introduces Miller to some of the ruins outside town, Miller gets lost in one of them and has an hallucinatory experience. He returns home in a shaken frame of mind and finds Tonantzin waiting for him.
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #13 [1st Printing] published September 1985
was An American in Palomar [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
An American in Palomar, part two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Beth; Diana; Howard Miller; Carmen; Augustin; Chelo; Tonantzín Villaseñor; Doralis; Casimira; Ofelia; Guadalupe; Maricela; Luba; Theo
The citizens of Palomar find out that they are being used by Howard
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #14 [1st Printing] published November 1985
was An American in Palomar, Part Two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
14
Holidays in the Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Palomar
Luba; Jesus; Obregon; Tonantzin; Marcos
Jesus, in prison, fantasizes about the women in his life.
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #15 [1st Printing, $2.25 Cover Price] published January 1986
was Holidays in the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
14
For the Love of Carmen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Palomar
Heraclio; Carmen; Vicente; Israel; Satch; Jesus; Toco; Luba; Manuel; Tonantzín Villaseñor; Chelo; Pipo; Lucia; Elvira; Howard Miller
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #20 published April 1987
was For The Love Of Carmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Tears From Heaven

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Errata Stigmata
Errata Stigmata; Uncle Ira; Aunt Zephie; Piano Teacher; Dr. D. David Schulz; Oona
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #11 [1st Printing] published April 1985
was Tears From Heaven [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
15
A True Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
autobiography, biography
Gilbert Hernandez; The Fabulous Moolah; Adrian Adonis [Keith Franks]; Girlfriend; Iron Mike Sharpe; Announcer
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets #16 [unnamed variant] published March 1986
was A True Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
promo for three other Love & Rockets books
[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photo)
? (photo)
? (photo)
Subject Matter
Gilbert Hernandez (photo)
Born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, just north of Los Angeles, Gilbert Hernandez inherited a love of comics...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover blurb with a single photo

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