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Issue: Love and Rockets #1
Publication Date: January 1981
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Fair Warning: This Comic Contains Raw Language, Violence and Nudity
Publisher: FlagLos Bros. Hernandez
Brand: Hernandez Production
Indicia Publisher: Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Fair Warning: This Comic Contains Raw Language, Violence and Nudity
Content Items: 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: 800 copies printed.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and White
Dimensions: U.S. Magazine size
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 [2nd Printing] published October 1987
as Love and Rockets #1 (self-published) [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the first issue of "Love and Rockets"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introduction letter from Los Bros Hernandez and indicia page. Printed on inside front cover.
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BEM [Chapter 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Harold Penis; Bob Zitz; Bobo; Peter; Echo; Roxanne
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The initial "prototype" version of Love and Rockets had the saga of BEM split into two parts, which Gilbert expanded into five when Fantagraphics commissioned Los Bros Hernandez for a regular series.
This was the absolute first published debut of Luba. Her appearance here is much different from her depictions in later issues; thus, fandom and Gilbert generally agree that this is not the same character and her introduction here can't fit into the Palomar/Luba in America continuity.
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Mechan-X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Tall Tracker
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
as Mechan-X Starring Maggie, Race, Hopey [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Mechan-X [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.75
Disclose Notes: The title of this story implies that it is somehow written "By Izzy Ruebens". Izzy is another character in the Locas/Hoppers mythos, so it is unclear how she can be seen to write a story, as she isn't seen breaking any fourth wall at any point in this or future stories. She is also featured in another story later on in this same issue. This is one of the strange continuity problems that crop up in both Jaime and Gilbert's early stories, and is largely left unexplained.
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La Chota

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Las dixel fret im bondor!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Frenchie Firme [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Story is entirely in German.
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How To Kill A (By Isabel Ruebens)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Izzy
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In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
as How To Kill a... (By Isabel Ruebens) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Como Matar Un... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Music for Monsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bang and Inez
Character(s): Vertigo; Vivik; The Pimple / El Creepo Perverto; Woman with Convertible
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In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 published September 1982
as Music for Monsters I [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The title for this story is not listed anywhere in the story itself in this "prototype" version, but it can be deduced from the cover, using the process of elimination. In the full 68-page version, it is clearly denoted as the title of this sequence.
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BEM [Chapter 2]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Victim; Cha Cha Charlie
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part Two.
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ads

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This page is comprised entirely of parodies of the ads have been historically found in comic books since their inception. Readers are offered impossible wonders such as a "real live dinosaur", "exploding underwear", "robot slave kit", "mini-hand blaster", "changeling pills", "man-eating toilet", "death glasses", a "real LIVE person trapped in crystal ball", a book that will enable those who order it to "rule the world", and many more satiric takes on the traditional mail-in offers advertised in comics for decades, complete with an obviously fake address to send payment to in "Berlin, Russia" with two zip codes -- one is a standard 5-digit US format postal code, and one is longer, but crossed out.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets #1 [2nd Printing] published October 1987
as Love and Rockets #1 (self-published) - back cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #15 published August 1997
as Love & Rockets #1 (self-published) back cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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