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Issue: Love and Rockets #7
Publication Date: July 1984
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Issues: #7 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing, $1.95 Cover Price
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 CAD
$2.50 USD
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Mature Readers
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: May 1984.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 8.5 in. x 11 in. (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Love & Rockets #7 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Letters of comment from Roger Weddall (Fitzroy, Australia); Richard Bruning (Madison, WI); Jua; Pete Scott (Harworth, Great Britain); James Laws Sebastian (New York, NY); Charles Van Meter; Jon Turnbow (Olympia, WA); Aaron Headly (Chester Springs, PA); Benno Schmidt (Brookline, MA). Also includes a postcard from Paul Mavrides and an cartoon from Riedel on the third page.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Starts on the inside front cover and continues (on pgs. 30-31) right before the promo ads at the end of the issue.
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Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas, part two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Benso; Joe
First Line: Heck no! I'm not crazy!
Synopsis: Maggie and Race, hired by Dr. Beaky, arrive in Rio Frio for a job repairing robots on the island of Chepan.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #3 [1st Edition] published August 1987
In Content Item: FlagEpix #11/1985 published November 1985
as Mekanix del två [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as The Lost Women / Las Mujeres Perdidas part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Las Mujeres Perdidas part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Parte Dos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Mechanics: Las Mujeres Perdidas - part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: This story has had multiple titles over the years. The title "Las Mujeres Perdidas" wasn't used until the final page of the concluding chapter in Love & Rockets #11. Later reprints have titled this "The Lost Women" and most recently "Mechanics" once again.
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Act of Contrition Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Archie's Mom; Esther; Tom
Synopsis: Luba is in San Fideo in an attempt to get a part to repair her movie house's projector. Meanwhile, unbeknowst to her, her bath house is part rubble because the water heater blew up. By chance she meets up with Archie again and their cooled relationship heats up and turns physical.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHeartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] published August 1987
as Act of Contrition part 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as Act of Contrition part 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as Act of Contrition part three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Locos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Carlos; Jack Ruebens; Izzy's Mom [Juana Ortiz]; Izzy's Dad
Synopsis: Speedy recounts to Carlos Izzy's evolution from gang leader to straight-laced college student to dark neighborhood eccentric.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Locos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes #[nn] published January 2004
as Locos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Locos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Locos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Locos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Whispering Tree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Beto
Synopsis: Guadalupe tells Doralis a ghost story about a deceased bruja and a tree.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as The Whispering Tree [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe New Comics Anthology #[nn] published January 1991
as The Whispering Tree [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as The Whispering Tree [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as The Whispering Tree [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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A Commitment to Excellence and Originality: Fantagraphics Books Spring 1984 Catalogue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: In the first printing this a promo/catalog for the whole line of Fantagraphics books and periodicals. In the second printing this is strictly order info for various Love & Rockets products.
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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: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Love & Rockets #7 back cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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