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Issue: Love and Rockets #43
Publication Date: December 1993
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Issues: #43 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1993
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.75 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 11 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: November 1993
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Love & Rockets #43 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Table of Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents, production credits, indicia accompanied by a blown-up panel from the Maggie the Mechanic or Perla the Prostitute story.
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Love Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Receptionist
First Line: I just wanted to know if you needed anything, Petra.
Synopsis: A story with approximately twelve abrupt back and forth shifts in time. Petra recovers from breast reduction surgery to help her back problem. Fritz visits her mom Maria who objects to Petra's surgery. Flashback to the first time Petra met Gorgo when she was a little girl, then to a time he saved the girls after a car accident. Gorgo accidentally lets Petra know that she has a half-sister named Luba. Petra asks him to find her. He then gets shot multiple times in her front porch by a Garza partisan. Flash forward to Maria's funeral, who has died at the age of sixty-two due to a brain tumor.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Love Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Love Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[4] [unnamed variant] published July 2007
as Love Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Gorgo's assailant mentions Garza, a drug lord that died in a shootout in the artist's Poison River, part 7 story in issue thirty-five.
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The Navas of Hazel Court

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, sports
Character(s): Oscar Nava; Mariposa Nava; Junior Nava
First Line: Xochitl la Negra... Xochitl la Terible... Xochitl la Tigresa... Xochitl la Reina...
Synopsis: Xochitl with her family at home after losing a wrestling match.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as The Navas of Hazel Court [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as The Navas of Hazel Court [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as The Navas of Hazel Court [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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Marilyn Monroe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, sports
Synopsis: A wordless tale of a bloody round of boxing.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #15 published August 1997
as Marilyn Monroe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as Marilyn Monroe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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Our Christmas!!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, drama, humorous
Character(s): Tia Canuta; Two Unnamed Dominguez brothers
First Line: Benny! Ray!
Synopsis: The Dominguez kids can't wait to receive their Christmas presents as the clock winds down to Christmas day in this Charles Schulz/Hank Ketcham mashup.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #15 published August 1997
as Our Christmas!!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as Our Christmas!!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: As can be made out from the story, there are six Dominguez siblings- Ray, Benny, Blandina, Ignacio and two (as of August 2024) unnamed ones. Ignacio, the baby in the crib, won't be named until issue 45's "The KKK Comes To Hoppers" story.
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Pipo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
First Line: I'm Pipo; pronounced Pee'-Poe.
Synopsis: Pipo narrates her life story up to that point- her birth, the birth of her son, her marriage and divorce from Gato and how she grew her successful sportwear business both in Palomar and then later in Hollywood without knowing a word of English. Fills in many gaps left from previous stories.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Pipo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Pipo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as Pipo [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 Pipo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[4] [unnamed variant] published July 2007
as Pipo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: First reference to Guadalupe having a secret baby boy which will later be revealed to be Jimmy Reyna, her son with future husband Gato.

Pipo's reference to Gato slapping her in front of everyone occurred in the Ecce Homo story from issue ten. The reference to the rampaging monkeys, her affair with Khamo and the serial killer refers to the Human Diastrophism story from LR #20-26.
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Maggie The Mechanic or Perla The Prostitute

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Luz; Eme; Claudia Casey; Maggie's john (flashback); Lawyer Goldman
First Line: Penny, Luz and I are doing lunch a Frito's, where the food doesn't bite back like here.
Synopsis: Penny gets fired from her waitressing job after only a few hours of working. Maggie replies to some want ads for mechanic jobs but doesn't get hired. She recounts to Gina the first time she pulled a trick after breaking up with Hopey for good and being stuck in the East Coast with not enough money to get back. Gina tells Maggie she wants to be her girlfriend.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as Maggie the Mechanic or Perla the Prostitute [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as Maggie the Mechanic or Perla the Prostitute [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Maggie the Mechanic or Perla the Prostitute [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as Maggie the Mechanic or Perla the Prostitute [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Details what happened to Maggie during her absence between issues thirty-three and forty of the series. Maggie's reference to her girlfriend posing as a call girl refers to a story Hopey told her in issue thirty's 93 Million Miles from the Sun story. Rand Race is revealed to have gotten married.
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Love Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: letters from Ho Che Anderson, John Blackburn (West Hollywood, CA) and Harry Daniel Hettmannsperger III (Stockton, CA)
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Love & Rockets Stuff

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Two page spread promoting back issues, subscriptions, and other merchandise.
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous, sports
First Line: If you really loved me, you'd know what I mean!
Synopsis: Husband and wife at the wrestling ring.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #15 published August 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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