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Issue: Love and Rockets #45
Publication Date: July 1994
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Issues: #45 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: 1994
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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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 #45 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover image alludes to a beauty pageant seen in the artist's "Bread, Love and Maria" story. The contestants shown here have the same badge numbers as the ones in the story but are not the same characters.
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Printed on inside front cover. Table of contents, indicia, production credits and an illustration from the
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Bread, Love and Maria

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Kip; Ingrid Castillo; Rosa and Hector's baby; Victor; 'Tio' Santiago; Chief; Tio; Rosa
First Line: --Nineteen-Sixty Three will mark the end of the Communist influence ruining the economic structure of our democracy...
Synopsis: Gorgo visits Hector to let him know his ex-wife Maria has passed in this decades-spanning story with many jumps back and forth in time, focusing on Hector from the time he met Maria at a 1948 beauty pageant to their marriage and then later divorce. A separation greatly complicated by his time working for the mob and then informing on them, resulting in him hiding out in a small village South of the border for over twenty years to keep Maria, Petra and Fritz safe.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Bread, Love and Maria [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #14 published December 1996
as Bread, Love and Maria [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[4] [unnamed variant] published July 2007
as Bread, Love and Maria [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
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Angelitas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Hiroshi (Cash and Vicki's adopted son, first appearance); Tio Jake; Tia Fina; Oscar; Sofia; Maribel
First Line: Dad couldn't have picked a better day for a picnic.
Synopsis: Maggie and Esther attend their dad's big family picnic in this story narrated entirely from Esther's point of view.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as Angelitas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as Angelitas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Angelitas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as Angelitas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
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We Want The World and We Want It Bald...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Synopsis: Hopey goes to Hoppers for the first time in about six years after playing a dismally attended L.A. show with her band The Damachers. Over there she learns from Janet that Maggie is in Texas, though not long before coming on to her.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as We Want the World and We Want it Bald [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as We Want the World and We Want it Bald [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as We Want the World and We Want it Bald... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as We Want the World and We Want it Bald [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Hopey's last time in Hoppers was in issue nineteen of the series (January 1987) in the story The Secrets of Life and Death: Vol. 5.

Speedy Ortiz's grave is seen at one point in the story.
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The KKK Comes To Hoppers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: autobiography, biography
Character(s): Ray's brother's friend; "Handsome" Guerra's grandma; Popular cheerleader from school
First Line: Hi, I'm Ray.
Synopsis: The KKK visit Hoppers causing a big melee to happen on a lazy Summer day before Ray's senior year in this story narrated from his point of view.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #15 published August 1997
as The KKK Come to Hoppers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as The KKK Come to Hoppers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: A note at the end: "Every event in this story was true. The names have been changed because I felt like it."

Ignacio, Ray's youngest brother make his first named appearance here. He seems to have first appeared issue 43's "Our Christmas!!!" story but as a baby in a crib. His next appearance will be as an adult in Love and Rockets vol. 4 #11 (January 2022).
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Angelitas Dos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Enero's unnamed sexual companion; Santiago
First Line: Esther, what do you think?
Synopsis: Esther and Maggie moving into their new apartment in Texas.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as Angelitas Dos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #13 published July 1996
as Angelitas Dos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Angelitas Dos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as Angelitas Dos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Love & Rockets Stuff

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Various L&R books and merchandise.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: This Comic is for You
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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)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover with a series of non-linear panels.

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