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Issue: The Complete Love & Rockets #1
Publication Date: October 1985
 
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Variant: First Edition
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 160
ISBN: 093019313X
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $13.50 CAD
$9.95 USD
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Content Items: 33 (19 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color Covers, Mostly Black & White Interiors
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Binding: Softcover (#1 - 21; 23; 25); Hardcover- (#22 & 24)
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
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The cover title is “Love and Rockets,” with the words “Book One” appearing above and to the left of the logo. The spine title is “Love and Rockets Book One.”
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Love and Rockets

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Title page does not include a book or volume number.
Includes a reproduction of a panel from "Mechanics", page 106.
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[untitled]

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Copyright page identifies the edition, and records the month and year of publication.
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Contents

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Credits
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Subject Matter
Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Errata Stigmata
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Table of contents omits “La Chota,” “How to Kill a    by Isabel Ruebens,” and “Meanwhile . . . Back at the Ranch”; and collapses the multi-part “BEM” and “Cover Gallery” into single content items.
Two character illustrations.
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A Habitable World: The Brothers Hernandez

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Comics were pretty much invented in America.
Carter Scholz talks about the importance of Love and Rockets to comics as a major achievement.
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Illustrated with various panels from the comics.
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Mechan-X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Rand Race; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley; Tall Tracker; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
Goody ... time for work ...
Maggie is hired to work with the pro-solar mechanic Rand Race. Tall Tracker attacks Race to get him to rebuild a robot army but Maggie saves the day.
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La Chota

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Locas Tambien

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Joey Glass; Speedy Ortiz [Eulalio Ortiz]
Thirty-five dollars and a six pack to my name...
The story of how Maggie and Hopey first met.
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How to Kill a... (by Isabel Ruebens)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]
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BEM [Part One]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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drama, science fiction
Leonore [Lenore]; Leonore's boyfriend; Suzy Niznick; Harold Penis; Bob Zitz; Bobo; Luba; Peter; Castle Radium; Echo;
Roxanne; Paulo P. Piñata
Meanwhile, the monster moved across the sea at its usual speed with the ever present whirlyboat close behind ...
BEM has escaped and is on a murderous rampage, pursued by detective Castle Radium.
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Leonore's name is spelled Lenore in parts 4 and 5.
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BEM 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Leonore [Lenore]; Leonore's boyfriend; Castle Radium; Cha Cha Charlie
Something ... is wrong.
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BEM 3

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Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Luba; Peter; Leonore's boyfriend; Patrice; Roxanne; Paulo P. Piñata; giant monster
N-no, really, Luba ... I-I think I'm sick ...
Six individuals try to ensnare the giant monster, who reveals that its intelligence has been increased by BEM.
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BEM [Part Four]

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Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Leonore [Lenore]; Castle Radium; giant monster [as Paulo P. Piñata]; Luba
What..? Oh. I'm still here ...
The giant monster has taken over the body of Paulo P. Piñata, and is indulging in the delights of a festival in San Sassafrass. Leonore and Castle Radium also go to San Sassafras in search of BEM.
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BEM [Part Five]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Leonore [Lenore]; giant monster [as Paulo P. Piñata]; Luba; Castle Radium; BEM; Leonore's boyfriend
God, I hadn't run like that since the eighth grade ...
Luba and Castle Radium fight the monster that has taken the body of Paulo P. Piñata. Leonore reveals the secret of BEM to her boyfriend.
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Barrio Huerta

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Rosalba; Lencho; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley
Rosalba!
The first 3 panels are in Spanish. A factory worker, coming home at the end of his shift, is told that the baby died that morning. The last panel is in English - Rand and Yax have discovered a grave stone with a cherub.
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. . . Penny Century, You're Fired!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; H. R. Costigan
Wow! Atoma is single-handedly holding off those alien attackers!
All Penny Century wants is to become a superhero.
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Music for Monsters I

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bang Bang; Inez Perez; Vertigo; Vivik; El Creepo Perverto; Woman with Convertible
Let's go, Vertigo! Giddyap!
Bang and Inez in the desert photographing monsters.
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Source of the title “Music for Monsters I” is the table of contents.
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Mecanicos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
C'mon, Maggot! You've been in there for two hours!
Maggie becomes Rand's assistant.
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Original story first published in this volume.
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Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #1]

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Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents.
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Cover Gallery: Love 'y' Rockets

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Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents. Reprints back cover of Love and Rockets #1 (Fall 1982).
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Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #2]

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Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents.
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Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #2 back]

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Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents. Reprints back cover of Love and Rockets #2 (Spring 1983).
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Mechanics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Rand Race; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; Duke Morales; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Terry [Theresa Leeanne Downe]; Yax Haxley; Ben Ruben; Tse Tse [Rosa Colores Arriaga Banuelos]; Rena Titañon; Pedero Rodriguez Sanjo; Sancho Sanjo; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Bernie Carbo; Doctor Numura Mumura; Speedy Ortiz [Eulalio Ortiz]; Tiger Rosa; Maria Bravo (cameo); Vicki Glori [Victoria Chascarrillo]
Dear Hopey, Surprise! It's me!
Maggie and Rand Race are sent to fix a downed ship in a volatile jungle country where dinosaurs still live and the leader is an oppressive dictator.
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40
Forty-page story is presented discontinuously over 41 pages with the addition a new one-page story between pages 30 and 31.
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Meanwhile . . . Back at the Ranch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]
Ouch! Take it easy, Izzy!
Hopey gets a homemade tattoo while discussing Maggie's trip with Izzy and Daffy.
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This item appears between pages 30 and 31 of “Mechanics.” Original story first published in this volume.
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Radio Zero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy, science fiction
Errata Stigmata (intro); Bubbles; Valentia
In the case of Errata Stigmata
Errata Stigmata and her friend Bubbles are involved in an embassy bombing.
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¿Music for Monsters? II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bang Bang; Inez Perez; Killiaak monsters; Doreena
One day Bang woke up and decided she was more than fed up with the current state of what was passing for, ahem, 'science-fiction'.
Bang and Inez stop 5 Killiaak monsters from stealing a deadly disease.
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Source of the title suffix “II” is the table of contents.
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Somewhere in California . . .

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Subject Matter
science fiction
Vodor; Xed; Zezbar [Zizbah]; Tony; Noalda; King Svedor of Marzipan; Katie; Cluzia; Mosca
There they are! The Polaris Apartments! Go around to the alley way, now!
Aliens, the deposed King of Marzipan and drug dealers all are at the Polaris Apartments.
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A Little Story . . .

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Pipo; Martin; Satch [Sakahaftewa]; Chelo; Vicente; Israel; Jesus
I know where you're going!
The children of Palomar climb on the stone idols outside town.
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Original story first published in this volume.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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This is the volume’s back cover. Mr. Moore's contribution is a blurb praising the work of the Hernandez brothers.

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