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Issue: Love and Rockets #30

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Publication Date: March 1992

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Detail

Issues: #30 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)

Title:

Variant: 2nd Printing

Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers

Publisher: Flag

Fantagraphics

Brand: Fantagraphics Books

Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $3.75 CAD
$2.95 USD

Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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:

Variants2

Love and Rockets #30 [1st Printing]

Love and Rockets #30 [2nd Printing]

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Images1

Cover, Wraparound

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Title Page

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Content Items (5 total)

Nature Boy

Illustration on Cover, Wraparound from base issue

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Wraparound cover.

Love & Rockets no. 30 July 1989

Credits on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Includes indicia.
Printed on inside front cover.

Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun ... and Counting

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: drama, romantic

Character(s): Emil; Dee; The Doctor

First Line: Maggie.

Synopsis: Thanks to Penny's machinations, Maggie reunites with Hopey for the first time in over two years. But Penny's dream of them staying together and getting married meets harsh reality as the duo hang out in H. R. Costigan's East Coast mansion and get caught up on their lives, including Hopey's recent pregnancy and miscarriage. And where does Ray fit into the picture?

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 24

Notes: Hopey and Maggie's first time together since issue nineteen's The Secrets of Life and Death: Vol. 5 story (January 1987).

Maya's name isn't revealed until the following issue.

Third mention of Spooky the Smokey so far in the series.

Poison River Chapter 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: drama, romantic

Character(s): Jose; Gomez; Señora #1; Señor; Señora #2; Alicia

First Line: Mar... Luba... Luba.!

Synopsis: Destitute, Eduardo begs for money in the big city, walking many miles while carrying Luba until reaching Hilda and Ofelia's place in Isleta. Over a year later, feeling haunted by Maria, he leaves, shovel in hand, presumably to find better work. He's found dead on a beach, possibly murdered. Ofelia, Ruben and Gina head out of town with baby Luba. Ofelia gets off the car to take care of Luba's soiled diapers, then hears gunshots. Attacked by unknown assailants for their leftism, Ofelia's friends are brutally raped and murdered, while she is shot multiples times and buried alive. She survives.

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Pages: 23

Notes: Part two of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria, her father Eduardo and her cousin Ofelia.

In part eight of the story, it's made clear in a conversation between Salas and Garza that the murders were a clear attempt to send a message to leftists in the North.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Love and Rockets

First Line: Love for sale

Reprinting

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Pages: 2

Notes: Advertisement for: the Love and Rockets 1989 Calendar; Love and Rockets 33" x 24" poster; Love and Rockets Sketchbook; Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1; The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #126; Anything Goes! (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 [Second Printing], #26, #27, #28, #29, #30; The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Love and Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series); The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series); Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) and The Reticent Heart and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series); Love and Rockets (Titan, 1987 series); Mechanics (Titan, 1988 series); Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series); Duck Feet: A Heartbreak Soup Graphic Novel (Titan, 1988 series).
Inside back cover and preceding page.