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Issue: Love and Rockets #8
Publication Date: September 1984
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Issues: #8 of 53 Issues (72 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 CAD
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Mature Readers
Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #52.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black and white with color covers
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm)
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going Series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Locas
Character(s): Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Monica Miranda Zandinski; Rand Race
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Table of contents, production credits and indicia. Starts on inside front cover, continued right after the final story.

Letters of comment from Richmond Gardner (Winchester, MA); Matt A. Yockey (Galveston, IN); Mark Voyack (Coaldale, PA); Matthew-Louis M. Levin (Brattleboro, VT); Thom Young (Boise, ID); John MacLeod (Ontario, Canada); Garold Reynolds (Santa Cruz, CA); David Campiti (N. Attleboro, VA)
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Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas Part Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama
Feature(s): Locas
Character(s): Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Reno Banks (first appearance); Monica Miranda Zandinski; Terry [Theresa Leeanne Downe]; Jaime Hernandez (single-panel cameo); Dot Winks; Rand Race; Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Penny Century; Rena Titañon; Doctor Beaky; Flaco; Joe; Lester; Benso; Zero Gravity; Machi; Chiness; Boo Boo
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #3 [1st Edition] published August 1987
In Content Item: FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as The Lost Women / Las Mujeres Perdidas part three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Las Mujeres Perdidas part three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Parte Tres [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Mechanics: Las Mujeres Perdidas - part three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Titled on the page "Mechanics Part III." The story is not given the title "Las Mujeres Perdidas" until the final page of the concluding chapter in Love & Rockets #11.
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The Laughing Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Feature(s): Palomar
Character(s): Diana Villaseñor; Tonanzin Villaseñor; Jesus Angel; Chelo; Carmen; Laura; Heraclio; Satch; Israel Diaz; Vicente; Pipo (1st flashback only); Pintor (2nd flashback only); Manuel (2nd flashback only); Toco (2nd flashback only); Soledad Marquez (2nd flashback only)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHeartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] published August 1987
as The Laughing Sun part one [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories #[nn] published August 2003
as The Laughing Sun part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as The Laughing Sun part one [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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On Isidro's Beach

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Feature(s): Palomar
Character(s): Casimira; Guadalupe; Luba; Doralis; Maricela; Tipín Tipín; Isidro Rivas
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as On Isidro's Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as On Isidro's Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories #[nn] published August 2003
as On Isidro's Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as On Isidro's Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: In the second edition these two pages are a promo for Love & Rockets material
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Pages: 2
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Palomar
Character(s): Luba; Chelo; Heraclio; Carmen; Tipin' Tipin'
First Line: Heartbreak Soup
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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