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Issue: Love and Rockets #8

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Publication Date: August 1991

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Issues: #8 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Second Printing

Rating: Mature Readers

Publisher: Flag

Fantagraphics

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.

On Sale Date: 1991

Volume: 1

Pages: 32

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
8 (3 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

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Love and Rockets #8 [1st Printing]

Love and Rockets #8 [Second Printing]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Pages: 1

Indicia / Staff / Contents / Letters

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Table of contents, production credits and indicia. Starts on the inside front cover, continued right after the final story.

Letters of comment from Richmond Gardner (Winchester, MA); Matt A. Yockey (Galveston, IN)

Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas Part Three

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama

Character(s): Flaco; Joe; Lester; Benso; Boo Boo; Fourty-Four

Synopsis: Hopey is uptight because Izzy got into an accident and because she hasn't heard from Maggie who is in the island of Chepan. In Rio Frio, Dot tries to get a reluctant Rand Race to agree to an interview but then asks him out to lunch. They then spend the night together which upsets Maggie when she finds out. Dr. Beaky refuses to acquiesce to the Chepan islander's demands for freedom, so they begin to blow up his factories and warehouses one by one. Rand rushes to the island to warn Maggie and the visiting Rena but fails to get there in time before the bomb in their building goes off.

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Pages: 14

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.

The Laughing Sun

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: drama

Character(s): Laura and Jesus's unnamed baby; Marta (Satch's Wife)

Synopsis: Jesus goes on an apparent rampage, hurting his wife and wrecking his house before heading to the mountains. His old friends Israel, Satch, Vicente and Heraclio get together and go try to find him.

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Pages: 8

Notes: The Vicente character states on page five that the events in the Sopa de Gran Pena, Part Two story (from issue four) happened a decade earlier.

Signed "May-June '84"

On Isidro's Beach (Heartbreak Soup Theater)

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: drama

Character(s): Isidro Rivas; Isidro's Wife (flashback)

Synopsis: Guadalupe encounters a man on the beach who is staring at her. He comes closer and stares at Casimira and Maricela who are playing in the water. It later turns out to be Isidro, a formerly prosperous man who has run into hard times.

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Pages: 8

Letters Cont.

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1.44

Notes: Letters from 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); Bill Wray; Bosco Santamaria; Mike Prince

[untitled]

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

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: In the first printing there are two ads. The first ad is back issue order info for the first seven issues of the L&R series. It shares the same page with the final part of the letters section. The second ad (on the inside back cover) is for the second issue of Dalgoda. In the second printing (from 1991) the letters on the third page are not included. Instead a full two pages of Love & Rockets material are advertised.

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Pages: 1.56

Heartbreak Soup

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 1

Notes: back cover