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Issue: Love and Rockets Bonanza! #1
Publication Date: March 1989
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue (2 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Jaime Cover
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
20 (14 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Gary Groth
Disclose Notes: A collection of "odds n' ends" from various sources that never appeared in the original Love & Rockets magazine. 1st printing: January 1989

The back cover for this version is the front cover illustration from the "Gilbert" variant with logo removed.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers, black & white interior
Dimensions: US magazine size
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
First Line: The bull of the woods, if you will.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is used as the back cover for the "Gilbert" variant with logo removed.
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Love and Rockets Bonanza

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of contents, indicia and publishing credits.
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Mecanicos

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Maggie's first day as Rand's assistant doesn't turn out as planned.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Welcome to Palomar

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Chelo's Burden

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, drama
Character(s): Aurora Diaz (Israel's sister, single-panel); Pipo's Drunken Father; Physician; Emil (Chelo's father); Irma (Chelo's mother); Hans; Elvira (Pipo's mother)
First Line: As well as giving baths for a living in those days, Chelo was also a midwife.
Synopsis: The narrator gives a rundown on various residents of Palomar.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story is untitled. This is the title given to it in the Complete Love & Rockets #2. Not to be confused with the much longer story with the same title from Love & Rockets v1 #50.
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24T

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Penny starts an argument with Costigan in a restaurant.
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Pages: 1
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: The girls have a conversation about Maggie.
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Pages: 1
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The Goat

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Becky Snyder; The Big Girl
Synopsis: The narrator recounts what happened in a bar when she saw a person she hadn't seen since junior high.
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Pages: 1
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Sugar 'N' Spikes

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Pipo's Father (single-panel); Elvira (Pipo's mother, single-panel)
Synopsis: Vicente recounts what happened when he got into a kicking contest with Pipo.
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Pages: 3
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The Adventures of Maggie the Mechanic

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Synopsis: Maggie and Rand try to rescue Duke from inside a fallen robot.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The flashback story winds up in the final panel being a comic book Maggie is reading. A final farewell to her "Mechanics" stories. Rand Race's final appearance.
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The Many Faces of "Big" Danny Chesterfield

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: adult, drama, humorous
Character(s): "Big" Danny Chesterfield
Synopsis: Danny goes to a peep show and interrupts the proceedings.
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Pages: 4
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Hey Hopey

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Synopsis: Siblings Hopey and Joey talk about their mother and Maggie.
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Pages: 3
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A Little Story...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Synopsis: The kids don't want to play with Satch after he threatens to tell the adults that the kids are going to the watering hole.
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Pages: 6
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Those Wild and Mixed Up Locas

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Synopsis: Rand takes Maggie out to a restaurant in an effort to patch up their loose ends. Unfortunately, Maggie's insecurities get in the way.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: A follow up to the Mechanics, part six story from Love and Rockets #11 (April 1985).
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Space Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Guadelupe's Profesora
Synopsis: Guadalupe tries to find out if the sky goes on forever.
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Pages: 4
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A Date With Hopey

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Synopsis: Henry recounts his relationship with Maggie and Hopey, and his attempts to start a romance with the latter.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Henry's last name isn't revealed until his next appearance in Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 (2015).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Hi, girls. How are you feeling?
Synopsis: The narrator asks the girls their feelings on being inside a color comic book for the first time.
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Pages: 1
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Coloring Page

Activity  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A previously unpublished page from 1983.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: List of other Hernandez brothers books with mail ordering information. Also on the page is a silhouette drawing of Maggie. The second printing keeps the illustration but is missing the order information.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
First Line: The bull of the woods, if you will.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. In the "Jaime" variant this is used as the front cover with logo added.

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