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Issue: Love and Rockets #6
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Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 USD
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #43.

First printing: March 1984
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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:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Act of Contrition Part 2

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
 
Miscellaneous
1
Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (photo)
? (photo)
typeset
Subject Matter
Letters of comment from J. Sanchez (Northridge, CA); Doug Lafrenier (New York, NY); Jack Neignefind (Dauphin, PA); Kendall Carnes (Memphis, TN); Steve Rude (as Steven O. Rude) (Madison, WI); David B. Collins (Oakville, CN); and Lee Tamayhose.
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Miscellaneous
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Starts on the inside front cover and continues right after the final story. The first page includes an announcement for a Hernandez Bros West Coast tour with a small photo of the bros.
The Mystery Wen (Heartbreak Soup Theater)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, humorous, romantic
Pepo; La Li
Heraclio worries about his health when he discovers a wen on his scalp.
Reprinting
FlagHeartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] published August 1987
as The Mystery Wen (Heartbreak Soup Theater) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #6 published May 1989
as The Mystery Wen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #6 [First Printing] published May 1989
as The Mystery Wen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as The Mystery Wen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as The Mystery Wen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
This is the first story featuring Heraclio and Carmen as married adults. Like with the previous issue's story, taking place several years after the events in issue four where Carmen was a child and Heraclio a teenager. The Tonantzin/Tonansin character is not to be confused with Tonansin Carolongas who made a brief appearance in issue four. Though she is drawn differently from her later appearances.
Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas, part one

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, science fiction
Franco; Mrs. Lopez
Hi ho Hi ho It's back to work we go been weeks and weeks since I've seen Race
Maggie becomes jealous of a reporter who is interested in Rand.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #3 [1st Edition] published August 1987
FlagEpix #11/1985 published November 1985
as Mekanix [Story on Interior Page(s)]"The Lost Women"
FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as The Lost Women / Las Mujeres Perdidas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Las Mujeres Perdidas part one [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Las Mujeres Perdidas Parte Uno [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Mechanics: Las Mujeres Perdidas - part one [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Simply titled "Mechanics" on the first page. The story is not given the official title "Las Mujeres Perdidas" until the final page of the concluding chapter in Love & Rockets #11.
Act of Contrition Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Joey Saldaña; Señora Meza
Luba and Archie recall how they met each other as they continue their platonic liaison and become the talk of the town.
Reprinting
FlagHeartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] published August 1987
as Act of Contrition part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as Act of Contrition part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as Act of Contrition part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
Pepa and Lucy (shown with Luba on page seven, panel one), are unnamed here but will appear again in the artist's Poison River story. The panel in question is redrawn in Poison River, part seven which appeared in Love and Rockets #35.
Amor y Cohetes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Comrade 7 (splash page); Rand's Friend; Fred; Rand's Girlfriend
Penny tells Maggie how she met Rand Race.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Amor y Cohetes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Amor y Cohetes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Amor y Cohetes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
Fantagraphics Books Winter 1983-1984 Catalogue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Order info for all the publisher's output. In the second printing these two pages strictly offer Love & Rockets material for sale.
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Hopey's band La Llorona on stage.
Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Love & Rockets #6 back cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
back cover

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