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Issue: Love and Rockets #8
Publication Date: September 1984
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Issues: #8 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Recommended for 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: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #52.

First printing: July 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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Indicia / Staff / Contents / Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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)
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Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas Part Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
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)]
Reprint Notes:  
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
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.
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 (A Love and Rockets Book) #[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
Disclose 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"
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On Isidro's Beach (Heartbreak Soup Theater)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
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 (A Love and Rockets Book) #[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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Letters Cont.

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.44
Disclose 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
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.56
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Heartbreak Soup

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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