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Issue: Love and Rockets #9
Publication Date: November 1984
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Issues: #9 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: 09/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 CAD
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended For Mature Readers
Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: September 1984. On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #56.
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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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Title Page
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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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Contents / Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Greetings, and welcome to Love and Rocket #9.
Synopsis: Letters of comment from The Reet (Fairbanks, AK), Rich Sheinaus (Brooklyn, New York), Charles Van Meter (Greer, SC), S.J. Hatakeyama (Florissant, MO), Dave Reitzes (Wilmington, DE), Mark Wheatley (Baltimore, MD), Karen Weiss (Washington, DC) and Fran Gerheim (San Francisco, CA).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: First page is inside front cover, second page is p33.
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Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas Part Four

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): General Matapolas; Benso; Nurse; Man in Tunnel [Luthor]
First Line: Zobenina Hospital in Chepan...
Synopsis: Maggie and Rena escaped last issue's warehouse explosion by diving down a pit that connects to some underground sewer tunnels. They attempt to escape the tunnels while everyone assumes they are dead.
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 four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Las Mujeres Perdidas part four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Parte Cuatro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Mechanics: Las Mujeres Perdidas - part four [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: 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 Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
First Line: Jesus... Jesus began to yell... He began yelling and throwing things around the house like... like a maniac... crazy...
Synopsis: The men of the village retrieve Jesus from the wilderness, who ran off because he thought he killed his baby.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHeartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] published August 1987
as The Laughing Sun part 2 [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 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as The Laughing Sun part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Signed 'May-July '84'
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The Adventures of Rocky and Her Robot Fumble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Shermy Eggy (voice only); Cop
First Line: Oh boy! Dat's me!
Synopsis: The wanderlust-filled Rocky runs away on a boat down the river. She eventually comes home after getting sick of being away.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #6 published May 1989
as The Adventures of Rocky and her Robot Fumble [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #6 [First Printing] published May 1989
as The Adventures of Rocky and her Robot Fumble [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as The Adventures of Rocky and Her Robot Fumble [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: You can now purchase original art by Jaime, Gilbert, and Mario Hernandez from Love and Rockets directly from the publisher.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: In the first printing the first promo page is order info for Hernandez bros. original art plus back issues and subscriptions for the series. The second promo page promotes The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye (Fantagraphics, 1984 series) reprint collection.

In the second printing these two pages are strictly promo for Love & Rockets material.

Inside back cover and preceding page.
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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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