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Issue: Love and Rockets #12
Publication Date: July 1985
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Issues: #12 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: 04/30/1985
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: 1st printing: May 1985
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #70.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In13
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Title Page
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Assets1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The trio harvesting babosas.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Issue: FlagPox Special #9/1986 published ?
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Love & Rockets #12 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from M.T. Lunsford (McDonough, GA), Ian Smyth (Westmidlands, England), Amy Fairweather, John MacLeod (Guelph, ON), Monica Sharp (Holtiville, CA), Albert Godot (Porter, TX), Patrick Perry (Boulder, CO), Paolo Cantatore (New York, NY), E. Hope Shaw (Brighton, MA), Lisa Pace, and Andrew Tashan.


Inside front and inside back covers. In the second printing, appears inside front cover and on interior page 31.
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Slug Fest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous, romantic
Character(s): El Clavo
Synopsis: Tonantzín, Theo and Diana gather babosas, the slug native to Palomar, at the beach.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Slug Fest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as Slug Fest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as Slug Fest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as Slug Fest [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Rocky's Birthday Surprise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rhoda; Needra; Mr. Bakers; Rongo Ragney
Synopsis: On her sixteenth birthday, Rocky enters a portal to outer space located in her niece Needra's backyard. With Fumble alongside, she goes to the planet Blotos where Fumble is kidnapped by robot hater Rongo Ragney. Rongo is defeated by Cheetah Torpedah and the duo make it back to the niece's backyard. Five months later, after having entered the portal several times the duo make one more trip but the portal closes suddenly leaving them stranded in space permanently.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as Rocky's Birthday Surprise [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as Rocky's Birthday Surprise [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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The Reticent Heart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Synopsis: It's double flashback time as Heraclio recalls a time years earlier when after a night out on the town he and his friends gave Luba a ride back. He then recalls an even earlier time when he had a sexual encounter with the new-in-town Luba when he was fifteen years old. The result of that secret encounter being Luba's daughter Guadalupe.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #4 [First Printing] published January 1988
as The Reticent Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as The Reticent Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as The Reticent Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as The Reticent Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: In the Ecce Homo story in issue ten the Pipo character states the deceased Manuel is the father of Guadalupe but that was because Heraclio and Luba's liaison was kept secret, unlike the one with Manuel.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In the first printing, this is an ad for Comics Journal #100.
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Love and Rockets Graphitti Designs T-Shirt

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In the first printing, this is an ad for the Graphitti Designs Love and Rockets T-shirt. With apparently brand-new illustrations from the artists.
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Maggie's a Mechanic. She Can Fix Anything.

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. In the first printing this is an ad for the first issue of the publisher's Mechanics mini-series by Jaime (1985 series). In the second printing this is for the Love and Rockets tenth anniversary tour and t-shirt.

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