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Issue: Love and Rockets #14
Publication Date: November 1985
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Issues: #14 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1985
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.15 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Mature Readers
Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: October 1985. 2nd printing: February 1993

The second printing has a redrawn cover and a back cover illustration reprint rather than an ad therefore it's listed separately. Also includes a half-page explanation for that front cover change.
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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 In16
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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An American in Palomar

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as An American in Palomar [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Letters of comment from Linda Dunn, Carboro NC; Andrew Littlefield, Sidcup England; Charles Van Meter; Donald Odita, Columbus OH
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Page 1 is inside front cover, page 2 is inside back cover
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An American in Palomar, Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Beth
Synopsis: The citizens of Palomar find out that they are being used by Howard and deal with it accordingly, leading to his complete humiliation.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as An American in Palomar, part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as An American in Palomar, part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as An American in Palomar, part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as An American in Palomar, part two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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Locas en la Cabeza

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Carlos ('Litos and Speedy's friend)
First Line: I don't wanna go to work!
Synopsis: Izzy crashes her old car into Spookey the Smokey's wall after promising to give it to Maggie. Maggie then gets Speedy to take her to Maddog's, as Hopey's band La Llorona gets ready to play a gig there.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEpix #2/1987 (34) published February 1987
as Locas [Story on Interior Page(s)]"Locas en las Cabezas"
In Content Item: FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Title from the table of contents. Second mention of Spooky the Smokey, the yet-to-be-seen eccentric who lives by himself on Cooper Road.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: In the first printing, these are house ads for the first "Love and Rockets" trade paperback collection and "Any Similarity To Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental"
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The Little Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Joe Van Nuys; Little Monster [India Chala]; Mad Mala; Dino; Crusher Gaines; Dick (TV interviewer)
Synopsis: Rena reminisces about India Chala, a former wrestling partner with a tragic back story, after hearing that she has passed.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as The Little Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as The Little Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as La Monstruito [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as The Little Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Llook our for...Lloyd Llewellyn

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A promo for Lloyd Llewellyn (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) #1.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. In the second printing, this reprints the cover to the Spanish magazine El Vibora #149.

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