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Issue: Love and Rockets #14
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Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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:  
Disclose Reprinted In16
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
An American in Palomar

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

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

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Carlos ('Litos and Speedy's friend)
I don't wanna go to work!
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
FlagEpix #2/1987 (34) published February 1987
as Locas [Story on Interior Page(s)]"Locas en las Cabezas"
FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Locas en la Cabeza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
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.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
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"
The Little Monster

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

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

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