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Issue: Love and Rockets #15
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Variant: 1st Printing, $2.25 Cover Price
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.15 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: December 1985.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Rena

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

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Letters
Letters of comment from Rolf Rotvel, Holbjerg Denmark; Monic Sharp; Gary Dunaier; Otto Schweppe, Greebrae CA; Steve Dovas, New York City
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Miscellaneous
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Page 1 is inside front cover; page 2 is inside back cover.

The inside front cover includes a sample Luba panel (from Act of Contrition, part three) in Swedish from the magazine POX.

Besides additional letters, the inside back cover also includes a order form ad for the series. In the first printing, the ad includes a small-size image for the following issue's cover plus subscription info. In the second printing, the ad announces the reprinting of the first fifteen issues in the series plus L&R Bonanza.
Locas at the Beach

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Mister Lopez [Tio Lencho Lopez]; Mrs. Garcia; Carlos; Tia Rosalba
Maggie, when I get married, we're going to own a yacht and sail to the islands every weekend.
Hopey coaxes Maggie into getting Mister Lopez's fruit truck fixed, notwithstanding the leering comments from the Garcia brothers. Later on, Maggie meets the newly arrived Correo who shows some interest in her. Terry dresses down her Missiles of October bandmates and then tries to break up Hopey and Maggie by talking trash about the latter.
Reprinting
FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as Locas at the Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as Locas at the Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Locas at the Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[1] published January 2007
as Locas at the Beach [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Untitled here. The table of contents title is ""At the Beach" A Locas story". Wouldn't officially be titled "Locas at the Beach" until the trade paperback collections started coming out.
Holidays in the Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Obregon; Dromundo (silhouette on hill); Carlos; Marcos; Laura and Jesus's unnamed baby (flashback)
Jesus, in an island prison, fantasizes constantly about the women in his life all the while dealing with the reality of his incarceration. A follow-up to The Laughing Sun story from issues eight and nine.
Reprinting
FlagThe Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as Holidays in the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as Holidays in the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagPalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] published August 2003
as Holidays in the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[2] published January 2007
as Holidays in the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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On page six it's stated that it's been a dozen years since Jesus first set eyes on Luba, meaning that amount of time has passed since the series started.
At Home With Rick Geary

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
A house ad for the publisher's "At Home With Rick Geary" book. In the second printing this page and the next one is an ad for Love & Rockets merchandise.
Some Guys, You Just Don't Want to Mess With

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
A house ad for Threat! (Fantagraphics, 1986 series)
Queen Rena: Life at 34

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Sharkey Horwitz; Rosie [Rose Ramelli]
A flashback story taking place during Rena's younger days. Rena, on foot, chases Sharkey in the desert for stealing and beating up Rosie. They're met with law enforcement officer Bull Marie, who puts Sharkey in her paddy wagon and punches out Rena, leaving her stranded, unconscious. She's found by Duke and Bernie, the latter who later takes her out on a date. Later on, Rena and Rosie confront Sharkey near the Mexican border after finding out he's been released from jail.
Reprinting
FlagThe Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] published May 1988
as Queen Rena Life at 34 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #5 [1st Edition] published September 1988
as Queen Rena Life at 34 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #1 published May 2006
as Reina Rena: La Vida a los 34 años [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as Queen Rena Life at 34 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Takes place a few years after the previous issue's "The Little Monster" story.
Do You Know Where It's At?!?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover house ad for Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics). In the second printing the ad instead is for Ho Che Anderson's "King" series.

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