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Issue: Love and Rockets #21
Publication Date: July 1987
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Issues: #21 of 53 Issues (74 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Recommended for mature readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.40 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for mature readers
Content Items: 12 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: May 1987.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Luba done Cubist-style.
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #8 [1st Edition] published December 1989
as Love & Rockets #21 front cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Includes contents and credits for the issue.

Accompanied by two small-size panels, one from page eight of Gilbert's Human Diastrophism Part One story and one from page eight of Jaime's Vida Loca: The Death of Speedy Ortiz (Part One) story.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Letters
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Pages: 1.27
Disclose Notes: Letters span 0.6 page on inside front cover, and 0.67 page on page 10.

Features letters of comment from Stephen Farenza (West Plains, NY), L. Dietrich Adonis (Philadelphia, PA), P.J. (Security, CO), Jeff Killian (Thoughts and Images' business manager, Seattle, WA), Joel Stelt (Grand Rapids, MI), Chris Duffy (Winchester MA), and Charles Van Meter (Upstate, South Carolina).
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Bala

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A wordless sixteen-panel sequence of a man running into the fourth wall.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 published October 1991
as Bala [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 [1st Printing] published October 1991
as Bala [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as Bala [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Jerusalem Crickets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Local Scene Makers; Straight Edge Teen
First Line: Somewhere about two thousand miles from home...
Synopsis: Hopey's band La Llorona, on tour about two thousand miles from home, play a gig and then spend the night in a motel. They get kicked off another gig but then find one opening for a speed metal band.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #7 [1st Edition] published November 1989
as Jerusalem Crickets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Jerusalem Crickets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as Jerusalem Crickets [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Letters

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: Letters page continued plus small L&R promo
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Love and Rockets
First Line: Next
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Next issue blurb and advertisement for: Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #17, #18, #19 and #20; Mechanics (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 and #2: The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 and #2; Anything Goes (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) #2 and #4.
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Human Diastrophism

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[4] [unnamed variant] published July 2007
as Human Diastrophism [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title page for this story. Page 1 of the full 13-page story in this issue.
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Human Diastrophism Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Tomaso's unnamed river victim; Aldo Munkres (corpse, behind the scenes); Debbie (single-panel); Bruce (single-panel)
First Line: M-mom... It's not that late...
Synopsis: Luba yells at Maricela for arriving home late. Heraclio appraises Humberto's drawings and introduces him to fine artists. Archie offers to marry Luba but she's been married to someone else for fourteen years. Tonantzin's paranoid political obsessions are worrying her sister and friends as they discover she has a letter from the jailed Geraldo Mejia. Ofelia admonishes Luba strongly after she yells at Maricela again. Martin sees some human blood and broken glasses next to a bed in Señor Munkres's house. Luba goes to an archeological dig to see Chango but comes across her ex-lover Khamo.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #8 [1st Edition] published December 1989
as Human Diastrophism [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The two white kids who call each other "dude" are not given names until their appearance in the "Love and Rockets X" story that runs in issues #31-39.

Pages 2-13 (numbered as such) of the 13-page story in this issue.
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Vida Loca: The Death of Speedy Ortiz (Part One)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Chivita; Gorro; Carlos; Dairytown boys
First Line: So, hey, Maggie. When is your sister coming for another visit?
Synopsis: Ray mistakenly thinks that Speedy is involved with Maggie after he sees them talking. Speedy, mad that he isn't able to reach Esther, makes love to Blanca as revenge, making her think he's in love with her. Esther, back in town for the weekend, goes to meet Speedy. 'Litos and friends respond to some Dairytown boys driving through their turf by going to their turf in kind. Ray finally hears from Maggie that she isn't involved with Speedy.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #7 [1st Edition] published November 1989
as Vida Loca: The Death of Speedy Ortiz (part one) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Vida Loca: The Death of Speedy Ortiz [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as Vida Loca – The Death of Speedy Ortiz (part one) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 11
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Comics Journal
First Line: Jim Shooter Under Oath:
Synopsis: Promo ad for The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series). A quote from Jim Shooter's deposition in the Michael Fleisher/TCJ trial is used. Inside back cover.
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Pages: 1
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Jerusalem Crickets / Vida Loca

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #7 [1st Edition] published November 1989
as Jerusalem Crickets / Vida Loca [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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