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Issue: Love and Rockets #23
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Recommended for mature readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: 1
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.40 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for mature readers
Content Items: 13 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: September 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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FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
FlagHeartbreak Soup #3 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #8 [1st Edition] published December 1989
as Love & Rockets #23 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Love & Lists

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In which the Bros list their top fifteen favorite albums of all time (this month anyway!).
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A listing of Jaime's and Gilbert's favorite albums that month.
Inside front cover.
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Includes contents, credits and indicia.
Inside front cover.
Human Diastrophism, Part Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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drama, romantic
Debbie; Bruce (Debbie's unnamed companion); La Li; Sven Anderson (corpse); Marlena Bernal (Alcalde's wife) (corpse)
In Part Two: Luba and Khamo reunite in Palomar after two years and enjoy heavy duty boffing...
Chelo announces there's a serial killer in town. Tonantzin is jailed temporarily for her skimpy "native style" outfit. Geraldo denies to Pipo that his letters caused Tonantzin's downward spiral. Archie starts working in the same excavation job that Khamo has. Luba yells abusively at Maricela again. Sven's corpse pops out of a box in a trash dump during a mass slaughter of monkeys. Tonantzin kicks out Carmen after a nasty argument with her. Pipo sleeps with Khamo. Luba has an argument with Heraclio at a bar. She leaves and then seduces Humberto. The alcalde and his wife are found murdered.
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FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #8 [1st Edition] published December 1989
as Human Diastrophism [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Complete Crumb Comics
A publishing event!
Advertisement for The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series).
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Fantagraphics Books
Robert Crumb on:
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Quotes from Robert Crumb used to advertise The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye (Fantagraphics, 1984 series), The Nemo Bookshelf Little Orphan Annie (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #1 - 1931, Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1986 series), and further advertisements for Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) and The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series).
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R. Crumb Checklist
A painstakingly researched reference guide to Robert Crumb's work, his characters, collaborations, and accolades from others.
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Advertisement for the book R. Crumb Checklist, from Boatner Norton Press.
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Fantagraphics Books
Special From England!!
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Advertisement for the signed and numbered British versions of Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup, and Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets.
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The Complete Love and Rockets
Hernandez Heaven
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Advertisement for The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series).
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Fantagraphics Books
O.K.! I'm impressed already!
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Order form for the books and magazines advertised in the preceding six pages.
Vida Loca, part 3: The Death of Speedy Ortiz

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Rojo (behind the scenes); Blanca's gang friends; Izzy's cousins; Carlos; Gorro; Grandfather Carranza; Cop #1; Cop #2 [Jerry]

Final page flashback: "Big Eddie" Ortiz (single-panel silhouette); Big Eddie's Dairytown Wife (single-panel silhouette); Louis; "Leadside"
See, you're talking about the old widows! Nowadays, we as a group do things to help the barrio, not hurt it. We put on dances, car washes...
Licha looks for Esther and Speedy in an effort to stop the Hoppers/Dairytown war. Maggie finally finds Esther who wants to see him one last time. Blanca and her gang friends confront Esther about Speedy but Maggie steps in her place and takes the blows. Licha finds out. 'Litos is shot by a Dairytown gangbanger and winds up losing an eye. Blanca is brought in to the emergency room, unconscious and in a stretcher. In a decision that would come to haunt her, Maggie shuts Speedy down after he states his love and that she's his last hope. He's later found dead by the side of the road.
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FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #7 [1st Edition] published November 1989
as Vida Loca, part 3 (The Death of Speedy Ortiz) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Vida Loca, part 3: The Death of Speedy Ortiz [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as Vida Loca, part 3 – The Death of Speedy Ortiz [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Love and Rockets
Fantagraphic Books proudly announces the American publication of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez's first solo albums!
Promo advertisement for other Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) and Love & Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series). Inside back cover.
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Wild Wild Wrestling

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
sports
Rena Titañon
Master Executioner
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FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
FlagCentrifugal Bumble-Puppy #3 published November 1987
as Wild Wild Wrestling [Advertisement on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #7 [1st Edition] published November 1989
as Wild Wild Wrestling [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Presented in the style of a cover of a wrestling magazine.
Flipped back cover.

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