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Issue: Love and Rockets #27
Publication Date: August 1988
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Issues: #27 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: 1988
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.40 CAD
$2.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 9 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: July 1988.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Love & Rockets

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Pepper Martinez
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Printed on inside front cover. Includes a background illustration from page six of Jaime's story.
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Beep Beep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A multitude of vehicles endure a traffic jam.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 published October 1991
as Beep Beep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 [1st Printing] published October 1991
as Beep Beep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as Beep Beep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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In the Valley of the Polar Bears Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic, sports
Character(s): Bo Bunyan; Mel; Ref; Mike Rafone (Blamed Youth Singer)
First Line: How do you like that? Last week Vicki Glori went to the W.W.W. Wrestling Board with a request to insure her championship belt, but the board refused to meet with her!
Synopsis: Vicki, increasingly annoyed by Maggie's lack of gratitude, winds up firing her from her wrestling assistant position. Maggie heads to the East Coast in an effort to find Hopey but has no luck with that. She then returns to California and stays with Ray.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEpix #10/1989 (66) published October 1989
as Isbjörnarnas dal del 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]"In the Valley of the Polar Bears"
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #7 [1st Edition] published November 1989
as In the Valley of the Polar Bears, part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as In the Valley of the Polar Bears, part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as In the Valley of the Polar Bears, part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Mike's last name isn't given in the story and won't be until the final story in Love and Rockets: New Stories #8 (2016).
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Strip AIDS U.S.A.
First Line: The biggest names and biggest hearts in comics
Synopsis: Advertisement for Strip AIDS U.S.A. (Last Gasp, 1988 series).
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Pages: 1
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A Folk Tale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A non-linear wordless tale involving an older man, a teleportation sphere and possibly Satan himself.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 [1st Printing] published October 1991
as A Folk Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 published October 1991
as A Folk Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[7] published March 2008
as A Folk Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Signature on first page is "LOUP GAROU". Signature on last page is "KARL BARX". Story is credited to "Gilbert" on the inside front cover credit page.
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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): Neat Stuff
First Line: Neat neat neat back issues
Synopsis: Promo advertisement for Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10.
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Love and Rockets
First Line: Love for sale
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 [Second Printing], #24, #25, #26, #27, The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Love and Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series); The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series); Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) and The Reticent Heart and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series).
Inside back cover.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Vicki Glori; Referee
Reprinting
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 Love & Rockets #27 back cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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