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Issue: Love and Rockets #30
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Title:
Variant: 1st Printing
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1989
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.75 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: June 1989
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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 Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Nature Boy

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
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FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
 
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Wraparound cover.
Love & Rockets no. 30 July 1989

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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Includes indicia.
Printed on inside front cover.
Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun ... and Counting

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Emil; Dee; The Doctor
Maggie.
Thanks to Penny's machinations, Maggie reunites with Hopey for the first time in over two years. But Penny's dream of them staying together and getting married meets harsh reality as the duo hang out in H. R. Costigan's East Coast mansion and get caught up on their lives, including Hopey's recent pregnancy and miscarriage. And where does Ray fit into the picture?
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 [1st Printing] published October 1991
as Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #9 published October 1991
as Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[3] published July 2007
as Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Hopey and Maggie's first time together since issue nineteen's The Secrets of Life and Death: Vol. 5 story (January 1987).

Maya's name isn't revealed until the following issue.

Third mention of Spooky the Smokey so far in the series.
Poison River Chapter 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Jose; Gomez; Señora #1; Señor; Señora #2; Alicia
Mar... Luba... Luba.!
Destitute, Eduardo begs for money in the big city, walking many miles while carrying Luba until reaching Hilda and Ofelia's place in Isleta. Over a year later, feeling haunted by Maria, he leaves, shovel in hand, presumably to find better work. He's found dead on a beach, possibly murdered. Ofelia, Ruben and Gina head out of town with baby Luba. Ofelia gets off the car to take care of Luba's soiled diapers, then hears gunshots. Attacked by unknown assailants for their leftism, Ofelia's friends are brutally raped and murdered, while she is shot multiples times and buried alive. She survives.
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FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #12 [unnamed variant] published September 1994
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #12 published September 1994
as Poison River [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Part two of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria, her father Eduardo and her cousin Ofelia.

In part eight of the story, it's made clear in a conversation between Salas and Garza that the murders were a clear attempt to send a message to leftists in the North.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Love and Rockets
Love for sale
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Advertisement for: the Love and Rockets 1989 Calendar; Love and Rockets 33" x 24" poster; Love and Rockets Sketchbook; Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1; The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #126; Anything Goes! (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 [Second Printing], #26, #27, #28, #29, #30; 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); Love and Rockets (Titan, 1987 series); Mechanics (Titan, 1988 series); Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series); Duck Feet: A Heartbreak Soup Graphic Novel (Titan, 1988 series).
Inside back cover and preceding page.

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