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Issue: Love and Rockets #38
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1992
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.25 CAD
$2.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Recommended for Mature Readers
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: 1st printing: April 1992
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #10 [2nd printings & up] published June 1999
as Love & Rockets #38 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Love and Rockets X - Part Eight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Unnamed Bodybuilder Girl; Mrs. Malvina Wilson
I report you to immigration you no work right, Maricela girl!
Kristen takes Maricela to her place ostensibly so her dad can help with her immigration papers. However, when she sees her dad in the pool talking intimately with Igor she gets highly upset. Carl stands in front of Malvina's house, the elderly black woman he assaulted. Junior Brooks and Erf'Quake see him, but Ben and Charlie whisk him away. The trio kidnap E. T., taking him to a secluded location, intending to kill him. Carl orders Ben to kill him in order to prove he's not a rat, but he refuses. Charlie volunteers to do it and takes the gun. But when Carl exhorts him he kills him instead.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #10 published July 1993Love and Rockets X
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #10 [First printing] published July 1993
as Love and Rockets X (A Rock and Roll Headache) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Starts on inside front cover with indicia at bottom.
Poison River - Part Ten

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Cuca; Ruben (death); Javier (death); Señor Chugay; Juan; Mama
Whoop!
With Peter incapacitated due to his stroke, a power vacuum has opened as people jostle for power including Cilingis and Flaco. Armando Jose, Luba's newborn baby who was taken in a deal Peter had, has died of heart failure. Fermin continues his killing spree in defense of any threat to his son as he strangles Javier for taking that baby. But after insulting Peter's-ex Isobel for being trans, Peter temporarily comes to and kills him. Blas becomes more dominant as he takes Peter to safety. Gorgo ensures that Luba safely makes it to her cousin Ofelia's place.
Reprinting
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)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Part ten of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria, and her cousin Ofelia.

The Ruben character shown here is a different one than the one seen in chapter two of the story. The latter is a left wing friend of Ofelia Beltran.
Wig Wam Bam, Part 6

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Araceli; Crystal; Dudu; Marco's Unnamed Significant Other
I'm sorry we didn't hear you get in last night, Ms. Tucker, but welcome home anyway...
Nan Tucker has arrived as she and Hopey chat and get to know each other. Izzy visits the newly pregnant Penny as well as Marco, but her seemingly dormant obsession with Maggie and Hopey is triggered after each visit. Hopey finds out Nan has a fetish for women cosplaying as little girls.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #11 published January 1994
as Wig Wam Bam part 6 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #11 [unnamed variant] published March 1994
as Wig Wam Bam (part six) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Wig Wam Bam part 6 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as Wig Wam Bam part 6 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
This is the first appearance of Marco, who used to be known as Monica, the lead singer of Hopey's band La Llorona.

Crystal, the baby cosplayer employed by Nan is not to be confused with Crystal, friend of Tonta's half-sister Muñeca in Jaime's more recent stories.

Penny is pregnant with her third baby, this time with her bodyguard Pete. Her first baby was with Rand Race but was aborted. The second one was conceived with Antonio "Tex" Mctear.
Wig Wam Bam, Part 7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama
Crystal; Barb
I wanna thank Cole Younger for letting me come along on this tour....
Back on the East Coast, Izzy visits Terry and then her old friend Barb, whose hairstyle now resembles Maggie's. But her Maggie and Hopey obsession is triggered each time when the subject of Hopey's face being on milk cartons comes up. Finally caving in to her obsession, she meets Hopey at a bar but then gets into an argument with her over Maggie. Hopey spies on Nan playing out her mommy caring for baby daughter fetish with Crystal. Doyle leaves town for good now that his romantic attachments have evaporated and Bumper's night club, his home away from home has closed.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #11 published January 1994
as Wig Wam Bam part 7 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #11 [unnamed variant] published March 1994
as Wig Wam Bam (part seven) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #[nn] published September 2004
as Wig Wam Bam part 7 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[5] published November 2007
as Wig Wam Bam part 7 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
Ends on inside back cover.

Doyle's next story appearance will be a decade later in Love and Rockets v2#4 (Summer 2002).
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Reprinting
FlagLove and Rockets: The Covers #[nn] published March 2013
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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