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Issue: Penny Century #1
Publication Date: December 1997
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 07447090125911
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ? (Gary Groth)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; black and white interiors
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (Jaime Hernandez)
Subject Matter
drama, fantasy, humorous, romantic
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Love & Rockets Stuff

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
In house ad for Love And Rockets books and items. Indicia at bottom.
Penny Century

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Dolly Parton; Frida Kahlo; Homeless Guy; Guy on Hollywood Blvd.; Young Chica
I can't concentrate!
Ray has moved to Los Angeles where he doesn't know anyone and doesn't fit in. He soliloquizes about the past, his sporadic sexual encounters with Penny Century and how he had fallen for her, plus his failed relationships with Danita Lincoln and Margarita Chascarrillo.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Penny Century [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagStrapazin #62 published January 2001
as Penny Century [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as Penny Century [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as Penny Century [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
Ray's place of residence from here on out is Los Angeles, where he'll stay up to the present day. Among the city landmarks seen in the background are Loop's Cafe, Hollywood Book and Poster and others.

Page six references the time Penny invited Ray and Maggie over to her mansion, which was in Love and Rockets vol. 1 #30 in "Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun."
Fire Water

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy, humorous, western
Two cowboys get drunk, stagger home through the desert, and encounter a devil.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Fire Water [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Two-pager without text. Might more properly be called surreal.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Gee, Maggie. It doesn't sound to me like life is so tough there in Los.
Maggie is working for Negra's mom, doing paperwork, and chauffering Negra.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
La Pantera Negra

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Bubbles; Sparky
That's stupid!
Norma (Negra's mom) catches Negra roaming the streets with her girlfriends, and takes her back home in a temper. Norma then talks things over with Maggie.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as La Pantera Negra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as La Pantera Negra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as La Pantera Negra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Hopey Hop Sacks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
drama, romantic
You're kidding
Hopey, in the bath, tells Maggie over the phone about Guy Goforth asking her out.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Hopey Hop Sacks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as Hopey Hop Sacks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as Hopey Hop Sacks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
childrens, drama, fantasy
To Be Announced
! So, that's what the inside of the Earth looks like.
Child discovers what the inside of the earth looks like.
Reprinting
FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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