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Issue: Penny Century #2
Publication Date: March 1998
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Issues: #2 of 7 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: Fantagraphics BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 1998
Volume: none
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 07447074114503
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Brad Angell listed as Art Director.

1st printing: April 1998
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Maggie And The Zombie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Larry Deare, Bryan Norris, Michael Schmitz. Production credits, indicia and an illustration from the first panel of this issue's last Locas story.
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Penny Century

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous, romantic
First Line: Anything else been happening?
Synopsis: Penny gives Hopey a haircut in her beauty salon.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Look Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Big Eddie Ortiz (flashback); Lady
First Line: Nearly bit the head off a waitress this afternoon.
Synopsis: Ray's apartment has been burgled, which puts him in a foul mood and makes him reflect on his own teen-age misdemeanour.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Look Out [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as Look Out [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as Look Out [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Big Eddie's previous and only appearance was in the epilogue to The Death of Speedy Ortiz story, seen only in silhouette (Love and Rockets vol. 1 #23 (1987).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, fantasy, humorous
First Line: I'm just gonna have to issue you a citation...
Synopsis: Child discovers the mystery of Channel 1 whilst tuning his television.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Chiller!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): The Ghoul Man; The Twilight Zone Lady; Mr. Ugly; The Black Sabbath Lady; The Man from the Scary Newspaper; The Goon
First Line: Oh, excuse me glamorous ladies.
Synopsis: Driving back alone from Penny's place, Maggie follows Penny's advice to take the "Horror Highway" 696. She freaks herself out thinking about all the things that could possibly go wrong, and ends up breaking down in the middle of nowhere.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Chiller! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as Chiller! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as Chiller! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Ya Can't Win 'Em All

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Snowman; Cousin
First Line: Hello!
Synopsis: The snowman wants to borrow his cousin's parasol.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Ya Can't Win 'Em All [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Surreal one-pager.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Bolani
First Line: C'mon Mom
Synopsis: Negra and Norma are lounging by the pool when Norma's sometime boyfriend Bolani lets himself in. Negra goes to her room to dress a cut and later spies Norma and the creepy Bolani making love. It's implied Bolani has improper thoughts towards Negra.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, fantasy, romantic
First Line: This is so stupid, Penny. What the hell am I supposed to do when we get there?
Synopsis: Isabel is supposed to give a reading from her new book, but can't leave her house because she has grown about twenty feet high. She ends up giving the reading at home, and outs Hopey as the starter of the Ray's Liquor Store blaze.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMcSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 published January 2004
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLocas #II published June 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLove and Rockets Library #[8] published March 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Space Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, superhero
First Line: Whiskey sour.
Synopsis: Space Girl moans about her day to an alien bar-tender.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Love & Rockets #[18] published October 2000
as Space Girl [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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