(1981)
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Fair Warning: This Comic Contains Raw Language, Violence and Nudity
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez
- Brand
- Hernandez Production
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Gilbert Hernandez (signed as 'Bert); Jaime Hernandez (signed as Jaime); Mario Hernandez (signed as Mario) (Mario)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the first issue of "Love and Rockets"
Indexer Notes
Introduction letter from Los Bros Hernandez and indicia page. Printed on inside front cover.
BEM [Chapter 1]
BEM / comic story / 8 pages
- Characters
- Babe (Leonore's Unnamed Friend); BEM; Leonore; Luba (first appearance); Paulo P. Piñata; Castle Radium; Harold Penis; Bob Zitz; Bobo; Peter; Echo; Roxanne
- Reprints
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in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted - in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 (October 1985)
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989) which is reprinted
-
in Comic Art (Comic Art, 1984 series) #82 (August 1991) - in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[7] - Amor y Cohetes (March 2008)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[1] - No. 1 - No. 5 (2022)
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Indexer Notes
The initial "prototype" version of Love and Rockets had the saga of BEM split into two parts, which Gilbert expanded into five when Fantagraphics commissioned Los Bros Hernandez for a regular series.
This was the absolute first published debut of Luba. Her appearance here is much different from her depictions in later issues; thus, fandom and Gilbert generally agree that this is not the same character and her introduction here can't fit into the Palomar/Luba in America continuity.
Mechan-X
Locas / comic story / 5.75 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Penny Century (first appearance); Maggie Chascarillo (first appearance); Hopey Glass (first appearance); Yax Haxley (first appearance); Duke Morales (first appearance); Rand Race (first appearance); Tall Tracker
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 (October 1985)
- in Love & Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) (August 1987)
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989)
- in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[1] - No. 1 - No. 5 (2022)
-
in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
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Indexer Notes
The title of this story implies that it is somehow written "By Izzy Ruebens". Izzy is another character in the Locas/Hoppers mythos, so it is unclear how she can be seen to write a story, as she isn't seen breaking any fourth wall at any point in this or future stories. She is also featured in another story later on in this same issue. This is one of the strange continuity problems that crop up in both Jaime and Gilbert's early stories, and is largely left unexplained.
La Chota
La Chota / comic story / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Las dixel fret im bondor!
- Characters
- La Chota
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 (October 1985)
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989)
- in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[1] - No. 1 - No. 5 (2022)
- in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Story is entirely in German.
How To Kill A (By Isabel Ruebens)
Izzy / comic story / 4 pages
- Characters
- Izzy (featured) (first appearance)
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 (October 1985)
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989)
- in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[1] - No. 1 - No. 5 (2022)
- in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
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Music for Monsters
Bang and Inez / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Bang (first appearance); Inez (first appearance); Vertigo; Vivik; The Pimple / El Creepo Perverto; Woman with Convertible
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 (October 1985)
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989)
- in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[7] - Amor y Cohetes (March 2008)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[1] - No. 1 - No. 5 (2022)
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Indexer Notes
The title for this story is not listed anywhere in the story itself in this "prototype" version, but it can be deduced from the cover, using the process of elimination. In the full 68-page version, it is clearly denoted as the title of this sequence.
BEM [Chapter 2]
BEM / comic story / 8 pages
- Characters
- Babe (Leonore's Unnamed Friend); Leonore; Castle Radium; The Victim; Cha Cha Charlie
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 (October 1985)
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 - Music for Mechanics (February 1989) which is reprinted
- in Comic Art (Comic Art, 1984 series) #82 (August 1991)
- in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[7] - Amor y Cohetes (March 2008)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[1] - No. 1 - No. 5 (2022)
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Indexer Notes
Part Two.
ads
comic story / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gilbert Hernandez (signed)
- Inks
- Gilbert Hernandez (signed)
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez (signed)
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This page is comprised entirely of parodies of the ads have been historically found in comic books since their inception. Readers are offered impossible wonders such as a "real live dinosaur", "exploding underwear", "robot slave kit", "mini-hand blaster", "changeling pills", "man-eating toilet", "death glasses", a "real LIVE person trapped in crystal ball", a book that will enable those who order it to "rule the world", and many more satiric takes on the traditional mail-in offers advertised in comics for decades, complete with an obviously fake address to send payment to in "Berlin, Russia" with two zip codes -- one is a standard 5-digit US format postal code, and one is longer, but crossed out.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as JH)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (signed as JH)
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (October 1987)
- in The Complete Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #15 - Hernandez Satyricon (August 1997)
- in Love and Rockets: The Covers (Fantagraphics, 2013 series) (March 2013)
- in Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics, 2022 series) #[8] - From Rockets to Love 1981 - 1996 (2022)
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Indexer Notes
Back cover
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0.
[no title indexed]
BEM -
1.
["Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the first issue of "Love and Rockets""]
-
2.
BEM [Chapter 1]
BEM -
3.
Mechan-X
Locas -
4.
La Chota
La Chota -
5.
How To Kill A (By Isabel Ruebens)
Izzy -
6.
Music for Monsters
Bang and Inez -
7.
BEM [Chapter 2]
BEM -
8.
ads
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9.
[no title indexed]
- Sss Fmtoc
- Jim Van Dore
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Steven Samuels
- Ramon Schenk
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