Love and Rockets #1

(1981)

["Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the first issue of "Love and Rockets" "] (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Gilbert Hernandez; Jaime Hernandez; Mario Hernandez

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Introduction letter from Los Bros Hernandez and indicia page. Printed on inside front cover.

BEM (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Gilbert Hernandez

Pencils:

Gilbert Hernandez

Inks:

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters:

Gilbert Hernandez

Characters:

Luba (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 Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[7] - Amor y Cohetes (March 2008)

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 (Table of Contents: 3)

Maggie, Race, Hopey / comic story / 5.75 pages (report information)

Script:

Jaime Hernandez

Pencils:

Jaime Hernandez

Inks:

Jaime Hernandez

Letters:

Jaime Hernandez

Characters:

Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Penny Century (first appearance for all); Yax Haxley; 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 and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)

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 (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 0.25 page (report information)

Script:

Jaime Hernandez

Pencils:

Jaime Hernandez

Inks:

Jaime Hernandez

Letters:

Jaime Hernandez

Reprints:

• in Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
which is reprinted
• in Love and Rockets Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)

Indexer Notes

Story is entirely in German.

How To Kill A (By Isabel Ruebens) (Table of Contents: 5)

Izzy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Jaime Hernandez

Pencils:

Jaime Hernandez

Inks:

Jaime Hernandez

Letters:

Jaime Hernandez

Characters:

Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens] (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 Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[1] - Maggie the Mechanic (January 2007)
• in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)

Music For Monsters (Table of Contents: 6)

Bang and Inez / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Gilbert Hernandez

Pencils:

Gilbert Hernandez

Inks:

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters:

Gilbert Hernandez

Characters:

Bang; Inez (first appearance of both)

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 Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[7] - Amor y Cohetes (March 2008)

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 (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

Gilbert Hernandez

Pencils:

Gilbert Hernandez

Inks:

Gilbert Hernandez

Letters:

Gilbert Hernandez

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 Library (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) #[7] - Amor y Cohetes (March 2008)

Indexer Notes

Part Two.

ads (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

Gilbert Hernandez (signed)

Inks:

Gilbert Hernandez (signed)

Letters:

Gilbert Hernandez (signed)

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] (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils:

Jaime Hernandez (signed)

Inks:

Jaime Hernandez (signed)

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)

Indexer Notes

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