The Complete Love & Rockets
#1
[First Edition]
(October 1985)
Fantagraphics,
1985 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 9.95 USD; 13.50 CAD
- Pages
- 160
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Brand
- ?
- ISBN
-
0-930193-13-X
- Editing
- Gary Groth (editor)
Issue Notes
The word “Complete” is not part of the published title of this first printing. It became part of the title with later volumes in the series, and with later printings of this book.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Characters
- Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
Indexer Notes
The cover title is “Love and Rockets,” with the words “Book One” appearing above and to the left of the logo. The spine title is “Love and Rockets Book One.”
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Love and Rockets
credits, title page / 1 page
- Script
- Jaime Hernandez
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
- Letters
- Jaime Hernandez (credited)
Indexer Notes
Title page does not include a book or volume number.
Includes a reproduction of a panel from "Mechanics", page 106.
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Copyright page identifies the edition, and records the month and year of publication.
Contents
table of contents / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (credited); Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (credited); Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Errata Stigmata
Indexer Notes
Table of contents omits “La Chota,” “How to Kill a by Isabel Ruebens,” and “Meanwhile . . . Back at the Ranch”; and collapses the multi-part “BEM” and “Cover Gallery” into single content items.
Two character illustrations.
A Habitable World: The Brothers Hernandez
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 4 pages
- Script
- Carter Scholz (credited); Jaime Hernandez (credited); Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez (credited); Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez (credited); Gilbert Hernandez (credited)
- Letters
- Jaime Hernandez (credited); Gilbert Hernandez (credited); typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Comics were pretty much invented in America.
- Synopsis
- Carter Scholz talks about the importance of Love and Rockets to comics as a major achievement.
Indexer Notes
Illustrated with various panels from the comics.
Mechan-X
comic story / 7.85 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Goody ... time for work ...
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Rand Race; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley; Tall Tracker; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
- Synopsis
- Maggie is hired to work with the pro-solar mechanic Rand Race. Tall Tracker attacks Race to get him to rebuild a robot army but Maggie saves the day.
- Reprints
-
from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
-
La Chota
comic story / 0.15 page
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
-
Locas Tambien
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thirty-five dollars and a six pack to my name...
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Joey Glass; Speedy Ortiz [Eulalio Ortiz]
- Synopsis
- The story of how Maggie and Hopey first met.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
How to Kill a... (by Isabel Ruebens)
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
-
BEM [Part One]
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Meanwhile, the monster moved across the sea at its usual speed with the ever present whirlyboat close behind ...
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Leonore [Lenore]; Leonore's boyfriend; Suzy Niznick; Harold Penis; Bob Zitz; Bobo; Luba; Peter; Castle Radium; Echo;
Roxanne; Paulo P. Piñata - Synopsis
- BEM has escaped and is on a murderous rampage, pursued by detective Castle Radium.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Leonore's name is spelled Lenore in parts 4 and 5.
BEM 2
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Something ... is wrong.
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Leonore [Lenore]; Leonore's boyfriend; Castle Radium; Cha Cha Charlie
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
-
BEM 3
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- N-no, really, Luba ... I-I think I'm sick ...
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Luba; Peter; Leonore's boyfriend; Patrice; Roxanne; Paulo P. Piñata; giant monster
- Synopsis
- Six individuals try to ensnare the giant monster, who reveals that its intelligence has been increased by BEM.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
BEM [Part Four]
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What..? Oh. I'm still here ...
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Leonore [Lenore]; Castle Radium; giant monster [as Paulo P. Piñata]; Luba
- Synopsis
- The giant monster has taken over the body of Paulo P. Piñata, and is indulging in the delights of a festival in San Sassafrass. Leonore and Castle Radium also go to San Sassafras in search of BEM.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
BEM [Part Five]
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- God, I hadn't run like that since the eighth grade ...
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Leonore [Lenore]; giant monster [as Paulo P. Piñata]; Luba; Castle Radium; BEM; Leonore's boyfriend
- Synopsis
- Luba and Castle Radium fight the monster that has taken the body of Paulo P. Piñata. Leonore reveals the secret of BEM to her boyfriend.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
Barrio Huerta
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Rosalba!
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Rosalba; Lencho; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley
- Synopsis
- The first 3 panels are in Spanish. A factory worker, coming home at the end of his shift, is told that the baby died that morning. The last panel is in English - Rand and Yax have discovered a grave stone with a cherub.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
. . . Penny Century, You're Fired!
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wow! Atoma is single-handedly holding off those alien attackers!
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; H. R. Costigan
- Synopsis
- All Penny Century wants is to become a superhero.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
Music for Monsters I
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let's go, Vertigo! Giddyap!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Bang Bang; Inez Perez; Vertigo; Vivik; El Creepo Perverto; Woman with Convertible
- Synopsis
- Bang and Inez in the desert photographing monsters.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Source of the title “Music for Monsters I” is the table of contents.
Mecanicos
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon, Maggot! You've been in there for two hours!
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Rand Race; Duke Morales; Yax Haxley; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]
- Synopsis
- Maggie becomes Rand's assistant.
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 (March 1989)
-
in Locas (Ediciones La Cúpula, 2006 series) #1 (Mayo 2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Original story first published in this volume.
Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #1]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jaime Hernandez
- Inks
- Jaime Hernandez
- Colors
- Peppy White (color separations)
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 [1st printing] (September 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents.
Cover Gallery: Love 'y' Rockets
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Inks
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Colors
- Peppy White (color separations)
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 (September 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents. Reprints back cover of Love and Rockets #1 (Fall 1982).
Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #2]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983)
-
Indexer Notes
Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents.
Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #2 back]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Inks
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Colors
- Tom Mason (color separations)
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983)
-
Indexer Notes
Source of the title “Cover Gallery” is the table of contents. Reprints back cover of Love and Rockets #2 (Spring 1983).
Mechanics
comic story / 40 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Hopey, Surprise! It's me!
- Genre
- drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Maggie [Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo]; Rand Race; Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Penny Century [Beatriz Garcia]; Duke Morales; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]; Terry [Theresa Leeanne Downe]; Yax Haxley; Ben Ruben; Tse Tse [Rosa Colores Arriaga Banuelos]; Rena Titañon; Pedero Rodriguez Sanjo; Sancho Sanjo; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Bernie Carbo; Doctor Numura Mumura; Speedy Ortiz [Eulalio Ortiz]; Tiger Rosa; Maria Bravo (cameo); Vicki Glori [Victoria Chascarrillo]
- Synopsis
- Maggie and Rand Race are sent to fix a downed ship in a volatile jungle country where dinosaurs still live and the leader is an oppressive dictator.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983)
-
Indexer Notes
Forty-page story is presented discontinuously over 41 pages with the addition a new one-page story between pages 30 and 31.
Meanwhile . . . Back at the Ranch
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ouch! Take it easy, Izzy!
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Hopey [Esperanza Leticia Glass]; Izzy [Isabel Ortiz Ruebens]; Daffy [Daphne Matsumoto]
- Synopsis
- Hopey gets a homemade tattoo while discussing Maggie's trip with Izzy and Daffy.
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 (March 1989)
-
Indexer Notes
This item appears between pages 30 and 31 of “Mechanics.” Original story first published in this volume.
Radio Zero
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Mario Hernandez (credited) (plot germ); Gilbert Hernandez (credited) (physical evidence)
- Pencils
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Inks
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the case of Errata Stigmata
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Characters
- Errata Stigmata (intro); Bubbles; Valentia
- Synopsis
- Errata Stigmata and her friend Bubbles are involved in an embassy bombing.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983)
-
¿Music for Monsters? II
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One day Bang woke up and decided she was more than fed up with the current state of what was passing for, ahem, 'science-fiction'.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Bang Bang; Inez Perez; Killiaak monsters; Doreena
- Synopsis
- Bang and Inez stop 5 Killiaak monsters from stealing a deadly disease.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983)
-
Indexer Notes
Source of the title suffix “II” is the table of contents.
Somewhere in California . . .
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Mario Hernandez; Gilbert Hernandez
- Pencils
- Mario Hernandez
- Inks
- Mario Hernandez
- Letters
- Gilbert Hernandez
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There they are! The Polaris Apartments! Go around to the alley way, now!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Vodor; Xed; Zezbar [Zizbah]; Tony; Noalda; King Svedor of Marzipan; Katie; Cluzia; Mosca
- Synopsis
- Aliens, the deposed King of Marzipan and drug dealers all are at the Polaris Apartments.
- Reprints
- from Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #2 (Spring 1983)
-
A Little Story . . .
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I know where you're going!
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Pipo; Martin; Satch [Sakahaftewa]; Chelo; Vicente; Israel; Jesus
- Synopsis
- The children of Palomar climb on the stone idols outside town.
- Reprints
- in Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1 (March 1989)
-
Indexer Notes
Original story first published in this volume.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Love and Rockets
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3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
Contents
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5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
A Habitable World: The Brothers Hernandez
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7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
Mechan-X
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9.
La Chota
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10.
Locas Tambien
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11.
How to Kill a... (by Isabel Ruebens)
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12.
BEM [Part One]
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13.
BEM 2
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14.
BEM 3
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15.
BEM [Part Four]
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16.
BEM [Part Five]
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17.
Barrio Huerta
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18.
. . . Penny Century, You're Fired!
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19.
Music for Monsters I
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20.
Mecanicos
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21.
Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #1]
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22.
Cover Gallery: Love 'y' Rockets
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23.
Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #2]
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24.
Cover Gallery: [Love and Rockets #2 back]
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25.
Mechanics
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26.
Meanwhile . . . Back at the Ranch
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27.
Radio Zero
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28.
¿Music for Monsters? II
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29.
Somewhere in California . . .
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30.
A Little Story . . .
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31.
[no title indexed]
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32.
[no title indexed]
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