Love and Rockets #15 - First Appearance of Enero Garcia, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series)
Issue: #15
Publication date: January 1986
Key date: January 1986
On-sale date: October 1, 1985
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.25; 3.15 CAD
Pages: 36
Rating: Recommended for Mature Readers

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Enero Garcia - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Correo - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Febrero Garcia - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Miercoles Garcia - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Rena	cover	1	pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; colors: Jaime Hernandez, Wim Jr.; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Rena Titañon
1	Letters	letters page	2	letters: Linda M. Gorell
2	Locas at the Beach	comic story	8	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo, Correo First, Terry Downe, Enero Garcia First, Febrero Garcia First, Miercoles Garcia First, Hopey Glass, Zero Gravity, Daffy Matsumoto, Izzy Ortiz, Speedy Ortiz, Monica Miranda Zandinski
3	Holidays in the Sun	comic story	14	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Jesús Ángel, Laura Gomez, Luba, Toco, Tonantzín Villaseñor
4	At Home With Rick Geary	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Rick Geary; inks: Rick Geary
5	Some Guys, You Just Don't Want to Mess With	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
6	Queen Rena: Life at 34	comic story	8	script: Jaime; pencils: Jaime; inks: Jaime; letters: Jaime	Bernie Carbo, Bull Marie, Duke Morales, Rena Titañon
7	Do You Know Where It's At?!?	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Second Printing	price 2.75 USD; 3.25 CAD

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Heartbreak Soup ISBN 1-56097-783-3	2007	On eBay ›
House of Raging Women ISBN 0930193695	1988	On eBay ›
Locas #[nn] ISBN 1-56097-611-X; 978-1-56097-611-0	2004	On eBay ›
Maggie the Mechanic ISBN 978-1-56097-784-1	2007	On eBay ›
The Reticent Heart and Other Stories #[nn] ISBN 0-930193-65-2	1988	On eBay ›
The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. ISBN 1-56097-851-1	2007	On eBay ›
Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (A Love and Rockets Book) #[nn] ISBN 1-56097-539-3; 978-1-56097-539-7	2003	On eBay ›
The Lost Women and Other Stories #[nn] ISBN 9780930193669; 0930193660	1988	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #14 [Second Printing]18 of 53#16 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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