Love and Rockets #16 - First Appearance of Sandy Bobo, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 2001 series)
Issue: #16
Publication date: Spring 2006
Key date: April 26, 2006
On-sale date: April 26, 2006
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $4.50
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Mikey Varan - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo, Ray Dominguez, Rose "Angel" Rivera, Vivian "Frogmouth" Solis
1	Fine to Very Fine	comic story	6	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo, Ray Dominguez, Milena Loznika, Rose "Angel" Rivera, Vivian "Frogmouth" Solis, Mike Varan, Mikey Varan First
2	Down in Heaven	comic story	6	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Sandy Bobo First, Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez, Guadalupe, Jimmy Reyna, Dora "Killer" Rivera, Hector Rivera
3	Down in Heaven 2	comic story	2	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Sandy Bobo First, Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez, Blackie Okamoto, Guadalupe, Jimmy Reyna, Dora "Killer" Rivera, Hector Rivera
4	Down in Heaven 3	comic story	3	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Guadalupe, Jimmy Reyna, Dora "Killer" Rivera, Hector Rivera
5	Down in Heaven 4	comic story	3	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Sandy Bobo First, Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez, Blackie Okamoto, Guadalupe, Jimmy Reyna, Dora "Killer" Rivera, Hector Rivera, Venus
6	Day by Day with Hopey: “Sunday is Put That Gun Down Day”	comic story	8	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo, Hopey Glass, Rosie
7	Love and Rockets Issue Number 16 Spring 2006	letters page	2	pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez
9	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1.5	letters: typeset
10	Comics Country	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
11	-	illustration	1	pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez	Guadalupe

Plus 0.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Maggie, Hopey & Ray ISBN 1606991566; 978-1606991565	2009	On eBay ›
Luba #[nn] ISBN 978-1-56097-960-9	2009	On eBay ›
The Education of Hopey Glass ISBN 978-1-56097-939-5	2008	On eBay ›
Luba: Three Daughters ISBN 978-1-56097-769-8; 1-56097-769-8	2006	On eBay ›
Esperanza ISBN 978-1-60699-449-8	2011	On eBay ›
Three Sisters ISBN 978-1-68396-114-7	2018	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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

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