Love and Rockets Bonanza! #1 - First Appearance of Henry Good, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: March 1989
Key date: March 1989
On-sale date: 1989
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $2.95; 3.95 CAD
Pages: 52

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Henry Good - 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	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez; colors: Clay McBride; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Vicente, Tonantzín Villaseñor
1	Love and Rockets Bonanza	credits, title page	1	pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo
2	Mecanicos	comic story	6	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Penny Century, Daffy Matsumoto, Yax Haxley, Hopey Glass, Maggie Chascarillo, Duke Morales, Rand Race
3	Welcome to Palomar	illustration	1	pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez
4	Chelo's Burden	comic story	6	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Jesús Ángel, Chelo, Israel Díaz, Manuel, Pipo Jimenez, Satch, Soledad Marquez, Vicente, Carmen
5	24T	comic story	1	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Penny Century, H. R. Costigan
6	Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...	comic story	1	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Daffy Matsumoto, Hopey Glass, Izzy Ortiz
7	The Goat	comic story	1	script: Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Becky Snyder; The Big Girl
8	Sugar 'N' Spikes	comic story	3	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Israel Díaz, Jesús Ángel, Pipo Jimenez, Toco, Vicente
9	The Adventures of Maggie the Mechanic	comic story	2	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Yax Haxley, Maggie Chascarillo, Duke Morales, Rand Race
10	The Many Faces of "Big" Danny Chesterfield	comic story	4	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	"Big" Danny Chesterfield
11	Hey Hopey	comic story	3	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Joey Glass, Hopey Glass
12	A Little Story...	comic story	6	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Jesús Ángel, Chelo, Satch, Israel Díaz, Martín el Loco, Pipo Jimenez, Tipin' Tipin', Vicente
13	Those Wild and Mixed Up Locas	comic story	4	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Penny Century, H. R. Costigan, Hopey Glass, Maggie Chascarillo, Rand Race
14	Space Case	comic story	4	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Guadalupe, Luba, Maricela, Ofelia Beltran, Theo
15	A Date With Hopey	comic story	4	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Henry Good First, Hopey Glass, Maggie Chascarillo
16	-	comic story	1	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Hopey Glass, Maggie Chascarillo
17	Coloring Page	activity	1	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Penny Century, Maggie Chascarillo
18	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo
19	-	illustration	1	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez; colors: Clay McBride; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Jaime Cover	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Before you buy

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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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