Love and Rockets 1982 #12 - back issue - $6.00

The trio harvesting babosas.

Tonantz?n, Theo and Diana gather babosas, the slug native to Palomar, at the beach.

On her sixteenth birthday, Rocky enters a portal to outer space located in her niece Needra's backyard. With Fumble alongside, she goes to the planet Blotos where Fumble is kidnapped by robot hater Rongo Ragney. Rongo is defeated by Cheetah Torpedah and the duo make it back to the niece's backyard. Five months later, after having entered the portal several times the duo make one more trip but the portal closes suddenly leaving them stranded in space permanently.

It's double flashback time as Heraclio recalls a time years earlier when after a night out on the town he and his friends gave Luba a ride back. He then recalls an even earlier time when he had a sexual encounter with the new-in-town Luba when he was fifteen years old. The result of that secret encounter being Luba's daughter Guadalupe.

1st printing: May 1985 On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #70.

• Letters - Letters of comment from M.T. Lunsford (McDonough, GA), Ian Smyth (Westmidlands, England), Amy Fairweather, John MacLeod (Guelph, ON), Monica Sharp (Holtiville, CA), Albert Godot (Porter, TX), Patrick Perry (Boulder, CO), Paolo Cantatore (New York, NY), E. Hope Shaw (Brighton, MA), Lisa Pace, and Andrew Tashan. Inside front and inside back covers. In the second printing, appears inside front cover and on interior page 31.
• The Reticent Heart - In the Ecce Homo story in issue ten the Pipo character states the deceased Manuel is the father of Guadalupe but that was because Heraclio and Luba's liaison was kept secret, unlike the one with Manuel.
• - In the first printing, this is an ad for Comics Journal #100.
• Love and Rockets Graphitti Designs T-Shirt - In the first printing, this is an ad for the Graphitti Designs Love and Rockets T-shirt. With apparently brand-new illustrations from the artists.
• Maggie's a Mechanic. She Can Fix Anything. - Back cover. In the first printing this is an ad for the first issue of the publisher's Mechanics mini-series by Jaime (1985 series). In the second printing this is for the Love and Rockets tenth anniversary tour and t-shirt.