Love and Rockets 1982 #17 - back issue - $6.00

Joey and Doyle go off to get Joey's Ape Sex record, but each person they contact has lent it to someone else. Maggie is resting due to her poorly healed childhood ankle injury. Izzy is getting evicted leaving Hopey scrambling to find a place for her and Maggie, but Terry offers to take them in. Izzy is moving in to the supposed haunted house she inherited from the deceased Mrs. Galindo.

Vicente and his friend, broke, down and out and unemployed, maintain their friendship while dealing with the harsh indignities of daily life.

Rocky recalls how her relentless wanderlust for the stars came about, how the temporary space portals she encountered allowed her to fulfill that passion and how she came to be permanently stranded in the planet Mako Mato in this series finale.

Luba has fallen into a deep hole but is too embarrassed to accept help, preferring to find a way out herself. A bruja has arrived in town. Sheriff Chelo nervously indulges her request to get her feet tended to, hoping she'll leave quickly. Unfortunately, Boots steals the bruja's leather sack which contains a baby skull. She throws it over a rooftop after which it falls into the hole where Luba is, hitting her head. The bruja accuses Chelo of stealing it and stares at her intensely.

1st printing: May 1986.

• - from left: Daffy, Maggie, Hopey, Terry, Izzy
• - Include indicia. Inside front cover.
• - Letters span 0.67 page on inside front cover and 0.33 page on page 33. Includes letters from Emily Devenport, Michael O'Brien, J.L. Paine, Coby Stites, Robert Toren, Patrick J. Lee and Jeffrey Sommer.
• The Way Things're Going - Saturnino's name won't be stated until the "Bullnecks and Bracelets" story in issue nineteen.
• Duck Feet (Part One) - The title refers to what the children in the story think La Bruja has when she removes her shoes.
• - Advertisement for Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #15, #16, and the upcoming #18; as well as for Mechanics (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 and #2, and The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1 and #2.
• - Advertisement for the following comics and magazines about comics: Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics, 1985 series); Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series); Lloyd Llewellyn (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Threat (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); The Adventures of Captain Jack (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Critters (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Journey (Fantagraphics, 1985 series); The Doomsday Squad (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Anything Goes (Fantagraphics, 1986 series; The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series); Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphics, 1981 series); Nemo: The Classic Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 19983 series). Printed on inside back cover and preceding page.
• - Advertisement for The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye (Fantagraphics, 1984 series). Back cover