Love and Rockets 1982 #23 - back issue - $6.00

Chelo announces there's a serial killer in town. Tonantzin is jailed temporarily for her skimpy "native style" outfit. Geraldo denies to Pipo that his letters caused Tonantzin's downward spiral. Archie starts working in the same excavation job that Khamo has. Luba yells abusively at Maricela again. Sven's corpse pops out of a box in a trash dump during a mass slaughter of monkeys. Tonantzin kicks out Carmen after a nasty argument with her. Pipo sleeps with Khamo. Luba has an argument with Heraclio at a bar. She leaves and then seduces Humberto. The alcalde and his wife are found murdered.

Advertisement for The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series).

Licha looks for Esther and Speedy in an effort to stop the Hoppers/Dairytown war. Maggie finally finds Esther who wants to see him one last time. Blanca and her gang friends confront Esther about Speedy but Maggie steps in her place and takes the blows. Licha finds out. 'Litos is shot by a Dairytown gangbanger and winds up losing an eye. Blanca is brought in to the emergency room, unconscious and in a stretcher. In a decision that would come to haunt her, Maggie shuts Speedy down after he states his love and that she's his last hope. He's later found dead by the side of the road.

Promo advertisement for other Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) and Love & Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series). Inside back cover.

1st printing: September 1987.

• Love & Lists - A listing of Jaime's and Gilbert's favorite albums that month. Inside front cover.
• - Includes contents, credits and indicia. Inside front cover.
• - Quotes from Robert Crumb used to advertise The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye (Fantagraphics, 1984 series), The Nemo Bookshelf Little Orphan Annie (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #1 - 1931, Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1986 series), and further advertisements for Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) and The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series).
• - Advertisement for the book R. Crumb Checklist, from Boatner Norton Press.
• - Advertisement for the signed and numbered British versions of Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup, and Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets.
• - Advertisement for The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series).
• - Order form for the books and magazines advertised in the preceding six pages.
• Wild Wild Wrestling - Presented in the style of a cover of a wrestling magazine. Flipped back cover.