Love and Rockets 1982 #37 - back issue - $6.00

Doyle has an argument with Lily and they break up. The infatuated Nami follows him and sneaks in where he's staying after he steps out. Doyle comes back and finds her asleep. She wakes up and they make love with her taking initiative. Danita is forced back to her mom's place after finding Bumper's strip club abruptly shuttered. David shows other Hoppers kids a trash bag full of the milk carton sides with Hopey's image that Izzy had tossed out. The popular Hopey wants to leave Nan Tucker's place before she wears out her welcome, but Jewel convinces her to stay so she can meet Nan.

Maria is caught between the jealous rage of both Fermin and Garza, with the former leaving physical marks on her and the latter kicking her out. Peter enlists the dogged Se?or Pito to find Luba, and he does so, fulfilling his mission, then dying. Maria leaves Peter, whereabouts unknown. Gorgo tracks her down, but then lets her leave to California. Peter falls hard for pre-sex change Isobel, but then marries Luba after acting on Pito's information. Catching up to the early seventies, the postpartum Luba wakes up, still in the hospital, and finds Peter next to her, babbling and catatonic.

The Love and Rockets band has broken up with all four members thinking they have dibs on that name for their respective future projects. South of the border, the bloodied and heartbroken Steve arrives back in Palomar, getting a rough welcome at first but then a much warmer one.

• - left to right: Lalo, Elias, Laura, Ojos, Danita, David, Danita's mom
• - Inside front cover. Table of contents, production credits, indicia and an illustration.
• Wig Wam Bam, part five - An occasional recurring feature in Locas shown here and in future stories is Ray Dominguez daydreaming with Dolly Parton, Wonder Woman and Penny Century showing up for at least a few panels.
• Poison River -- Part: Nine - Part nine of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria. This chapter takes place over twelve years from the late fifties to early seventies, fleshing out various details from earlier segments. Pages numbered ninety-four to one hundred and three. Ruben appears in the background in the second panel of seventh page of the story (page twenty-three). A different character from the Ruben seen in the early chapters of Poison River.
• Love and Rockets X - Part Seven - The first story set in Palomar in almost four years, since issue number twenty-six. Changes of note since then- Luba is now mayor and pregnant again; Tito, a newborn previously is now ready to begin school; Sergio is fully grown; Khamo survived trying to save Tonantzin from her self-immolation but has severe burn scars. Palomar is seen next in issue thirty-nine but only in a handful of panels. The next full Palomar story is the Be Bop a Luba one-pager in Ten Years of Love and Rockets (September 1992). Pages numbered thirty-seven to forty-two.
• - Back cover.