Love and Rockets 1982 #30 First Printing - back issue - $6.00

Thanks to Penny's machinations, Maggie reunites with Hopey for the first time in over two years. But Penny's dream of them staying together and getting married meets harsh reality as the duo hang out in H. R. Costigan's East Coast mansion and get caught up on their lives, including Hopey's recent pregnancy and miscarriage. And where does Ray fit into the picture?

Destitute, Eduardo begs for money in the big city, walking many miles while carrying Luba until reaching Hilda and Ofelia's place in Isleta. Over a year later, feeling haunted by Maria, he leaves, shovel in hand, presumably to find better work. He's found dead on a beach, possibly murdered. Ofelia, Ruben and Gina head out of town with baby Luba. Ofelia gets off the car to take care of Luba's soiled diapers, then hears gunshots. Attacked by unknown assailants for their leftism, Ofelia's friends are brutally raped and murdered, while she is shot multiples times and buried alive. She survives.

1st printing: June 1989

• Nature Boy - Wraparound cover.
• Love & Rockets no. 30 July 1989 - Includes indicia. Printed on inside front cover.
• Ninety-Three Million Miles from the Sun ... and Counting - Hopey and Maggie's first time together since issue nineteen's The Secrets of Life and Death: Vol. 5 story (January 1987). Maya's name isn't revealed until the following issue. Third mention of Spooky the Smokey so far in the series.
• Poison River Chapter 2 - Part two of the earliest origins of Luba and her mother Maria, her father Eduardo and her cousin Ofelia. In part eight of the story, it's made clear in a conversation between Salas and Garza that the murders were a clear attempt to send a message to leftists in the North.
• - Advertisement for: the Love and Rockets 1989 Calendar; Love and Rockets 33" x 24" poster; Love and Rockets Sketchbook; Love and Rockets Bonanza! (Fantagraphics, 1989 series) #1; The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #126; Anything Goes! (Fantagraphics, 1986 series); Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series) #1 [Second Printing], #26, #27, #28, #29, #30; The Complete Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Love and Rockets: Short Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series); The Lost Women and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series); Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) and The Reticent Heart and Other Stories (Fantagraphics, 1988 series); Love and Rockets (Titan, 1987 series); Mechanics (Titan, 1988 series); Heartbreak Soup (Titan, 1987 series); Duck Feet: A Heartbreak Soup Graphic Novel (Titan, 1988 series). Inside back cover and preceding page.