Love and Rockets 1982 #7 - reader copy - $10.00

Letters of comment from Roger Weddall (Fitzroy, Australia); Richard Bruning (Madison, WI); Jua; Pete Scott (Harworth, Great Britain); James Laws Sebastian (New York, NY); Charles Van Meter; Jon Turnbow (Olympia, WA); Aaron Headly (Chester Springs, PA); Benno Schmidt (Brookline, MA). Also includes a postcard from Paul Mavrides and an cartoon from Riedel on the third page.

Maggie and Race, hired by Dr. Beaky, arrive in Rio Frio for a job repairing robots on the island of Chepan.

Luba is in San Fideo in an attempt to get a part to repair her movie house's projector. Meanwhile, unbeknowst to her, her bath house is part rubble because the water heater blew up. By chance she meets up with Archie again and their cooled relationship heats up and turns physical.

Speedy recounts to Carlos Izzy's evolution from gang leader to straight-laced college student to dark neighborhood eccentric.

Guadalupe tells Doralis a ghost story about a deceased bruja and a tree.

1st printing: May 1984.

• Letters - Starts on the inside front cover and continues (on pgs. 30-31) right before the promo ads at the end of the issue.
• Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas, part two - This story has had multiple titles over the years. The title "Las Mujeres Perdidas" wasn't used until the final page of the concluding chapter in Love & Rockets #11. Later reprints have titled this "The Lost Women" and most recently "Mechanics" once again.
• A Commitment to Excellence and Originality: Fantagraphics Books Spring 1984 Catalogue - In the first printing this a promo/catalog for the whole line of Fantagraphics books and periodicals. In the second printing this is strictly order info for various Love & Rockets products.
• - back cover