Love and Rockets 1982 #9 - back issue - $9.00
Letters of comment from The Reet (Fairbanks, AK), Rich Sheinaus (Brooklyn, New York), Charles Van Meter (Greer, SC), S.J. Hatakeyama (Florissant, MO), Dave Reitzes (Wilmington, DE), Mark Wheatley (Baltimore, MD), Karen Weiss (Washington, DC) and Fran Gerheim (San Francisco, CA).
Maggie and Rena escaped last issue's warehouse explosion by diving down a pit that connects to some underground sewer tunnels. They attempt to escape the tunnels while everyone assumes they are dead.
The men of the village retrieve Jesus from the wilderness, who ran off because he thought he killed his baby.
The wanderlust-filled Rocky runs away on a boat down the river. She eventually comes home after getting sick of being away.
1st printing: September 1984. On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #56.
- Contents / Letters - First page is inside front cover, second page is p33.
- Mechanics / Las Mujeres Perdidas Part Four - The story is not given the title "Las Mujeres Perdidas" until the final page of the concluding chapter in Love & Rockets #11.
- The Laughing Sun Part 2 - Signed 'May-July '84'
- - In the first printing the first promo page is order info for Hernandez bros. original art plus back issues and subscriptions for the series. The second promo page promotes The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye (Fantagraphics, 1984 series) reprint collection. In the second printing these two pages are strictly promo for Love & Rockets material. Inside back cover and preceding page.
- - Back cover.
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