Love and Rockets #2 - First Appearance of Daffy Matsumoto, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics, 1982 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: Spring 1983
Key date: April 1983
On-sale date: 1983-04
Indicia publisher: CX Comics
Price: $2.95; 3.50 CAD
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Daffy Matsumoto - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rena Titañon - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Errata Stigmata - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Zero Gravity - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Bernie Carbo - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Tony Belle - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Tse Tse - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jaime; inks: Jaime; colors: Peppy White	Penny Century, Maggie Chascarillo
1	Comics Can Be Art and Here Are Some of the Reasons Why	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Gary Groth; letters: Kim Thompson
2	Mechanics	comic story	40	script: Jaime Hernandez; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez; letters: Jaime Hernandez	Tony Belle First, Bernie Carbo First, Penny Century, Daffy Matsumoto First, Joey Glass, Vicki Glori, Zero Gravity First, Yax Haxley, Hopey Glass, Izzy Ortiz, Maggie Chascarillo, Duke Morales, Speedy Ortiz, Rand Race
3	Radio Zero	comic story	10	script: Mario Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Errata Stigmata First
4	-	comic story	10	script: Mario Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Mario Hernandez; inks: Mario Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Vodor; Xed; Zezbar [Zizbah]; Tony; Noalda; Kurdik; King Svedor of Marzipan; Katie; Cluzia; Mosca; Don
5	¿Music for Monsters? II	comic story	4	script: Gilbert Hernandez; pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Bang, Inez
6	Comics Can Be Art and Here Are Some of the Reasons Why [Continued]	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Gary Groth; pencils: Jaime Hernandez; inks: Jaime Hernandez	Maggie Chascarillo
7	-	illustration	1	pencils: Gilbert Hernandez; inks: Gilbert Hernandez; colors: Tom Mason; letters: Gilbert Hernandez	Monster X

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Second Printing	price 3.95 USD; 4.75 CAD
Third Printing	price 4.95 USD; 6.95 CAD

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Mechanics #1	1985	On eBay ›
Mechanics #2	1985	On eBay ›
Mechanics #3	1985	On eBay ›
Music for Mechanics ISBN 0-930193-13-X	1989	On eBay ›
Amor y Cohetes ISBN 978-1-56097-926-5	2008	On eBay ›
Locas #[nn] ISBN 1-56097-611-X; 978-1-56097-611-0	2004	On eBay ›
Maggie the Mechanic ISBN 978-1-56097-784-1	2007	On eBay ›
Heartbreak Soup and Other Stories #[nn] ISBN 978-0930193348; 0930193342	1987	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #13 of 53#3 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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