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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published September 1985
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 2.25 USD
Pages 44
Editing Gary Groth
Notes 30 cents price hike with this issue. Key date is first printing date as given in indicia.

Cover Details - "Locas"

Characters Hopey; Terry; Izzy; Penny; Daffy; Maggie
Pencils Jaime Hernandez
Inks Jaime Hernandez
Colors The FBI Staff (color separations) ?

1 page letters page "Letters"

Synopsis Contains an editorial explaining the price hike.
Letters Typeset

10 page story "Locas"

Characters Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo [Maggie]; Esperanza Leticia Glass [Hopey]; Isabel Maria Ortiz Ruebens [Izzy]; Daphne Matsumoto [Daffy]; Theresa Leeanne Downe [Terry]; Beatriz Garcia [Penny]; Roy Cowboy
Synopsis Maggie and Hopey hit the thrift stores, then trail around town trying to find a new place to live. Terry is cold on the idea of putting Maggie up. Maggie heads back to Izzy's to get ready for work, and hears from Izzy how Hopey took the (misreported) news of Maggie's death in Chepan.
Genre Drama
Script Jaime Hernandez
Pencils Jaime Hernandez
Inks Jaime Hernandez

6 page Heartbreak Soup story "Boys Will Be Boys"

Characters Heraclio; Pepo; Anacleto; Luba; Chelo; Carmen; Tonantzin;
Synopsis Heraclio and Pepo try to fix newcomer Anacleto up with one of the women of Palomar.
Genre Drama; Humour
Script Gilberto Hernandez
Pencils Gilberto Hernandez
Inks Gilberto Hernandez

1 page Lloyd Llewellyn character profile "Holy Goodnight!...It's A Super-Special All-New 8-Page Bonus Lloyd Llewellyn Preview"

Characters Lloyd Llewellyn; Ernie Hoyle; Red Hoerring
Synopsis Introduction to the characters and the story that follows.
Script Daniel Clowes
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes

6 page Lloyd Llewellyn story "The Last Time I Saw Irving"

Characters Lloyd Llewellyn; Ernie Hoyle; Fatima; Irving Melvin; Albert Melvin
Synopsis Irving Melvin plays his last practical joke.
Genre Humour
Script Daniel Clowes
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Notes First appearance Lloyd Llewellyn?

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Characters Lloyd Llewellyn; Ernie Hoyle
Synopsis Promo for the new Lloyd Llewellyn comic.
Pencils Daniel Clowes
Inks Daniel Clowes
Letters Typeset

1 page story "La Tona"

Characters Rena Titanon; Tse Tse;
Genre Drama
Script Jaime Hernandez
Pencils Jaime Hernandez
Inks Jaime Hernandez

3 page Mechanics story "Young Locas"

Characters Maggie; Letty; Isabel; Harvey; Louis;
Synopsis Maggie is planning on leaving Sal's Garage because her job there is losing her friends. She forgets all about it when Harvey introduces her to her first pro solar job.
Genre Drama
Script Jaime Hernandez
Pencils Jaime Hernandez
Inks Jaime Hernandez

10 page Heartbreak Soup story "An American In Palomar, Part 1."

Characters Howard Miller; Tonantzin; Carmen; Chelo; Luba; Diana; Theo
Synopsis Howard Miller walks the streets of Palomar photographing its citizens. He has an encounter with Tonantzin, who gets the idea he can help her get noticed by Hollywood. When Theo introduces Miller to some of the ruins outside town, Miller gets lost in one of them and has an hallucinatory experience. He returns home in a shaken frame of mind and finds Tonantzin waiting for him.
Genre Drama
Script Gilberto Hernandez
Pencils Gilberto Hernandez
Inks Gilberto Hernandez

1 page advertisement

Synopsis Advert for New Age Comics #1.
Letters Typeset

2 page letters page

Synopsis Letters Page continued, with an illo from Mechanics. Contains a joint loc from Adam Philips and Kurt Busiek. Also a mention of next issues content and a subscription form.
Pencils Jaime Hernandez
Inks Jaime Hernandez
Letters Typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis In-house ad for Fantagraphics classic reprints.
Colors FBI staff (colour separations) ?
Letters Typeset