# Is "Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories" by Jaime Hernandez a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books, 2004) is identified by: Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, Fantagraphics, 2004 (first Fantagraphics edition September 2004), ISBN 1-56097-611-X, about 700 pages, bound in black boards with embossed figures of Maggie and Hopey. Stories originally appeared in Love and Rockets (drawn 1981 to 1996); the 2004 omnibus is the first single-volume collected edition (first thus).

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, Fantagraphics, 2004 (first Fantagraphics edition September 2004), ISBN 1-56097-611-X, about 700 pages, bound in black boards with embossed figures of Maggie and Hopey
- A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia
- Correct publisher/imprint: Fantagraphics Books

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Jaime Hernandez |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
| Year | 2004 |
| True first | world edition |
| Format | Comic / graphic novel |
| Key point | Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, Fantagraphics, 2004 (first Fantagraphics edition September 2004), ISBN 1-56097-611-X, about 700… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, Fantagraphics, 2004 (first Fantagraphics edition September 2004), ISBN 1-56097-611-X, about 700 pages, bound in black boards with embossed figures of Maggie and Hopey. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia.

## Is this the true first?
Stories originally appeared in Love and Rockets (drawn 1981 to 1996); the 2004 omnibus is the first single-volume collected edition (first thus).

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club edition.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories* by Jaime Hernandez a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/locas-the-maggie-and-hopey-stories
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.