Comic Title: El Diablo #9
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1990
On Sale Date: March 20, 1990 Shipping Date March 20, 1990
Source: Previews, #13

Shipping Date March 20, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #177

Shipping Date March 22, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #15

Copyright Date March 30, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Brian Michael Augustyn

Title: "Love Is Hell"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
El Diablo (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Gerard Jones
Penciller: Mike Parobeck
Inker: John Nyberg
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Eric Kachelhofer

Feature Character(s)

• El Diablo (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Chuy Salinas (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Virginia Dix (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Los Diablos (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Hector Enriquez (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Yolanda Ybarra (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Curtis DeVore (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Jesse Vega (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Artemio Villareal (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Father Francisco Guzman (last appearance in El Diablo #7; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Benny Contreras (last appearance in El Diablo #8; no further appearances)
• Eddie Santiago (last appearance in El Diablo #8; no further appearances)
• A gang of car thieves (Rudy named; last appearance in El Diablo #8; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sylvia Contreras (last appearance in El Diablo #8; next appearance in El Diablo #10)
• Two bouncers (Jackie named; last appearance in El Diablo #8; no further appearances)
• Ray (Eddie's cousin; no further appearances)
• Eddie's parents and sister (no further appearances)
• Mrs. Ybarra and her son (Yolanda's mother and brother; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from El Diablo #8.

Synopsis:
Benny Contreras is angry with El Diablo because the hero refuses to side with Contreras in his battle with a gang of car thieves. When Benny returns home he hits his daughter for dating one of the thieves. She storms out and begs Eddie to leave with her. Eddie refuses. He wants to stay and work with the car thieves. Sylvia then goes to live with Yolanda Ybarra.

Meanwhile, El Diablo works with Los Diablos to keep Benny from killing Eddie. They search for Eddie and find him, but Benny has followed them. When both sides draw guns, Sylvia gets both sides to stop. She breaks off her relationship with Eddie, but she refuses to return home with her father. El Diablo backs her up. He advices Eddie to leave town. Benny blames El Diablo.