Heavy Metal

[Fandango]

When one considers the longevity and importance of this title, its surprising doesn’t get more (read any) coverage on the boards:

 

Heavy Metal Magazine List

 

Thinking about going after a full run; PM me if you have any HG copies you're willing to part with for a song.

[deathlok]

Man I thought this thread was gonna be about Motley Crue or something.

 

Dang.

[Fandango]

[Sal]

When one considers the longevity and importance of this title, its surprising doesn’t get more (read any) coverage on the boards:

 

Heavy Metal Magazine List

 

Thinking about going after a full run; PM me if you have any HG copies you're willing to part with for a song.

 

define "song."

[Fandango]

as little as possible

[deathlok]

When one considers the longevity and importance of this title, its surprising doesn’t get more (read any) coverage on the boards:

 

Heavy Metal Magazine List

 

Thinking about going after a full run; PM me if you have any HG copies you're willing to part with for a song.

 

define "song."

 

Song Pronunciation Key (sông, sng)

n.

1. Music.

a. A brief composition written or adapted for singing.

b. The act or art of singing: broke into song.

2. A distinctive or characteristic sound made by an animal, such as a bird or an insect.

3. a. Poetry; verse.

b. A lyric poem or ballad.

[Forbush-Man]

Fandango,

You should be able to put together a run for relativley little, as long as you're not going for "Ubber Grades". The values are fairly low......but the magazines are filled with excellent art & stories. Best of luck on the run!

[ronm3-migration]

One of my all-time favorite magazines growing up. I have a nice little collection myself.

[Fandango]

Thanks FUELMAN, I think the general consensus is that it's a pretty easy run to complete so that suits. Ronm3, which issues do you recommend (have heard that Richard Corben's DEN was wonderfully drawn and written)?

[Jayman]

Don't forget Liberatore's Ranxerox! Great stuff, although I can't recall which issues he appeared in!

[Fandango]

Ranxerox was published in 1982 in Heavy Metal magazine.

[Sal]

any Liberatore, any Manara, any Serpieri, any Schuiten...

 

 

just buy every issue you can find from 1977 through 1988. they're pretty much all excellent. can't speak definitively for post-88 though. i personally think the sweet spot for this mag is 85-88.

 

 

1986-1988 are quarterly pubs, not monthly.

 

oh, and if you find a Spring of 88 with a lot less pages than normal, you have the Canadian version. those wacky Europeans and their openness about hardcore sexuality really made some folks nervous apparently

[Fandango]

Thanks Sal

 

oh, and if you find a Spring of 88 with a lot less pages than normal, you have the Canadian version. those wacky Europeans and their openness about hardcore sexuality really made some folks nervous apparently

 

For the sake of wackiness I think I'm going to have to go European (sure hope those missing pages aren’t sticky)!!!

[Sal]

Thanks Sal

 

oh, and if you find a Spring of 88 with a lot less pages than normal, you have the Canadian version. those wacky Europeans and their openness about hardcore sexuality really made some folks nervous apparently

 

For the sake of wackiness I think I'm going to have to go European (sure hope those missing pages aren’t sticky)!!!

 

to elaborate;

 

from the very helpful link posted above

 

There is a regular and censored version to this issue. 36000 copies had pages 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 torn out because of the Druuna story and Canadian "sex with violence" importation laws.

 

which is really too bad, because the Druuna story is very well illustrated

[Fandango]

Torn out (that is a shame) ?

[ronm3-migration]

I would buy all of the early issues. I have most of the issues from 77-81 and thats it. That was the best of the best to me but I havent read anything after that. I also have the movie special which was only given out in the theatre. Great stuff. I am going to read some tonite. Get them they are well worth the money.

[the blob]

"There is a regular and censored version to this issue. 36000 copies had pages 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 torn out because of the Druuna story and Canadian "sex with violence" importation laws."

 

Which goes to show the magazine had a pretty decent circulation (even after it had become less popular by 1988 (the heyday was '85 and earlier)) if Canada alone was sucking up 36K copies

[Timulty]

Say does anyone remember a comic, in one of the Heavy Metals that had a Star Wars/Beatles character thing going on? I remember one of the characters was Yoda Ohno.

[RedRaven]

[Bronze_Age_Fan]

Heavy Metal has always been good read.

 

The Requeim story they've been running over the last couple of years has been great...can't get enough of that story.