Heavy Metal August 1982 August 1982 Magazine Back Issue

Cover - \"Voltomat\" - Thomas Warkentin
p.04-09 - \"Dossier\" - Lou Stathis and Daphne Davis
p.11-19 - \"Freak Show\" - Bruce Jones and Berni Wrightson
p.20-24 - \"The Voyage Of Those Forgotten\" - P. Christin and Enki Bilal
p.25-32 - \"The Ape\" - Silverio Pisu and Milo Manara
p.33 - \"Amusing Stories Section\" - Carlo Moggia
p.34-37 - \"A Day In The Log Of The City of Alger\" - Jean-Pierre Dionnet and Enki Bilal
p.38-45 - \"Right Smack In The Middle Of A Cold War\" - Fromental and Floch
p.46-49 - \"Classics From The Intergalactica Museum\" - Michael Gross
p.50 - \"The Final Tap\" - Caza
p.51-58 - \"The Story Of The Flaxen-Haired Princess, The Beautiful Doe, And The Big Ol\' Kittycat\" - Nicole Claveloux
p.59-60 - \"The Bugle\" - Bill Plympton
p.61-64 - \"Suburban Love Story\" - Gerry Capelle
p.65-69 - \"See Spot Run\" - Dan Steffan
p.71 - \"Chain Mail\"
p.73-76 - \"Den II\" - Richard Corben
p.77 - \"I\'m Age: Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face\" - Jeff Jones
p.78-81 - \"The Further Adventures Of John Difool: The Incal Light\" - Jodorowsky and Mœbius
p.82-85 - \"Zora\" - Fernando Fernandez
p.86-91 - \"Yragael\" - Druillet
p.94-95 - \"Rock Operetta\" - Rod Kierkegaard Jr.
p.96 - \"The Bus: Tiny Town\" - Paul Kirchner
Back Cover - \"\"Just A Bit Off The Top, Mack!\"\" - Christopher Mark Brennan

• Inside...Berni Wrightson's Freak Show
• The Adult Illustrated Fantasy Magazine

Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French science-fantasy magazine Métal Hurlant which had debuted December 1974. The French title translates literally as "Howling Metal."

When Mogel licensed the American version, he chose to rename it, and Heavy Metal began in the U.S. with the April 1977 issue as a glossy, full-color monthly. Initially, it displayed translations of graphic stories originally published in Métal Hurlant, including work by Enki Bilal, Jean Giraud (also known as Moebius), Philippe Druillet, Milo Manara and Philippe Caza. The magazine later ran Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore's ultra-violent RanXerox. Since the color pages had already been shot in France, the budget to reproduce them in the U.S. version was greatly reduced.

Films
In 1981, an animated feature film was adapted from several of the magazine's serials. Made on a budget of USD$9,300,000, under production for three years, Heavy Metal featured animated segments from several different animation houses with each doing a single story segment. Another house animated the frame story which tied all the disparate stories together. Like the magazine, the movie featured a great deal of nudity and graphic violence, though not to the degree seen in the magazine. For example, in its Den segment, it did not display the blatant male genitalia of its print counterpart. The film featured such SCTV talents as John Candy, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman. It did reasonably well in its theatrical release and later gained something of a cult status, partially because a problem with music rights resulted in a delay of many years before the film became available on video.

Another animated feature film alternatively called Heavy Metal 2000 and Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.², with a budget of $15,000,000, was released in 2000. This direct-to-video release was not based on stories from the magazine, but instead was based on The Melting Pot, a graphic novel written by Kevin Eastman and drawn by artist Simon Bisley, who based the appearance of the female protagonist after nude model and B-movie actress Julie Strain, the wife of Kevin Eastman. Strain later lent her vocal talents to the movie, portraying the character modelled after her likeness. It spawned a video game in 2000, Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.². An independent video game was also spawned in 2001, Heavy Metal: Geomatrix.