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Issue: Heavy Metal Magazine #9
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
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Publisher: FlagHeavy Metal
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Indicia Publisher: HM Communications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893658701
Price: $1.50 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
27 (15 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Ted White
Disclose Notes: This issue introduces as regular features several short text articles on movies, comics, science fiction, & music. These share pages both with each other and other features, so the page count totals are estimates. UPC/EAN as printed is missing a 2 before the last two digits. This occurs on early HMs until about 1987.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8 in. x 10.5 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: squarebound, later issues saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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"Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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fantasy
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Miscellaneous
1
Picture split between front and back covers. It is not a wrap-around image.
Contents

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fantasy
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Contents page with illustration spanning to next page/editorial page.
...Thirty-four...

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Editorial text with illustration spanning previous page/contents page.
Eno

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Muzick
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Miscellaneous
1
The Multimedia Album

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
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non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
typeset
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non-fiction
Comix
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Miscellaneous
1.5
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
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science fiction
SF
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Miscellaneous
2.33
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Flix
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Miscellaneous
1
Part 1 of a Stephen King interview. Art is the paperback cover for The Stand.
The Story of Rowlf

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
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Miscellaneous
12
Part 3 of 3
The Pause That Refreshes

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Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
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Miscellaneous
8
Womb with a View

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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fantasy
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Miscellaneous
2
Exit/In

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
fantasy
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Miscellaneous
8
Paradise Lost

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
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Miscellaneous
5
Beginning a serialized adaptation of the Milton novel. No part 2 has appeared yet.
Space Race 3000

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Stellar Journals
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Miscellaneous
4
Zooks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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science fiction
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Miscellaneous
2
Part 4 of 7. Part 5 is in the March issue. Printed sideways.
The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell

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Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
Gallery Section: New Books
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Miscellaneous
3
This and the next two "features" are actually the component parts of a single feature displaying artwork from three forthcoming books (divided for indexing clarity). Writing credits are for feature scripts; they also carry editorial comments (by White?).
1941, the Illustrated Story

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Subject Matter
fantasy
Gallery Section: New Books
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Miscellaneous
2
Colorvision

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
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fantasy
Gallery Section: New Books
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Miscellaneous
2
Food for the Children

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
6
Reprinted version is without last 2 story pages.
Alien Comix Presents:

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science fiction
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Miscellaneous
3
Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

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science fiction
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Miscellaneous
5
The Bus

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Subject Matter
fantasy
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Wide Awake

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science fiction
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Two half pages on two adjoining pages.
Rock Opera

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
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Miscellaneous
1.33
Long serialized feature that runs through 12/85 (the final monthly issue, and it probably ended only for that reason). Two, 2/3 adjoining pages.
The Bus

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
fantasy
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Hive

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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fantasy
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Miscellaneous
7
"Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Second half of image from front cover with a list of this issue's contents.

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