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Issue: Heavy Metal Magazine #[5]

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Publication Date: August 1977

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Issues: #[5] of 330 Issues (552 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Heavy Metal

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: HM Communications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 100

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893658708

Price: $1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
26 (15 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Sean Kelly; Valerie Marchant

Notes: Barcode in entry was 0709893859708.

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Format

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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Heavy Metal Magazine #[5] [Direct]

Heavy Metal Magazine #[5] [Newsstand]

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Ziegfried

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Genres: fantasy

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Notes: Cover title revealed in the Table of Contents page.

Empire's Blueprint for Better Listening...

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Feature(s): Empire Phono Cartridge

First Line: No matter what system you own, a new Empire phono cartridge is certain to improve its performance.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Interior front cover.

Three Great Science Fiction Games

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Feature(s): SPI Games

First Line: In one big money-saving package!

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Notes: Advertising the StarForce Trilogy of games.

Contents

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Notes: Contents and credits with partial panel image from the sequence "The Green Hand" in this issue.
Includes creator copyright credits and publisher information.

Discover your seventh sense...a sense of wonder.

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Feature(s): Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction

First Line: Once upon a time there was a future...

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...Thus...

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First Line: Our mail runs heavily to unsolicited mss [sic].

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Pages: 0.67

Notes: Introductory text including Publisher subsidiary information.
Runs 2/3 page vertically.

Collector's Items

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Notes: Mail order for the first four issues of Heavy Metal now considered collector's magazines.

The Black Queen

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Genres: fantasy

First Line: Who is it?

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Pages: 4

Den

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Den

First Line: In this strange world, Neverwhere, I met a beautiful woman and we fell in love.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Part 5 of 12.

You can subscribe today.

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Writer(s): ?; John Roche (testimonial)

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First Line: Heavy Metal is fantastic! It's better than being stoned. Almost.

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Notes: Mail order subscription advertisement.

Fever

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Genres: fantasy

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Pages: 6

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Roger

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Genres: fantasy

First Line: No! I have simply ordered that he return all the energy he has squandered on his revolt against the established order!

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Pages: 8

Notes: Part 2 of 2. Part 1 appeared in the May 1977 issue.

Polonius

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Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Polonius

First Line: When Polonius decided to leave those barren lands...

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Pages: 13

Notes: Part 1 of 4.

The Green Hand

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Genres: fantasy

First Line: She lived a simple life in a dusty apartment.

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Pages: 8

Age of Ages

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: A Gothic Science-Fiction Trip to the Apocalypse

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Pages: 4

Notes: Part 4 of 5. Part 3 appeared in the June 1977 issue. Story concludes in the February 1978 issue.

Here's Your Ticket to Rock & Roll

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Feature(s): Circus Magazine

First Line: If rock & roll is your music, Circus is your magazine.

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Our Own Little Mardi Gras

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: Space War Blues is finally going to be published.

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Pages: 4.67

Notes: Excerpt from the novel "Space War Blues" (copyright 1972 by Richard A. Lupoff), published by Dell Books.
Story continued on page 96 of this issue.

The Coincidence

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: Alright then, don't! It's your tough luck, old man!

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Pages: 3

The Long Tomorrow Part 2

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: I tailed the guy who'd just tried to snuff me up the anti-grave shutes to the surface.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Part 2 of 2.

Hamilton Potemkine

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: Well now, Hamilton Potemkine, space castaway, finds himself farting around, stuck on Phonge II, a planet lost at the end of the end of everything.

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Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): 1996

First Line: Mmm... This stile turnz me onduyu!

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World Apart: The Golden City

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Genres: fantasy

First Line: The continent of North and South World...a land arid and consumed by evil.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Part 3 of 5.

Package For You, Missus Jones

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Genres: fantasy

First Line: Now...wait a minute, Mr. Jones. It's not...it's just that...

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Pages: 7

Binders for Heavy Metal are coming

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First Line: Beautiful vinyl binders, white with black lettering and art...

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Why the First High Powered Receiver is Still the Best High Powered Receiver

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Feature(s): Pioneer High Fidelity Components

First Line: When Pioneer first introduced the 160 watt SX 1250 last year...

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: So it goes

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Notes: Sequence on back cover.