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Issue: Heavy Metal Magazine #[5]
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Publisher: FlagHeavy Metal
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Indicia Publisher: HM Communications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893658708
Price: $1.50 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
26 (15 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Sean Kelly; Valerie Marchant
Disclose Notes: Barcode in entry was 0709893859708.

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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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Ziegfried

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fantasy
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Empire's Blueprint for Better Listening...

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Empire Phono Cartridge
No matter what system you own, a new Empire phono cartridge is certain to improve its performance.
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Interior front cover.
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Three Great Science Fiction Games

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SPI Games
In one big money-saving package!
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Advertising the StarForce Trilogy of games.
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Contents

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Contents and credits with partial panel image from the sequence "The Green Hand" in this issue.
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Discover your seventh sense...a sense of wonder.

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Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction
Once upon a time there was a future...
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...Thus...

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Our mail runs heavily to unsolicited mss [sic].
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Introductory text including Publisher subsidiary information.
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Collector's Items

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Mail order for the first four issues of Heavy Metal now considered collector's magazines.
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The Black Queen

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fantasy
Who is it?
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Den

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Den
In this strange world, Neverwhere, I met a beautiful woman and we fell in love.
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Part 5 of 12.
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You can subscribe today.

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Heavy Metal is fantastic! It's better than being stoned. Almost.
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Mail order subscription advertisement.
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Fever

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Roger

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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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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 appeared in the May 1977 issue.
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Polonius

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Polonius
When Polonius decided to leave those barren lands...
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Part 1 of 4.
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The Green Hand

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She lived a simple life in a dusty apartment.
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Age of Ages

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A Gothic Science-Fiction Trip to the Apocalypse
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Part 4 of 5. Part 3 appeared in the June 1977 issue. Story concludes in the February 1978 issue.
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Here's Your Ticket to Rock & Roll

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Circus Magazine
If rock & roll is your music, Circus is your magazine.
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Our Own Little Mardi Gras

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Space War Blues is finally going to be published.
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Excerpt from the novel "Space War Blues" (copyright 1972 by Richard A. Lupoff), published by Dell Books.
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The Coincidence

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Alright then, don't! It's your tough luck, old man!
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The Long Tomorrow Part 2

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I tailed the guy who'd just tried to snuff me up the anti-grave shutes to the surface.
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Part 2 of 2.
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Hamilton Potemkine

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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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[untitled]

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science fiction
1996
Mmm... This stile turnz me onduyu!
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World Apart: The Golden City

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The continent of North and South World...a land arid and consumed by evil.
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Part 3 of 5.
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Package For You, Missus Jones

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fantasy
Now...wait a minute, Mr. Jones. It's not...it's just that...
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Binders for Heavy Metal are coming

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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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Pioneer High Fidelity Components
When Pioneer first introduced the 160 watt SX 1250 last year...
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[untitled]

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So it goes
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Sequence on back cover.

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