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Issue: Heavy Metal Magazine #4
Publication Date: August 1979
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Issues: #4 of 330 Issues (552 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHeavy Metal
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: HM Communications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893658708
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
28 (19 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Sean Kelly; Valerie Marchant; Julie Simmons (managing)
Disclose Notes: 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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Tan, Don't Burn

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Contents

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of Contents with background image.
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...Twenty-Nine...

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory text with background illustration and indicia information.
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Alien the Illustrated Story

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the Heavy Metal Books' "The Book of Alien" and "Alien: The Illustrated Story".
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Time Out: Opus

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
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Pages: 8
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Let Us Transport You...

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Heavy Metal
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for subscription to Heavy Metal Magazine with multiple illustrated panels from various issues.
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The Great Trap Part 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Space Adventures Of Morris White
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Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Chain Mail
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Letters of Comment with a single panel illustration from a past issue.
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Free Ways

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 8
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Shelter

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 5
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Starcrown Part VI

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Bruce Jones Studio (photographs)
Inker(s): Bruce Jones Studio (photographs)
Colorist(s): Bruce Jones Studio (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 8
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Collector's Items

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for back issues of Heavy Metal Magazine.
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A Meeting Of Civilizations

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: 1/3 page text and 1 2/3 page illustration.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Jean Giraud [as Moeb]
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Airtight Garage Of Jerry Cornelius
First Line: Eng. Barnabus Prepares To Leave This World
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Pages: 2
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Monsieur Glouglou

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Zooks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Sequence printed sideways.
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Dragonworld

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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A Space Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 3
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New Ark City

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ? (English translation)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult, religious
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Pages: 8
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The Mess of Fated Mess

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Dated 19 December 1978.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Caries

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Illostratos

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sequence printed sideways.
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Sympathy for the Devil

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): James Waley (adaptation)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult, religious
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Mama's Place

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Amber II

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Amber I (copyright 1977) was in Epic Illustrated (Epic, 1980 series) #34 (February 1986). Amber III, a Starlin illustrated "This Old Man" poem, was in Eclipse, The Magazine (Eclipse, 1981 series) #1 (May 1981).
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The Heavy Metal T-shirt. A knockout

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Heavy Metal T-shirts.
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Buz

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Image on back cover.

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