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Issue: Heavy Metal Magazine #[5]
Publication Date: August 1977
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Issues: #[5] of 330 Issues (552 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHeavy Metal
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: HM Communications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 26 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover title revealed in the Table of Contents page.
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Empire's Blueprint for Better Listening...

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Letterer(s): typeset
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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
Disclose Notes: Interior front cover.
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Three Great Science Fiction Games

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): SPI Games
First Line: In one big money-saving package!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertising the StarForce Trilogy of games.
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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents and credits with partial panel image from the sequence "The Green Hand" in this issue.
Includes creator copyright credits and publisher information.
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Discover your seventh sense...a sense of wonder.

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Letterer(s): typeset
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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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Pages: 1
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...Thus...

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Our mail runs heavily to unsolicited mss [sic].
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Introductory text including Publisher subsidiary information.
Runs 2/3 page vertically.
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Collector's Items

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Mail order for the first four issues of Heavy Metal now considered collector's magazines.
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The Black Queen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Who is it?
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Pages: 4
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Den

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
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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In Content Item: FlagNeverwhere #[nn] [First Printing] published February 1978
as Neverwhere; Kath [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 5 of 12.
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You can subscribe today.

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?; John Roche (testimonial)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Heavy Metal is fantastic! It's better than being stoned. Almost.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Mail order subscription advertisement.
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Fever

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story contains no dialogue.
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Roger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
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
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of 2. Part 1 appeared in the May 1977 issue.
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Polonius

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Polonius
First Line: When Polonius decided to leave those barren lands...
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From Content Item: FlagMétal Hurlant #8 published July 1976
was Polonius [1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Part 1 of 4.
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The Green Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: She lived a simple life in a dusty apartment.
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Pages: 8
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Age of Ages

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: A Gothic Science-Fiction Trip to the Apocalypse
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: 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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Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Circus Magazine
First Line: If rock & roll is your music, Circus is your magazine.
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Pages: 1
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Our Own Little Mardi Gras

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Space War Blues is finally going to be published.
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Pages: 4.67
Disclose 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.
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The Coincidence

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Alright then, don't! It's your tough luck, old man!
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Pages: 3
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The Long Tomorrow Part 2

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Subject Matter
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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From Content Item: FlagMétal Hurlant #8 published July 1976
was The Long Tomorrow [2] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 2 of 2.
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Hamilton Potemkine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
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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From Content Item: FlagMétal Hurlant #5 published January 1976
was Hamilton Potemkine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): 1996
First Line: Mmm... This stile turnz me onduyu!
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Pages: 1
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World Apart: The Golden City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The continent of North and South World...a land arid and consumed by evil.
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In Content Item: FlagStar Fantasy #12 published December 1978
as Die andere Welt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Part 3 of 5.
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Package For You, Missus Jones

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Now...wait a minute, Mr. Jones. It's not...it's just that...
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Pages: 7
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Binders for Heavy Metal are coming

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Beautiful vinyl binders, white with black lettering and art...
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Pages: 0.3
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Why the First High Powered Receiver is Still the Best High Powered Receiver

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pioneer High Fidelity Components
First Line: When Pioneer first introduced the 160 watt SX 1250 last year...
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: So it goes
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Disclose Notes: Sequence on back cover.

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