/r/HeavyMetalMagazine

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A subreddit for collectors and readers of the world's foremost fantasy illustrated magazine.

First published in 1977, Heavy Metal, the Premier Illustrated Fantasy Magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, past present and future. Illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed.

Heavy Metal magazine is now probably defunct. This subreddit stays open as an archive, but also to allow conversation about an important historical magazine that was managed into the ground.

As of October 2024 HMM is possibly un-defunct. Time, as always, will show.

/r/HeavyMetalMagazine

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Looking for a specific issue

I'm looking for an issue where there was a story about a beast who looks like a humaniod lion. He has a woman lover. There were some gore scenes and sex scenes and he looked like he was a king

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2024/11/10
06:17 UTC

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I think I've asked this before but can't find it on here anymore so I'll ask again... Looking for an issue of Heavy Metal that had a comic in it called "Godkiller" and not that one!

I think I've asked this before but can't find it on here anymore so I'll ask again... Looking for an issue of Heavy Metal that had a comic in it called "Godkiller" and not that one!

It was titled Godkiller and that's the name of another comic series that's completely unrelated to this issue's comic!
This was from the early to mid-00s when it was published!
The comic was set in a future where somehow all the major world religions have been unquestionably been proven wrong and the main character is a former Catholic priest that is now working as like a private detective and he's addicted to some drug that is like a hallucinogenic gas that comes in like these double barreled syringe pistols you shove up your nose to ingest and the drug itself is customized doses that are based on famous paintings so that when you're on them you're high and are inside said paintings!
The main plot involves said priest/detective being hired to investigate a series of murders of new upcoming religious/cult leaders by a mysterious woman/hermaphrodite whom the main character has some sort of history with!?
The story ends on a downer note with a double cross of the main character where he's blamed for the murders and is sentenced to a fate worst than death where he's put into a drug induced coma in a virtual reality device that's basically going to make him experience like a thousand years of hell for the rest of his natural life.

7 Comments
2024/11/01
22:34 UTC

134

Stoked to see HM potentially make a comeback.

And to add a box to my current collection.😁

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2024/10/25
01:40 UTC

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Issue 1 Relaunch

Heavy Metal Magazine have early released their Kickstarter page for their soon-to-be campaign.

To anyone interested or just want to follow along, here is their Kickstarter page:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heavymetal/heavy-metal-magazine-1?ref=cwjtxz

If anyone has followed HM for a few years knows the previous handlers were not the best at managing their funds. To the point many folks simply didn't get what they ordered. With no response from HM. Now, given this is from the new team, at least it's something to look forward to. If not at least stay in tuned with.

5 Comments
2024/10/22
13:29 UTC

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Join the Discord.

Come join the [new] Official Discord server for Heavy Metal. They aim to have news there first and foremost before other social media outlets. As well as other opportunities for fans, and professional artists/writers.

Plus, lots of knowledgeable folks who are more than willing to help with story location within the run.

Even if you lurk, news is worth it, especially after the 2 years of nothing.

https://discord.gg/k5YFJbh4F3

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2024/10/21
17:05 UTC

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Looking for a story from Heavy Metal

I have been looking for this forever, but my heavy metal collection was lost long ago.

It's a woman in a green field, full of flowers I believe.. in that field she meets death, who removes her robe to reveal and old woman. The young woman (maybe a bride? I dunno) helps her lay to rest, then dons the robe and scythe and takes over.

If anyone knows it, or what issue it appears in that would be incredible.

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2024/10/21
15:56 UTC

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Heavy Metal Magazine coming back

Just wanted to share for those not on X or Discord. It doesn't look like they've posted about this yet on Facebook or Instagram. Not sure if anyone knows anything else at this point.

Edit with the actual link I meant to include: What if I told you that not only is the magazine coming back... but we also already have the new cover...

12 Comments
2024/10/14
17:34 UTC

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Looking for early stories that may have inspired Warhammer and 40k

Hello! I make videos about the history of Games Workshop and Warhammer, and I also have a podcast where I look at films and other media that have influenced the development of the settings.

I have it on good authority that there were always copies of Heavy Metal to be found in the 80s design studio at Games Workshop and I am hoping to track down issues and stories that may have inspired later concepts, art, and stories from Warhammer & 40k.

As an example, I came across a comment on a blog about Warhammer & 40k that suggested that there was a story, possibly by Druillet, in an early Heavy Metal which featured a spaceship navigator who was plugged into the ship Dune-style. Something goes wrong and he finds himself adrift in a realm of chaos and attacked by demonic entities.

If there are any folks in the sub that are well versed in both Heavy Metal and the worlds of Warhammer then I would welcome any conjecture, suggestions, or theories of issues that may have played a role in shaping Games Workshop's games.

6 Comments
2024/10/07
12:09 UTC

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Cleaning out the garage and found my “One Way Ticket to Midnight”

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2024/10/03
23:43 UTC

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Blu-ray.

6 Comments
2024/10/03
22:36 UTC

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Where is the best place to read the magazines?

I thought I found a good thing on issuu but it already doesn’t half the second comic

3 Comments
2024/10/03
02:43 UTC

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Any Interesting series that was featured between issues 258-320?

Hey Heavy metal magazine sometimes had series of comic that was featured in the magazines like:

The Incal Requiem - Vampire Knight Yiu The Waters Of DeadMoon

I used this website to find them

https://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/hmlist.html

But they dont have information about magazines 258-320

So are there any good series to collect between those magazines?

Thanks

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2024/09/26
03:46 UTC

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I painted a miniature scene to make my own fan cover for HMM

I painted this figure and scene and thought it would make an awesome cover for HMM, so I tried my hand at mocking one up. Figured this was the place to share it for feedback 🙂

2 Comments
2024/09/24
18:55 UTC

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Help me find the artist/story...anything

Hey all, I have an image stuck in my head of the splash page of a story that I think ran in the magazine between 1985 and 2000 (yeah, one of the many vague details that I'm struggling with).

The splash page for the story showed a mostly nude woman (the protagonist) lounging inside a giant truck wheel. She was hired/tasked with rescuing someone and a later panel had her repelling into a room filled with bad guys, while wearing only a tactical harness.

I vaguely remember her name as 'bamba' or 'boomba'...although that could be a dream.

Anyone remember anything similar to this? Any idea who the artist was? The name of the story? Which issue? Or did I make it up in a fever dream?

The image has been stuck in my head for a few days and my google abilities are failing me. Hopefully someone remembers this.

Thanks a bunch!

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2024/09/09
16:52 UTC

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Looking For an Old HM Story...

Hey All,

Used to be a HUGE Heavy Metal reader back in the seventies and eighties. I remember really enjoying a story that, if memory serves, spanned a few issues. One component that was notable was the one of the primary antagonists was the "Orange Catholic Church" or something of the sort. Probably a long shot, but thought I'd ask the community and see if anyone knows the story/artist. TIA

2 Comments
2024/09/02
16:10 UTC

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ordered some back issues in April

all the posts say they're slow, but come on. no way to get ahold of anyone there.

should i contact my cc company and file a req to reclaim the funds?

5 Comments
2024/08/26
00:16 UTC

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Full Collection?

Is there a full omnibus of Heavy Metal magazines in printed form? It'd weigh a formidable amount of course, but I can't find anything on Amazon.

8 Comments
2024/08/23
10:35 UTC

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I love Heavy Metal Magazine covers… surely there has to be a collection of just covers, right??? Where????

I've never found any of the stories inside very compelling but the covers are so amazing... would love a collection of just cover art. There's only 300 covers - this has to exist, right?!?!

7 Comments
2024/08/18
03:03 UTC

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Selling heavy metal collection almost every monthly issue from 1977 to 1985

4 Comments
2024/08/17
06:28 UTC

6

weird issue numbers in the early 90s

I was going through my collection, and I noticed that a few issues around 92-93 have the volume + numbers going crazy. Example 1993 May - Vol. 17 No. 2 (magazine lists it as Vol. 30 No. 7) is probably the weirdest error(?) but there's mistakes either side of that issue.

Anybody know why this is? Was Kevin Eastman smoking a lot of weed or something?

1 Comment
2024/08/16
14:00 UTC

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I started a YouTube channel 100% dedicated to Moebius

3 Comments
2024/08/15
09:00 UTC

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Fall 1988 issue?

Does anyone know anything about there being an error in this issue?

The table of contents in my copy lists "Movie Posters" by Dan Friedman on page 95, but it actually appears on page 15.

A brief and cursory googlin and I see most sites list it on pg 15, but don't mention the error.

I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about this? I can't imagine they stopped the presses(!!!) and corrected this in the middle of a print run, but what do I know. Are online people just correcting the mistakes of of old analog people? Is my copy unique? Do you have a copy? What does it say? Who has the digital ones? Can you look at that for me?

Thanks

2 Comments
2024/08/13
00:05 UTC

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