Did anybody read 'Heavy Metal' in the early 80s?
Added 2016-08-18 16:09:19 +0000 UTC(Image: a teaser from the upcoming Evil Inc After Dark)
As I was working on this week's Evil Inc After Dark page, I flashed on a memory that had long drifted to the back of my head. If you listened to my interview at Advance Your Art, you heard me tell the story about my introduction to comics. In a nutshell, my uncle, a truck driver, brought a huge cardboard box full of unsold, coverless comics that the drugstore was sending back to be pulped. And you may have heard me tell how the uncle had stashed a bunch of coverless Playboy and Penthouse magazines at the bottom of that box.
Well, my mom found out about the girlie mags and confiscated them before I found them, but she overlooked a bunch of copies of Heavy Metal magazine (that she quickly dismissed as "just comics").
Well, this one copy of Heavy Metal featured a sexy space opera. My only memory was of two bloblike creatures that were literally pouring themselves over each other in an act of mutual oral sex distributed across multiple orifices. I can't remember much more — a bearded captain, perhaps...? Because, let's face it... I was a teenager and it was a COMIC with TITS.
Heh... little did I know...
Anyway... suddenly, last night, it hit me like a bolt, my Space Pirates comic is very much a subconscious attempt to recapture that comic! Which brings me to my question...
Did you read 'Heavy Metal' in the early 80s?
If so, what was the name of that comic?! I'd very much like to go back and re-read it (them). My own research has turned up a feature that ran in the magazine that was called Valérian and Laureline. But that doesn't look like the comic I remember.
Comments
Sorry, didn't get to look for it. You could try <a href="http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/hmlist.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/hmlist.html</a> and see if any of the titles look familiar, then search for specific stories, if you have the time.
Not Ed
2016-08-19 17:05:41 +0000 UTCHeavy Metal was mostly repackaged/translated comics from the French magazine "Metal Hurlant" (I think). Perhaps a search for the French original will bear more fruit.
Alpha Minor
2016-08-19 04:58:49 +0000 UTCwiki link for those interested: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline</a>
Arnaud Stehle
2016-08-18 21:02:07 +0000 UTCCan't comment on Heavy Metal, which is unknown to me as I did not grow up in the US, but I doubt Valerian is the comic you are looking for. It is a french comic and although it has some sexiness (this is a lot more tolerated on the other side of the Atlantic), it should not be as overtly sexual.
Arnaud Stehle
2016-08-18 21:01:40 +0000 UTCI didn't start buying and reading heavy metal until the mid '80s,but I have boxes of older issues in my basement at home from flea markets, used book shops, etc. I can try to dig them out later tonight if no one else figured it out. (Of course there's no telling if I have the correct issue, as my collection is less than complete, as well as a bit buried in that basement. Hopefully someone else will beat me to it!)
Not Ed
2016-08-18 16:46:30 +0000 UTCI did read it in the 80's...but I don't remember that one. I didn't get every single one.
Nobilis Reed (personal)
2016-08-18 16:43:02 +0000 UTCI couldn't buy it. I had Epic Illustrated. Decent knockoff buy not as edgy in my opinion as Heavy Metal. They did have Cholly & Flytrap stories.
Michael
2016-08-18 16:21:57 +0000 UTCI saw a few issues, but don't remember that story. From what little I remember (and I'm remembering the movie more than the magazines), I think your Evil Inc After Dark is much better.
Rick Greene
2016-08-18 16:20:07 +0000 UTCI did! I seem to remember a story 'Hombre' which was set in a post WW3 future. Had a three person group with 3 men and one woman, and they had an arrangement where each guy got the girl for a week at a time.
Chuck W
2016-08-18 16:16:22 +0000 UTCI did, but don't remember that issue, your post made me think of the movie(s)
Matthew Thull
2016-08-18 16:12:06 +0000 UTC
