History of Heavy Metal

"In the mid-1970's, while in Paris to set up a French edition of "National Lampoon", publisher Len Mogel discovered a new adult science fiction/fantasy comic magazine, "Metal Hurlant" (Screaming Metal). Impressed with the concept, a natural for Lampoons cutting edge style, Mogel licensed an American version, and named it HEAVY METAL.
The first issue hit news stands in April 1977, and introduced American audiences to the work of Europe's greatest graphic artists.

A smash hit from its launch, it sold out all across the country, striking a cord with hundreds of thousands of older fans who had outgrown the adolescent output of mainstream comic publishers, but still loved the medium of "sequential storytelling"...COMICS!

Heavy Metal magazine became a magnet for world class comic talent, and in addition to the top self European artists and writers such as; Mobius, Liberatore, Serpieri, Gimenez, and Royo, all of the best American creators like: Bode, Corben, Wrightson, Frazetta, and Olivia, found a new outlet for their fantasies.

Heavy Metal is the oldest illustrated fantasy magazine in U.S. history, celebrating thirty years of bringing the best graphic storytelling to the world, and that still is... only the beginning...

Read more about it on the official website.
http://www.heavy-metal.net/