About This Site

Welcome to the Heavy Metal Magazine Fan Page! I'll try to guide you to understand what can be found on this site, and what it contains. This site mainly started with the Magazine List, listing every issue of Heavy Metal and their contents. Even correcting errors and expanding on titles and names that were printed. However, since this is the Fan Page I couldn't stop at just listing the issues, and therefore I list the official Heavy Metal Movies, Games, Music, Toys, etc. Also to be complete, I've added the Collectors List to list all the official Heavy Metal merchandise that has been made. That should be enough, but then I've also decided that occasionally there's a predominant story in Heavy Metal that has produced other media. And even though it's not officially a Heavy Metal item, I occasionally list other things such as the Ranx game, or the Valerian movie. And just to expand this site a little bit further, I've also incorporated the English Métal Hurlant comics into the Magazine List, because that's where Heavy Metal originated. But then I also include Epic Illustrated magazine, which although it has no Heavy Metal connection, it is very similar in style and occasionally shares the same artists. With Métal Hurlant and Epic Illustrated, I may not go into detail about their merchandise, such as movies and whatnot. I've also added the Not From Heavy Metal Collectors List to include such things as movies, music, and games from various stories somehow connected to either Heavy Metal, Métal Hurlant, or Epic Illustrated. If I make any major changes to my site such as adding an item to the Collectors List, or adding a new issue to the Magazine List, I'll post news about it. However I may not post news for minor updates such as updating a picture, or correcting spelling and grammatical errors. But there's a lot more then that to check out, so feel free to browse around the site. Also note that although this site was fully up to date as of December 2011; updates since then have been sporadic and incomplete.


Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Your pages look a bit off. Why?
A: I updated most of the main pages in 2026 with new software. These pages have white backgrounds. The pages that have black backgrounds use software from 2002 and are very out of date. Especially when it comes to more modem devices like cell phones. I have no plans on updating them, as it's very time consuming. But; we'll see.

Q: Didn't there used to be a forum on this site?
A: Yeah, there was, but I took it down in January 2008. Here's a bit of history of what happened to my forum. My forum was first set up on ezboard in 2001. There was increasingly too much advertising and technical problems with ezboard, so by December 2004, I converted it over to my own forum using phpBB. Unfortunately around May 2006, my forum was hit by a computer worm, so I had to take the forum offline. I didn't get around to reinstalling the backed up forum until September 2006. In December 2007, I installed a new version of phpBB, and was happy to do so, as for many years I had been battling with Spam, and this got rid of it. However, in January 2008, I had a problem with my sites host and my forum was deleted. At that time I weighed my options, and came to the conclusion that I've put hundreds of hours into this forum, and also it's one of the biggest eaters of bandwidth for my site, which is costly. Add this to the fact that there was already an Official Heavy Metal Forum at that time, and it just didn't seem worth it to put it back up.

Q: Didn't there used to be a Talent section on this site?
A: Yeah, there was a section where available artists, writers, and models could pair up to create stories. It was started in 2004, however this section was removed with my site redesign in 2011.


Thank You

Even though I'm the only one that runs this site, it wouldn't be the same without the help from others. I thought about listing names to credit everyone for their contributions, but I would also be very embarrassed if I missed anyone. Some people I might have only talked to once many years ago, and some I still talk with frequently. But you know who you are. There have been people that notified me if I was missing any items in my Collector's List, or Music section, or other places. When available, sometimes they would even take the time to scan images for me to use. Without them, my site would be incomplete. There have been people that have made suggestions for my site, such as what Search engine they recommend. Because of them, my site is more user friendly and organized. There have been people that have taken the time to create some really great wallpapers available for everyone to enjoy. For a while I used to accept donations, and there were a few people that did, which was a huge help! When I had my forum, it was great to get to know some regulars and their thoughts. Thanks for being there. Also, thank you for those that just visit the site. Whether you're a frequent visitor, or this is your first time. Thanks for checking things out. To everyone; thank you.


About Me

This is a section all about Heavy Metal and I. It doesn't hold any real importance for the site, but if anyone is curious who is behind this, feel free to read on.

How I First Learned Of Heavy Metal - It was in 1996, about the time that Heavy Metal was getting ready to have the 1981 movie released onto video, and because of this, it was playing on TV. One night I had a few friends over while it was on. At this point I hadn't heard anything about Heavy Metal. My friends all knew what it was and thought I should watch it sometime. But for now, it was just something playing in the background that I wasn't really paying attention to. I only saw a bit of it, and my reaction to it was: "What is this? This is kind of cheesy, but kind of cool. I should rent it sometime." A few days later, I caught it on TV again, and this time I watched it by myself from the start to the finish. I had my first real taste of Heavy Metal. Unfortunately I didn't fall in love with it though. I thought it was a very entertaining movie, and had a little mixture of everything in it. In fact, it went right onto my list of favorite movies because of just how unique it was. But as entertaining as the movie was, it lacked something. Something I would later find in the magazine.

How I First Learned Of The Magazine - It wasn't long after this that I was in a convenience store one day, and found a Heavy Metal Magazine on the shelf. It was March 1996 with Den on the cover. The Gallery featured the making of the first movie. At first I thought this was a one-off magazine based off of the movie. I bought it and took it home. When reading it, I nearly fell in love with it; this was even better than the movie! This magazine showed me much more then the movie did. The movie had lots of different stories, but not as widely different as the stories in the magazine. From this I found out how weird; sexual; beautiful; and disturbing this magazine could be. I really enjoyed it, and so I went out to look for more, and actually found some. I found that it was kind of hard to find the magazine because it's not sold in most stores and so I got most of my issues from local comic book shops. It was when reading these magazines that I truly fell in love with Heavy Metal.

My Impressions Of The Magazine - The things that I enjoy most in the magazine are the action, humor, and art. Sci-fi action and adventure is probably the biggest part of Heavy Metal, and luckily there are some really great action stories printed within. Humor can be found in many issues, probably due to its National Lampoon history. However, it's one of the least used genres, although that's fine as I wouldn't want this to be a humor magazine. But just a little bit of humor, gives the magazine a nice overall rounded flow. Art is a big part of the illustrations, and the talent that each magazine contains is exceptional. However, even though I highly enjoy Heavy Metal; nothing is perfect. And that's one thing about trying to reach a broad audience with an anthology, is that you can't please everyone. Although if it were me, there are some changes I'd like to see. I wish there was no gratuitous sex and nudity in the magazine. I have nothing against sex and nudity, but only if the story actually calls for it. I also wish there was more emphasis on writing quality. Although the illustrations are almost always amazing, there's the occasional story that clearly lacks decent writing or storyline. One last thing I'd like to see more of is the drama genre. I don't necessarily mean just love stories, but more about focusing on characters and their story. Heavy Metal does have a bit of this, but I wish there were more.

Me On The FAKKYou Crew - A couple years later, I heard there would be a game; F.A.K.K.². Little info was released on it in the beginning, and so I searched for more. A website came up, www.fakkyou.com, from the people who brought you Ritualistic and Shacknews. They liked how much info I was finding on the game, and in April 2000, they put me on as one of their news crew. To me this was very cool, and I was very happy to be there. At first I was sceptical about the game, but in the end, the game proved to be very beautiful and entertaining.

And The Heavy Metal Fan Page Was Born - Before my site existed, I would often look up pages that listed Heavy Metal magazines for information I needed. However, it was annoying because there was no complete list out there. So I decided to make my own, as a reference to me and anyone else that's looking for the same thing. While thinking about how to do it, I decided to make a full site about Heavy Metal and the obscure facts I knew about it. So, on November 12, 2001 my Heavy Metal Magazine Fan Page was born. It wasn't until April 2, 2004 that I finally got the domain name www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com.

Finishing My Magazine Collection - Before 2002, I always tried collecting the back issues whenever I could find them, which was usually at comic shops. This was a fairly slow process, but in early 2002 I decided to give eBay a try. In about a year I finished my collection of every issue in just a short amount of time.

Mild Credits - I was never published in the magazine, although I have had some other contributions with Heavy Metal. I was in the "Letters To The Editor" page as "Dave" in the November 2000 and January 2001 issues, and as "Lostboy" in the November 2004, November 2005, March 2006, May 2006, July 2006, July 2007, September 2007, November 2007, January 2008, March 2008, May 2008, and July 2008 issues. I was listed under "Additional Thanks" in the F.A.K.K.² game credits for my contribution with fakkyou.com. I was listed under "Acknowledgements" in Mike Ashley's book "Gateways To Forever" for my very small research contribution. And I was cited in the book "American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s" for my What Is Heavy Metal? page on this site.

The Magazine List Is Completed - It wasn't until June 19, 2007 that I finally finished the main section I wanted, which was the magazine list. It didn't take me too long to write out a temporary list, but as I was doing so I noticed a lot of little errors which I didn't want. I decided my list wasn't going to be an exact copy of the magazines contents page, but instead improve on that to make it much more accurate. Over 1000 hours of research later, spread over 5+ years, the magazine list was finished.

Archiving The Fan Page - In 2008, every new issue I bought was damaged from the seal on the bag it was in. This was annoying, and I complained, but I still bought them so I could keep my site updated. My personal life was also getting a little busier. 2009 was no diffferent. By 2010, I was still buying damaged magazines, and now my personal life was too busy. I had to cut something out, and I decided that would be this site. I kept it going until my 10 year anniversary, November 12, 2011, when I made the change. The biggest eater of time was my daily search for news, so I could keep everything up to date. I decided my site would focus on the history of the world of Heavy Metal, and not about the future. I removed my news section, and any pages for unreleased projects, such as movies and games. Now that I wasn't updating my site, I didn't want to continue buying damaged magazines. So, I stopped, as I figured out a different place to buy them. But life kept going, and I didn't keep up with Heavy Metal. Then in 2023 I read that Heavy Metal was in trouble, and may be dead. I read more into it, and got more involved with what's new with Heavy Metal. I purchased back issues that I missed over the many years, and made many updates to the site. But I still consider this site is a focus on the history of Heavy Metal.

- Dave "Lostboy" Cail