# Heavy Metal (magazine) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** magazines-newspapers\ **Created:** [March 3, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388 "2022-03-03T05:07:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388/1 "2022-03-03T05:07:38Z")
Somewhere in the depths of my storage unit I have a collection of Heavy Metal magazines, from Issue 1 to… sometime in the late-'80s? Early- to mid-'90s? I had a subscription until they changed their format and I lost interest. I think I have Mad and National Lampoon on my computer (it’s bedtime, and I don’t want to look). Is there a digital collection of the Heavy Metal magazines I have? I’d like to download them so oI don’t have to dig through boxes. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388/2 "2022-03-03T05:37:08Z")
Somebody had scanned a sizeable portion of back issues and uploaded them on to the Internet Archive. But they have been removed. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388/3 "2022-03-03T14:16:15Z")
You’d think they’d be downloadable from Amazon, but I only saw individual issues there. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388/4 "2022-03-03T14:30:43Z")
Once online, always online. Cursorily searching I see plenty of issues, including (but not limited to) the Internet Archive, as well as various English translations. Issue #1: > **[Metal Hurlant n 1 : Les Humanoides associes : Free Download, Borrow, and...](https://archive.org/details/print_201906)** > > Metal Hurlant n1les autres numeros de Metal Hurlant deja present sur internet archive     ... ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388/5 "2022-03-04T16:33:43Z")
I remember my fiance had a stack and I spent quite some time perusing them. Some of the stories have stuck in my mind forever. There was one with a character that creeped me out because he was dressed normally but wore a mask, as if hiding some deformity. There was a blue tinted Italian thing - ‘Valentina’ - and of course all the shiny chrome robot women with enormous racks. I kind of sank into another eerie weird world looking through those magazines. Not a good thing to binge! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-magazine/960388/6 "2022-03-04T17:09:06Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > There was one with a character that creeped me out because he was dressed normally but wore a mask, as if hiding some deformity. That would be “Rock Opera” by [Rod Kierkegaard, Jr.](https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kierkegaard.htm)