Cover - "Aries" - Enrich Torres
p.04-05 - "Dossier: Blow Op" - John Morthland and Lee Nye
p.05 - "Dossier: Videodoom" - Timothy R. Lucas and Jerry Bauer
p.05-06 - "Dossier: Advance And Be Recognized" - John Shirley and David Alexander
p.06-07 - "Dossier: Seven Panels Of Dick In Depth" - Ned Sonntag
p.07-08 - "Dossier: Short And Soft" - John Silbersack
p.08-10 - "Dossier: Dark Side Of The Moon" - Merle Ginsberg and Robert Mapplethorpe
p.08 - "Dossier: Sects And Books" - Mary Wilshire
p.10-11 - "Dossier: Aberrant Texans And Jewish Armadillos" - Michael Simmons
p.11 - "Dossier: See The Movie, Play The Game" - Daphne Davis and Ralph Nelson Jr.
p.12-13 - "Dossier: Nahallywood" - Ed Naha and Howard Cruse
p.13 - "Dossier: Video Games Go To Hollywood" - John Holmstrom
p.14-19 - "The City That Didn't Exist" - Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal
p.21-28 - "Tex Arcana: Case Of The Disappearin' Chickens!" - John Findley
p.29-36 - "Ranxerox" - Stefano Tamburini and Gaetano "Tanino" Liberatore
p.37 - "HM's Star Dissections: Honeymooner" - Drew Friedman and Johnny Craig
p.38-46 - "Alef-Thau: The Second Song: The Hunt For Louth" - Alejandro Jodorowsky and Arnaud "Arno" Dombre
p.47-54 - "The Clips: Heavy Metal's First Annual Awards For Excellence In Music-Video" - Alan Hecht, Len Mogel, Julie Simmons-Lynch, Lou Stathis, and Steven Maloff
p.57-61 - "Gallery: In A Word - Splendid! A Look At Rowena" - Theodore Sturgeon
p.62 - "June 2050: June 2483" - Todd Klein and Murphy Anderson
p.63-67 - "Interview: Francis Ford Coppola: The Outsider" - Robert Morales and Brian McCall
p.69-76 - "The Odyssey" - Francisco Navarro and José Martin Sauri
p.77 - "The Way Of The Worlds" - Nicola Cuti
p.78-79 - "Professor Neutron" - Chris Lincoln
p.81 - "I'm Age" - Jeff Jones
p.82-89 - "Zora" - Fernando Fernandez
p.92-95 - "Rock Opera" - Rod Kierkegaard Jr.
p.96 - "The Bus" - Paul Kirchner
p.96 - "Next Issue..."
Back Cover - Christopher Mark Brennan

Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, published beginning in 1977. The magazine is known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction, erotica and steampunk comics. Unlike the traditional American comic books of that time bound by the restrictive Comics Code Authority, Heavy Metal featured explicit content.

The magazine started out primarily as a licensed translation of the French science-fantasy magazine Métal hurlant, including work by Enki Bilal, Philippe Caza, Guido Crepax, Philippe Druillet, Jean-Claude Forest, Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius), Chantal Montellier, and Milo Manara. As cartoonist/publisher Kevin Eastman saw it, Heavy Metal published European art which had not been previously seen in the United States, as well as demonstrating an underground comix sensibility that nonetheless "wasn't as harsh or extreme as some of the underground comix – but . . . definitely intended for an older readership".

Heavy Metal's high-quality artwork is notable. Work by international fine artists such as H. R. Giger, Frank Frazetta, and Esteban Maroto have been featured on the covers of various issues. Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore's RanXerox series debuted in the States. Terrance Lindall's illustrated version of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost appeared in the magazine in 1980. Many stories were presented as long-running serials, such as those by Richard Corben, Pepe Moreno and Matt Howarth.

Illustrators like Luis Royo and Alex Ebel contributed artwork over the course of their careers. An adaptation of the film Alien named Alien: The Illustrated Story, written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Walter Simonson, was published in the magazine in 1979.