Heavy Metal Magazine Bucks Downward Trend

Issue #282 is out today.

On newsstands today—Issue #282 of Heavy Metal magazine, a publication founded in 1977 and acquired, in 2014, by TV producer-director Jeff Krelitz and music industry vet David Boxenbaum.

That’s female warrior Taarna on the cover, at right. She starred in the 1981 brand-extension animated movie of the same name and is back to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary.

For a weekend New York Times article, Krelitz told Gregory Schmidt that not only is Heavy Metal magazine doing well as it approaches its own 40th anniversary in 2017.

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