Heavy Metal 1 - April 1977: Adult fantasy comics by Moebius, Druillet, Corben, and more!!!
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I had tried to buy Heavy Metal a couple of times at People's Drugstore. I would always get stopped because of my age. One day an older lady was at the counter and she apparently thought all comics were the same. I managed to buy an issue with an unbelievable Druillet story rounded out with Manara and Bilal. It blew me away and was so different from the X-Men books I was reading at the time. I then realised the older lady worked every Thursday and I planned out how I could get Heavy Metals and Savage Swords from then on. It did spoil me, it had to be a great Marvel or DC book to get me to even look.
Ha! I think I had the same problem. Hard to remember details 40-45 years later, but I think they were kept with the porn stuff around here (conservative, small-town S. Wisconsin). Anyway I don't think I ever bought a copy when I was young, and only a few scattered ones later. Now in my mid-50s, I'm interested again, though I'll probably never spring for the first couple of issues.
I was a kid in the UK in the 1980s and you never saw or heard of Heavy Metal comic magazine over there and even if it was on the shelf you couldn't buy it due to age restrictions, however, during the 1980s I often went as a kid on holiday to Spain and Portugal and in tourist centric towns and big cities they had Heavy Metal magazine (in English) and you could buy it back then, no questions asked and I was just totally blown away buy it, far more serious and adult than say British comics 2000 A.D. and The Eagle (it got a relaunch in the UK in the 80s I remember). I brought the Heavy Metal back to the UK after the holidays in Spain and my friends were amazed by it.
I used to love RanXerox, any weird surreal works of Moebius. Also one shots like 'Bunker 6a' were amazing.
The coolest thing about Heavy Metal in that first era was how connected it was with counterculture. The underground artists and writers all creating great storytelling entwined with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll.
Wow! great vid, thanks, you guys! Some pointers: around the 6-minute-mark, Jim touches on an interesting topic: Humanoïdes Associés kind of was the french Image Comics, back then! Moebius, Druillet and many more went away from the main french publishers, like Dargaud, to form their own imprints, for more creative freedom, and money, of course. The parallels to McFarlaine, Liefeld etc. are uncanny. Also, the french "house style" Ed mentions probably was the Ècole (=school) marcinelle (with a looser line work), as opposed to the ècole Hergé (clear line). But of course, Moebius and all the others changed that. Heavy Metal was a prime gateway for all kinds of new styles. And please, get a copy of Valerian and Laureline under your microscope, it’s underrated, fun sci-fi, with a loose drawing and story telling style!
I remember after band class in grade 7? Grade 8? 1985 ish…One of the kids stole his Dad’s copy of Heavy Metal and brought it in and we all gathered around to see boobs in comics. Plain and simple. It blew all of our minds though and I distinctly remember Arthur Suydam in there, think it was a character Mugwump? Game changer as far as comics though, my whole perspective changed on them. Once I got older and further discovered that you could go into a comic shop and ask to see the box of comics kept behind the counter and found Underground’s….I was gone. Superhero books? No fuckin thanks. Great video fellas. Sign me up for a guy that wants to see you talk about Druillet. Hearing Jim mention Bouncer makes me hope there’s a video coming of that soon as well. More Euro comics coverage is always welcome.
I 100% am that kid who rolled-up on a bmx or skateboard, got a Heavy Metal magazine from the gas-station and had my mind blown. Definitely a landmark moment in my life.
Heavy metal coined by William burroughs in Naked Lunch
Burroughs, yes, but the term first appears in his book The Soft Machine, from a few years later in 1961.
Really cool seeing you guys cover this. I was only born in '73 but Heavy Metal Magazine became pretty important to me as I got into my teens and discovered there was so much more to Euro comics than Tintin and Asterix. Sure, the sexy parts were nice (I was a teenage boy, after all)*, but I was already deep into fantasy and sci-fi literature as well as comics so it was a pretty awesome thing for me all around.
I actually got started off the soundtrack, not sure how or where I got it but probably bought it when I was first really getting into rock and metal music. I do know that the first album I bought with my own money was Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind" when I was nine, and saw the movie finally when I was just 13 when a friend showed me the VHS copy of the HM movie his older brother had, so between those to points somewhere. Again, the sexy parts were amazing and mind expanding at that age when girls were really beginning to not be gross anymore, but the humour (I can't read any lines from Den without hearing the late great John Candy's voice) and the raw coolness were what lodged it firmly in my brain. It was so utterly different from what I was used to seeing in animation at the time.
Then I got onto the magazine and my local comics shop had no trouble selling it to me. I don't have a complete collection or anything, but I have a ton from the late seventies into the mid-90s. At that point they dropped the sexy stuff for the most part, and the stories they were publishing just generally began to feel less challenging and safer, so I dipped. Looked in every now and again since, but I haven't been particularly impressed with what I've seen.
Aside from Mobius, anything illustrated by Massamiliano Frezzato or Juan Giminez became an instant favourites. One of the stories that's really stuck with me, keeping in mind that I haven't reread most of these in 20 years, has to be RanXerox. Very cyberpunk, and at the time I was starting to read the mag and collect back issues I had also just read William Gibson's _Neuromancer_ and was fully enamored with the genre.
*it doesn't hurt that I'd been exposed to a lot of art as a child, as my parents were pretty liberal about that stuff. Classical and fantasy art, as my Mum was a college prof (retired now) and one of the subjects she taught was classical mythology so that art was at an intersection of her interests. I knew who Frazetta and Vallejo and Achilleos were before I ever picked up a copy of Heavy Metal. But yes, I won't deny it, as a teenager I did develop a special interest in the sexier pieces. ;)
ps, okay that was long, but you did ask!
I *just* bought a copy of this on eBay on Thursday. Got in before that Kayfabe Effect surtax!
Just watched In Search of Moebius last night and spent a chunk of the day looking for old Heavy Metal and Metal Hurlant issues today.
This is eerie this was today’s episode.. I must be too locked into the Kayfabe
I had been reading National Lampoon since I was 10 (1975), getting away with it because my parents, who were going through their marriage vitriolically falling apart, never bothered to monitor my reading material, so the figured it was just another humor magazine along the lines of Mad. Anyway, I read Lampoon regularly, so I saw the ads for Heavy Metal. The publishers of national Lampoon brought Metal Hurlant to the States, heavily advertising it in National Lampoon, so when it struck, those of us who read Lampoon as well as comics gave it a shot. It hit just as I was turning 12, and it was just what I needed at the time. In many ways it was seen as a sister magazine to National Lampoon, as both were anarchic examples of their respective genres in regular publishing, and if one read both, it was apparent they were from the same publisher, thanks to the overall design of the magazines and them both running a lot of the same ads. Speaking of which, that "Root of all evil ginseng ad was 100% real. They sold that kind of stuff in Lampoon throughout the 1970's.
What I loved about HM was the variety of art styles, from the cartoonish style of Vaughn Bode, to the exquisite detail of Druillet, and everything inbetween.
Love the video! This was the art of my childhood! So amazing! The art, the stories, the fantasical genre!
Cheers Jeff
I managed to get my grandmother to buy me issue #2 at a grocery store when i was 9. Once my older brother got a look at it it was confiscated.
So happy to give you guys those issue 1s! It's a no brainer! A comic in your hands gets enjoyed by thousands of people! Thanks for the shout out and aloha! Can't wait to see you guys again!
My uncle was my gateway into Heavy Metal ( along with biker porn magazines ) way back in ‘78 ! I was seven years old, and the storylines of these stories were above me, but the art! It completely ruined comics for me! I became a Howard Chaykin devotee about that time as well ( and the stacks and stacks of Warren magazines …. I was forever warped!) . My favorite stories were anything by Moebius, but I became enthralled by a B&W series ( from the eighties ) called “ Tex Arcana “ . I’ll be 51 next month ( if I should be so lucky ) and I will always have a soft spot for Heavy Metal! They have been my longest running relationship! Great work from both of you guys! Nice to hear from Ed and Jim going into the new year! Peace!
In the 81 movie adaptation there was a segment between captain sternn and the b-17 bombers called Netherware land due to the pacing of the segment both the director and Ivan Reitman felt that it was right to omit it out of the final movie but later became an standalone piece in the special features for the DVD following later revisions on Blu Ray
Man I love that you have dived into the Heavy Metal pool. My very first copy was November 1981, in Nov 81, I was 9 years old but I had very liberal parents + My dad had artistic talent. They really had no worries about my reading & comprehension of the subject matter as there was no way i would have understood it, but the art.....man that turned my world upside down. Corben's DEN 2 reshaped everything for me. I don't draw much anymore however I still paint miniatures (Warhammer kind of stuff) and often use Corben's colour palette to help me paint the figures. I had quite a sizable collection of Heavy Metal's as a kid, that I still own for the most part but as a teenager when I was big into comics kinda dropped HM. Mid to late 90's I got back into HM and have collected it ever since. Missing 11 issues for the entire run, I'll complete it one day!
My memories of Heavy Metal magazine are very clear. I first saw issue number 4 at a newstand and got the back issues from Comic Scene or Media Scene. At the time I had stopped reading comics and was so disappointed with mainstream comics. Heavy Metal magazine, Star reach comics and Jim Starlin, put me back on track and inspire me to do my own self publishing. Heavy Metal magazine let me know that you could make comics about anything. Of course, I have favorites... Moebius , Corben, Druillet and Conquering Armies and many more. Those early days of this publication are very important and to me holds up to this day.
Heavy Metal and Epic Magazines for me. My dad was open minded and Heavy into art. He used to buy these magazines and for himself let me read. GRHS.
Bode came out of the fanzines (after being published in college presses) and from there it was a short jump to the SF pulps. It's hard to imagine, but Sunpot was originally serialized in the newsstand science fiction digest Galaxy in 1970. (The originals were probably correspondingly small, which may be why some of those panels look simply drawn in the magazine size.) Bode got into a series of disputes with the publisher and basically killed off the characters to escape whatever obligations he may have had. The final chapter is just all of the corpses floating around inside the ship. The strip was nicely reprinted in an underground format on heavy paper with a separate oversize folded blueprint page. Bode never colored it; the version in Heavy Metal was colored by other hands and Bode was dead by the time Heavy Metal appeared.
Amazing info Russ. I had no idea Bode was working in the SF digests!
I had already given up comics but the issues of Heavy Metal in convenience stores were always eye-catching. Druuna was the comic that really caught my attention.
Druuna made a lot of people "stand to attention".
I remember buying this when it came out - it blew my mind, it was my introduction to non-American comics, Moebius, Druillet, etc. I was only 16 at the time, but I guess the comic shop owner figured I was responsible enough. And a few years later, when I was in Paris after a business trip, I bought a ridiculous number of back issues of Metal Hurlant, and then had to figure out how to get them back home without spending huge dollars on shipping (freight shipping to the rescue, albeit months-long delivery).
I can't remember which issue it was, but when I was a kid I managed to sneak a copy of HM into my house only for my father to find it and chuck it in the trash. Good times.
Richard Corben’s art and story “C.Dopey” actually appears in the first issue of Metal Hurlant (1974). Den’s first appearance is in the underground comix Grim Wit #2 (1972) and is reprinted in Metal Hurlant #3 & 4 (1975) and then in Heavy Metal #1 (1977).
Love your show, guys! Keep up the great work!
I knew someone was going to drop this here shedding light on Corben's involvement with Metal Hurlant.
Blast from the past issue from my youth. BTW, Ginseng Cologne by English Leather is(was) a real thing. Like most people I bought my Heavy Metal mag at a 7 Eleven.
Serpieri's Druuna was quite mind-blowing for me when I discovered it in the pages of Heavy Metal. It was originally Corben that initially drew me to the title at a too-young age.
Man I remember Druuna! I understand the comments about "something going on that's beyong understanding" with the art work-- the scenery was too real- as if a lot of these panels were based ln a real place, or building, city, spaceport whatever-- there was something almost recognizable in Ranxerox or Salamander.
I'm beyond glad that I stumbled onto you guys. This was exactly what I was looking for in a comics channel. I gotta go binge the rest of your stuff now.
My first interaction with heavy metal was in the early 2000s, when my uncle gave me a couple of his. I don't remember the name of the story that I had read, but it was about a world where bottles of water were their currency, and a guy had just traded his daughter to some nasty warlord looking guy for 8 bottles. I think she ended up killing him or something. I need to go and pick up some of the new Heavy Metal and give it a try. It would be nice to go out and find a bunch of the old issues.
I got this one at a comic convention for 5 bucks good day.
What a flashback... I read that Terry Brooks book "swords of shannara" when i was 12 and other books he wrote, like "Magic Kingdom for Sale". Hope all is well Jim! Sending you good vibes!
Conquering Armies was all short standalone stories. Absolute classic. I bought the compiled hardback edition when I lived in France in 89-90 and it is spectacular.
I was blown away back then by HM in my early twenties. Still have a carton or two of them somewhere around the house.
I love all the art in these Early Heavy Metal comics. A friend of my Mom's gave me her collection when I was 12 and it was every Heavy Metal from 1977-1984. I got this collection and Melancolie and the Infinite Sadness for Christmas. I was discovering Milo Manara's Gullivera and John Findlay's Tex Arcana while I was listening to XYU by the Smashing Pumpkins in 1996. I didn't realize what a gold mine I had on my hands when I was 12. Outland, Den, Cody Starbuck, Arrzac, RanXerox, All of the Moebius, Drullet, and Mezieres in these early issues, were quite an education in sci-fi and fantasy comics.
The missing link between Corben’s underground comix and Heavy Metal is Grim Wit #2 which is a mostly two person anthology with Corben and Jaxon where Corben debuted Den and Jaxon, Death Rattle. IMO.
Good luck finding that one though!
Those ads are real. Ginseng cologne was a thing and still is.
I own a whole run of HM from April 77 to Dec. 82. The worst thing to happen to it was the release of Star Wars. There's a damn cantina scene in every issue for the duration of the 70s.
..of course Moebius is everyone’s admiration…but Richard Corbin and Phillips Druillet are two of my biggest early influences thanks to Heavy Metal…The beginning of my first year in high school I was sent to the Dean’s office back then for having an open heavy metal magazine before class…they tried to tell my mother that I was reading porn…she laughed ..she wouldn’t have cared but she knew it was an art book…fun stuff guys….
Mœbius, Corben, McCay are the best for me
This was a turning point for me. I pretty much quit reading Marvel within a few years and started looking for stuff with that art and but also started looking for better stories.
Cool, I want to encourage you to do more like this.
People today do not know how ground breaking this was.
I have first three years I inherited from my father. At a young age way too young I had a fascination with the magazine/comic. Other boys were sneaking there Dad's Playboys or Penthouses and Hustlers I was sneaking Heavy Metal, Zapped! And Young Lust. This issue is framed on my wall.
RIP Jean Claude Mezeries.
First saw this on the newsstand in 1981 and it melted my 12 year old mind. Didn't get my first issue till '89. After that it was a mission to collect the entire run (pre-ebay!) I collected every issue up until 2001 when I fell off. Was also a big fan of the film. FYI.. this mag and its Euro counterpart were the main inspiration for Ridley Scott's look and tone for Alien and Blade Runner.
HOLY...! I REMEMBER HAVING THE VERY 1ST ISSUE Y MIND BEING BLOWN BY THE SOPHISICATED ADULT CONTENT AS WELL AS THE WRITING/ART ,ESPECIALLY BY MOEBIOUS!❤😮😊😊😊
English Leather is a real cologne.
This is the English version of the original Metal Hurleant.
So glad Mezieres' contribution made it into the discussion! I hope one day you guys will look at Ambassador of the Shadows, the most visually imaginative Valerian book (which makes it one of the most visually imaginative books of all time). Mezieres' colorist on Valerian was his sister, Eveline Tranle, and I wonder if she didn't do the color for the Space Punks story, also? Incidentally, there are a few artist's editions of the Valerian books out in France. The page size is very large, about 13x18, which I think explains how he gets all the brushy detail onto the page. Anyway, a kind of diffuse comment, but I was just excited to see Cartoonist Kayfabe tackle some of Mezieres brilliant comic art!
I can hardly believe Ed brought up that old Dracula's Castle attraction! It was one of my favorite things on the Wildwood boardwalk when I was little. That beheading by guillotine illusion seemed so real to me then!
Fond memories of my dad almost breaking the mechanism that powered the sliding wall trap too. Good times!
Matty Simmons had a remarkable career. He went from running Diner’s Club (basically the first credit card) to owning National Lampoon and this.
Very frustrating how there aren’t any compendiums of the best material from it (e.g. Ranxerox) that are still in print
First time viewer and subscriber. Everything was amazing. Content and commentary was top notch.
Conquering Armies artist is Jean-Claude Gar and Humanoids published a hard cover collection that was colored and simply titled “Armies” It’s amazing and has common DNA with Steranko and Gulacy’s work… great stuff!
The Conquering Armies stories from Gal and Dionnet were actually Pat Mills' main influence in developing Slaine. He wanted stories that brutal, unsentimental, and with art at that level, which he'd get with McMahon and Bisley.
Love the channel man! Introducing myself and others to some really great stuff
I was 15 years old when this came out. It was a paradigm shift for me as a young aspiring artist. TBH, I believe I was more of an artist back then eventhough I have work in museums around the globe today. The world was bigger back then. I wasn't as fond of this cover as I am now since I do 3D robot animation as well as fine art sculpture. However, I loved the mag and rarely missed and issue eventhough I had to travel to Main St. to get it. Amazing to see it in theater back then as well. I wish I was artist I was back then 40 years ago. In many ways, I'm trying to get back there, since I grew up, and this helped. Sub'd.
So happy any time Vaughn Bode gets mentioned on the channel. I have such a deep love for his work. Still hanging out for you fellas to do that Cobalt 60 deep dive episode with Mr Darrow
WOW!?! You guys got 2 copies of #1?! That is epic! Great episode. I love Heavy Metal. Sometimes hard to follow and just pick up because of all the serious multi-part stories, but it is always great if you can find a run!
It occurs to me that the technical blueprint of the ship in Von Bodé's story seems to be a reference to Tintin. We get the same page with the same layout for the moon rocket in Objectif Lune.
I was ready to get out of comics but could not help but look at the new books while at the store. I got the 1st one and was totally blown away it was an adult comic in every way; the art, the stories, the nudity, and the quality of the magazines themselves. It opened my eyes to artists and comics from all over the world.
One thing, back then, I definitely copied the work and I was less judgemental about the subject matter than I am now. I use to draw all kinds of things back then but only considered it cool. This mag helped me hone my talents and skills as an artist and I can say, like Marvel, it taught me to draw. Then when I got to be 20 I would replicate the covers more seriously in the mediums that the original artist would use...like pelican inks or quill pens. I don't recall if I knew Corben passed on. RIP.
Top 5 videos you guys did imo!! Long live Kayfabe
I have a definitive collection of HM. I showcase this genre spanning magazine in several videos on my channel. Thanks for giving love to such an epic magazine that still comes out several times a year to this day.
These guys are top-drawer comics scholars, but you can tell that they weren’t kids in the 70s-- of course the ads are totally real!
Luis royo and julie bell covers were my earliest memories of heavy metal.
Excellent stuff, I’d love to see you lads do some British comix like 2000ad Eagle Oink Toxic! Dandy Beano
Started reading HM in the 80s, with some back issues. My first issue was appropriately the "Rock & Roll" special. Really heady and way more experimental than I was used to, but I took to it immediately. Around the same time Marvel's brief answer was their own EPIC magazine. Briefly subscribed to HM in during the 90s when I was working at a comic book shop.
the real OG is Métal Hurlant, and not heavy metal, which is just a translation. The comic book and movie revolution came from France.
Between this and Savage Sword of Conan, really set me up artistically in my even years before I came across Bone and Love & Rockets.
Should have called it "Howling Metal"
Can’t stress enough how influential these early issues of HM were to young artist, me. I bought every issue my grubby teenage hands could grab. Thank god mom was oblivious.
You guys put me onto a 'Roy' research frenzy! Finally found out the artist is 'Patrice Roy' - with some illustration/art credits in early Metal Hurlant. Beyond that, can find next to nothing about this artist. I'm intrigued! See what you guys did?! ; ) Back to the hunt! ....
My first exposure to Moebius was Panzer Dragoon for the Sega Saturn. The developers were influenced by his work, so the first game especially looks like it was ripped from Arzach. He contributed concept art based on their designs, and the cover of the Japanese version is one of the pieces he created for them. Heavy Metal was never available in my area. Surprised to see PDF versions of older issues aren't available on the official site.
Heavy Metal no. 1 is historic!
Not just classic but iconic.
I haven't seen any heavy metal magazines since I was a teenager in the 70s. I was the only kid who got into it in my neighborhood.
I have a vague memory of a comic that had various stories in it, one where the world was run by horses who dominated man, and the other was set in a movie theater where some metal heads were sitting watching a movie with one of them having his legs up on the seat and then a movie goer in front of him fires up a chainsaw and cuts the guys legs off. it was terrifying and must have been some sort of adult magainze with horror comics. I wish I could remember what that was from, I remember it till this day.
I'm glad I kept my heavy metals. This is like the legit indie to the mainstream marvel.
I have been searching everywhere for the issue that includes a punk character getting sent to a prison filled with carnivorous roaches. I can not for the life of me find that issue. Any ideas?
Back in the day, my brother had a subscription to National Lampoon and they previewed the Heavy Metal magazine. As an artist I was fascinated by the different art styles featured. I got a subscription to Heavy Metal and I have the entire series and the National Lampoon preview magazine I stole off him. LOL
If you smoke a doob, put on a Hawkwind record, and read old Heavy Metal, you can reach satori.
the ginseng cologne ad was real
36:50 - First thing I thought was Metalhead from TMNT. HA! :D Perhaps an inspiration?
The collage stuff is reminiscent of Max Ernst's surreal collages. It's worth checking out.
English Leather was definitely a real product
I would love to see nice reprints of HM and Nat Lamp maybe how they used to do it where you would buy an entire year's worth and they'd put it in a nice binder
I have a story about this book.
I was at a Zia records, looking at the used magazines, I see a ton of Heavy Metal issues. I look through them and see 3 Moebius covers, I thought they looked cool so I picked them up. I see one with a robot that has tits breaking another robot and thought that looked super fucking lame. I pay less then 3 dollars for them and leave. When I get home I look up the books and figured out I had issues 2,3, and 4. My jaw hit the floor. I looked up the 1st issue out of curiosity and figured out it was that really stupid robot tit one. I drove back to the store in the morning and it was gone. Months go by and I was just about to graduate high school and my girlfriend gives me a gift. It was Heavy Metal issue 1.
And after all these year this channel got real.
Now Heavy Metal was one Awesome comic magazines especially when they came out and made The 1979 movie of Alien which blows my mind
I first saw the movie in '88, I was 17. I loved it! I currently have the Blu-ray. Still love it!
HOW TF did Corban achieve such a CG-look in the 70s?!
Loved that first issue, a classic !
38:22 Exactly right. Looks like Soviet bloc style art from the time like the post apoc animation "There Will Come Soft Rains..." Even maybe Roland Topor and Rene Laloux's Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage)
I would like you to review Gypsy by Marini and Smolderen. I recently picked up the Omnibus and was finally able to read some of the hard to find stories. I was hooked from Heavy Metal May 1995 issue.. and would flip through them on the newsstand to see more Marini art... and maybe a sexy lady boobs?
Have this one and I'm interested finding from where mine left off, Please guys. Ps is there a DVD out there in good condition or even new 🤔
I used to cut out the little mag covers and tape them to my lighters.
The Mag was incredible for decades--it's really gone downhill since issue 300! The customer service sucks and subscribers are very pissed off at not getting books on timer if ever--go to their facebook page and it's nothing but complaints--so sad!
Corben was published in original Metal Hurlant.
I remember that cover on the shelves.
I started to read HM fairly recently (well, recently in terms of how long the magazine has been around), my first issue was the Summer 2009 issue so that's way far in the future compared to this! I like these older issues and the art styles a lot more than the 2009-2012 era when I was reading, though there's some very cool artists I've discovered in recent issues. I started working backwards in the years buying back issues, mostly focusing on Simon Bisley covers since he's my favorite artist.
An extended version of that Den story appeared a year earlier in Ariel.
I was in a high school level special arts program. Big fan of comics. Never bought the issue. Didn’t like anything that wasn’t Druillet, so thought it wasn’t worth it. But a friend discovered various French comic albums. Maybe it was me, but they just didn’t connect with me. But I found Valerian and Mezieres and fell in love. Completely changed how I thought about drawing.
So I'm13 years old and in addition to trying to find Eerie and Creepy and even Vampirella around the little south GA town , im sweating HM every month-- thank god my Dad was military and I went to Fort Benning PX with my mom all the time. Generally had a month's worth of allowance for magz and Estes model rockets.
Let's say all the comic book stores around here or even in 100 miles have been closed for over 10 years were can I find em.