This is the color reprint for the Heavy Metal magazine release of November 1979, December 1979 and January 1980.

Thanks for "trucapo" for posting these:

"Heavy Metal November 1979" located here: https://e-hentai.org/g/2747534/77ff359386/
"Heavy Metal December 1979" located here: https://e-hentai.org/g/2747535/3132ef3a3d/

4-28-2024: I found the complete volume, but it is in "black and white". Until I can find the "January 1980" issue of HEAVY METAL, this will have to do to complete the (heh heh) "tail".

9-3-2025: I have the final 3rd in color, but I will need to scan it in. Until then, this is an updated version with larger pages/artwork.
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Would you believe that it was ROWLF that eventually led to Hayao Miyazaki to create NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND? In a similar situation between George Lucas not being able to obtain the rights to FLASH GORDON (which then pushed him to create his own sci-fi myth hodgepodged from everything he grew up on, from Akira Kurosawa, John Ford westerns, musicals, French comics like VALERIAN and even his own movies like AMERICAN GRAFFITI), Miyazaki wanted to break free from anything Disney related and reached out to Richard Corben to do an animated adaptation of his comic.

The deal eventually fell through when Miyazaki indicated that he wanted to soften the story, so Richard Corben backed out. The preliminary designs (such as the manish dog protecting the princess you might have seen in some of the NAUSICAA sketches) is what led to him creating his own story.

You can tell he borrowed the tank design from ROWFL for the Temeculan tanks.

Here is a video you might find interesting:

Richard Corben's ROWLF -From Underground Comics to Heavy Metal to Two Near Movie Adaptations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga5EwrMtDKY

Moderators: if you can, please delete the prior gallery https://e-hentai.org/g/2901736/45e2b6aaf3/?p=1, as I will be replacing the 3rd part with the full color version when I have the chance to scan it, clean it up and post here. I would greatly appreciate it.
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9-4-2025: torrent has been added. Let me know if there are any problems with any downloads.
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I also just discovered that the Orcs are speaking Esperanto.

- Go to "https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&op=images" and choose "browse your files"
- drop your image
- choose "detect language" or "esperanto", and your language of choice to translate to on the right

Google will translate the words on the page!

Last edited on 05 September 2025, 19:29.

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