Heavy Metal chiefly ran European-penned serials in an anthology, often with detailed hyper-violence, nudity, impenetrable psychedelia and all manner of bizarre fantasy worlds. In 1979, there had been few fully devoted comic adaptations of feature films. RELATED: Walt Simonson Reflects on "Alien: The Illustrated Story" But it may be deserving of even more praise, as an adaptation that might just be even better than the movie it adapted. A commercial darling at the time, the Alien graphic novel adaptation was the first comic to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List, reaching #7 on the mass market list. One of these came from a very unexpected place in hindsight, with 1979’s Alien: The Illustrated Story, the official comic adaptation of the Ridley Scott film, written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Walt Simonson.
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