The big marketing push for the magazine’s movie really gets started. The publication devoted lavish full page spreads to a few movies in the past – Alien and Outland – and used the same formula here. Sixteen pages of movie designs and concept sketches, along with an exhaustive reporting of all of the artists who produced the animation. It certainly made me want to watch the movie again. 

(Heavy Metal issue #53, August 1981 – Page 41 Heavy Metal: the Making of the Movie by Balfour)