This two-page ad has been running for the past few issues (maybe longer), but there have usually been more interesting pages to highlight. The most obvious stuff of note is the collage on the far left page and the weird face made from a woman’s body in the bottom right corner. The fact that the whole ad highlights the back issues of the publication as collector’s items is not new – they’ve been doing that since issue #2, a serious lesson in the art of hype and self-promotion.

(Heavy Metal issue #45, December 1980 – Pages 20&21 Collector’s Item House ad)