Editing Heavy Metal (magazine) (section)

=== Kevin Eastman<!--'Metal Mammoth' redirects here--> ===
[[Kevin Eastman]], co-creator of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', who had grown up reading ''Heavy Metal'', bought the magazine for $500,000<ref>{{cite news|title=THE KEVIN EASTMAN INTERVIEW PART 2|interviewer=[[Gary Groth]] | url=https://www.tcj.com/the-kevin-eastman-interview-part-2/|work=The Comics Journal |number=202 |date=March 1998|via=TCJ website (January 3, 2012)}}</ref><ref name=Rhodes2018 /> in May 1992.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eastman Buying Heavy Metal|page= 23 |work= The Comics Journal|number=148 |date=Feb 1992|department=Newswatch}}</ref> (In total, HM Communications published 137 issues in 15 volumes from April 1977 to March 1992.) Eastman's publishing entity '''Metal Mammoth, Inc.'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->, published the magazine from 1992 to 2014. Eastman also served as ''Heavy Metal''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s editor-in-chief for the bulk of this time (even into 2016, after he was no longer the owner).