Alien: The Illustrated Story

Heavy Metal Presents Alien: The Illustrated Story was a graphic novel adaptation of Ridley Scott's film published by Heavy Metal in 1979. Based on the original screenplay by Dan O'Bannon, the adaptation was scripted by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Walt Simonson.

Editions

• ISBN 0930368428

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Ash *Brett *Dallas Jones *Kane *Lambert *Parker *Ellen Ripley

Creatures

Cat *Xenomorph **Facehugger **Chestburster **Drone

Locations

LV-426 *Earth (Mentioned Only)

Organizations and titles

Weyland-Yutani

Sentient species

Human *Synthetic

Vehicles and vessels

USCSS Nostromo *Narcissus *Derelict (LV-426)

Miscellanea

Egg

Behind the Scenes

Extremely critically acclaimed, the adaptation was created by comics legends Goodwin and Simonson for equally acclaimed Heavy Metal. Goodwin was also known for being a former editor at Marvel Comics and long-time Star Wars comics writer/editor in comic book, daily strip, and movie adaptation forms. Simonson would become renown for his work on Marvel's Thor. His future wife, Louise Jones, would also go on to serve as an editor on Star Wars, and as the writer of Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species in 1993.

Note that this adaptation was prior to Dark Horse comics acquiring the license to produce comics after the release of Aliens in 1986. Indeed it predates the existence of Dark Horse Comics itself.

See also

• Alien (film)
• Alien (novel)