*That was really a strange episode. Of all the science fiction novels that might end up as part of an undercover operation in a Moslem country, Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT has to be one of the weirdest.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/06/heavy-metal
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"Another comic legend will be making his Heavy Metal debut before Morrison’s first issue hits in 2016: the late artist Jack Kirby, co-creator of Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Captain America, and scores of other famous characters, and whose signature style has influenced generations of storytellers. In the late ’70s, Kirby created concept art for an aborted movie adaptation of Roger Zelazny’s classic 1967 sci-fi novel, Lord of Light. Those who know the real-life backstory of the Oscar-winning film Argo will know that Kirby’s Lord of Light work was used by the CIA as part of an operation in which an agent posed as a movie producer to rescue a group of American diplomats from Tehran following the Iranian Revolution. Heavy Metal will be publishing Kirby’s work, in color, for the first time this August, with permission from Barry Gellar, the writer and producer of the Lord of Light film. The publisher will also be selling a series of Kirby/Lord of Light prints at San Diego’s Comic-Con this summer…."
