Did anybody read 'Heavy Metal' in the early 80s? (Patreon)

As I was working on this week's Evil Inc After Dark page, I flashed on a memory that had long drifted to the back of my head. If you listened to my interview at Advance Your Art, you heard me tell the story about my introduction to comics. In a nutshell, my uncle, a truck driver, brought a huge cardboard box full of unsold, coverless comics that the drugstore was sending back to be pulped. And you may have heard me tell how the uncle had stashed a bunch of coverless Playboy and Penthouse magazines at the bottom of that box.

Well, my mom found out about the girlie mags and confiscated them before I found them, but she overlooked a bunch of copies of Heavy Metal magazine (that she quickly dismissed as "just comics").

Well, this one copy of Heavy Metal featured a sexy space opera. My only memory was of two bloblike creatures that were literally pouring themselves over each other in an act of mutual oral sex distributed across multiple orifices. I can't remember much more — a bearded captain, perhaps...? Because, let's face it... I was a teenager and it was a COMIC with TITS.

Heh... little did I know...

Anyway... suddenly, last night, it hit me like a bolt, my Space Pirates comic is very much a subconscious attempt to recapture that comic! Which brings me to my question...

Did you read 'Heavy Metal' in the early 80s?

If so, what was the name of that comic?! I'd very much like to go back and re-read it (them). My own research has turned up a feature that ran in the magazine that was called Valérian and Laureline. But that doesn't look like the comic I remember.