Nintendo Power

Nintendo Power is a monthly magazine published by Nintendo of America. It includes letters from fans, game strategy, previews, cheat codes and reviews along with various special features month to month.

Issues with Metroid related covers

 * #031 (December 1991): Metroid II: Return of Samus
 * #060 (May 1994): Super Metroid
 * #119 (April 1999): Beetle Adventure Racing (Pictured a sticker of Super Smash Brothers characters, including Samus Aran)
 * #151 (December 2001): Super Smash Bros. Melee (Did not picture Samus)
 * #158 (July 2002): E3 2002 (An outline of Samus was pictured along with other video game characters)
 * #162 (November 2002): Metroid Prime
 * #163 (December 2002): Metroid Fusion
 * #186 (December 2004): Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Comics
Two Metroid-related comic series were ran in Nintendo Power. One was the Super Metroid series that ran from issues 57-61. The other was the Metroid Prime series that began in issue 161 and ran for only two or three issues.