Third image is what we got on the paperback cover of Conan The Avenger, but the watercolor and roughs show Conan lost an axe. This leaves Conan in the rare sitch of being bare-handed, and while his paws look like more than a match for any jar of pickles, I still wish the final painting had the axe
Those sketches show one reason why Fritz is better than most other cover painters; he thinks about his characters in motion, like an animator. And have you ever seen Ditko's Batman sketches when he was being considered as a fill-in artist? I never knew, until this recent doc on YouTube.
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Wowsers, had no idea! Thanks again for shar'n! Looks like Batman coulda been right there with his Spidey and Creeper and Blue Beetle
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