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The American painter and illustrator Frank Frazetta (1928 – 2010) had a successful career in comic books and newspaper comic strips in the 1950s and early 1960s. From the mid-1960s he primarily created fantasy cover art for books and comic magazines. He was highly successful and influential within the field and many of his cover images became popular as posters. From 1964 to 1972, he created cover art for James Warren's horror-comic magazines Creepy and Eerie. Frazetta later described this work as a turning point in his career and his happiest time. He said Warren did not pay much, but Frazetta was allowed to do anything he wanted and his work received very positive response.Egyptian Queen was made for the cover of Eerie #23 in 1969. Frazetta said he finished the painting in a day and a half, but was unsatisfied with the woman's face and kept repainting it for three additional days. Still unsatisfied, and feeling blinded by having looked at the image so much, he submitted the painting to the magazine. When it was returned to him a couple of months later he redid the face again and was finally satisfied. The face on the magazine cover is therefore different from the one on the extant painting and later reproductions.
cover art Creepy Frank Frazetta fantasy Eerie horror-comic James Warren