Creators around the Internet are reporting the same thing: That legendary artist Frank Frazetta has passed away at the age of 82.

Frazetta was well-known for his dynamic, rugged art on seminal comics characters ranging from Conan the Barbarian to Shining Knight to Vampirella. One of Frazetta’s most iconic images — the Death Dealer, painted in 1973 — which eventually was used in comics, novels, and even a CD.

Additionally, Frazetta also hit Hollywood, most notably for the animated 1983 feature Fire and Ice. He also drew movie posters for What’s New, Pussycat?, Hotel Paradiso and the Gauntlet, among many others.

Yet the Frazetta family’s personal life has also been tumultous at best — recently, his son Frank Jr. was arrested for driving a backhoe into the Frazetta Art Gallery, attempting to take $20 million in paintings. Frank Jr. had said that he had the power of attorney over his father’s estate — the charges were eventually dropped.

“My son is an alien,” Frazetta told the Ponoco Record in March. “There’s no telling what he’ll do. He’s been like that for, I don’t know, how many years. We played baseball in the old days. He always chose the opposite side from me.”

While there is no word as to how Frazetta died, he had suffered from a number of health conditions in recent years, including a thyroid condition and several debilitating strokes.

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I loved the Death Dealer series. The covers were pretty awesome, I liked the story and Gath of Baal was a fucking bad ass. Its not great writing but it satisfies a basic need for action, adventure and violence.

Damn. I went to see if I still had my old paperbacks of the death dealer series and they must have been in my books that were destroyed a few years back by water and mold from a cracked sewage pipe in my basement. I can't even find electronic versions online anywhere, just the comic.

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