Frazetta considered his time working on these and other Warren Publishing magazine covers a pivotal moment in his development as an artist. “I was a little fresh in the business: I didn’t dare go too far,” he told the Comics Journal in 1994. “But here was something…Oh boy! The minute they mentioned it, images popped right into my head. But actually the turning point was not Conan, but the work I did for Jim Warren at Creepy. I kind of forgot that little period. That was my happiest time. He didn’t pay much, but I could do anything my heart desired, and of course I kept the art.”