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I was looking again at Frank Frazetta's covers for the first three Molly Hatchet albums (in 1978, 1979, and 1980), that were Frazetta covers for Conan and other paperback covers in the 1960's and 1970's.

First there was Frazetta's "Death Dealer" cover.
Wikipedia cites "Death Dealer" was first painted by Frazetta in 1973, and it appears to have been used for the first time in May 1978 as Molly Hatchet's first album cover. Alhough it could have appeared before that as a poster, bookcover or magazine cover, but is first listed as Molly Hatchet's album cover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Dealer_(painting)

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Then the cover for "Flirtin' With Disaster" in 1979 (The Frazetta poster version is titled "Dark Kingdom".)
This painting was first used as a paperback book cover for DARK CRUSADE by Karl Edward Wagner (1976), before used again as Molly Hatchet's 2nd album cover.

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And then another Conan cover re-used on their "Beatin' the Odds" album in 1980. (The Frazetta poster of it titled "The Berserker")
I got a laugh about this artticle I saw, while looking it up :
https://gizmodo.com/metallica-conan-the-barbarian-frazetta-art-auction-2000684899

As I discussed wih G-man in a topic a few years back, ours has become a much more expensive hobby. The pages of original art you could own for less than 50 bucks back in the 1970's and 1980's, even Adams, Kirby, or Byrne/Austin X-MEN, often now sell for tens of thousands, or even millions.

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On albums after, Molly Hatchet broadened to a Boris Vallejo cover, a photo cover of the band members, and then other cover artists, for a total of about 12 albums over almost 50 years.
But the time they're loved for are their 70's and 80's music.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Hatchet