I know what you mean , as the Conan look of the Star Wars comic and the Tom Jung poster were heavily influenced by the work of Frazetta , who George Lucas was a huge fan of as well as a friend of George Lucas named John Millius who went on to direct the 1982 Conan The Barbarian . Lucas also owned a comic book shop called Super Snipe in the late 70s and was an avid fan of Comic art and at one time , almost did the Conan movie , it is mentioned in this video …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pmf3_FXM-M
Wow, I didn’t know Lucas actually owned a comic shop.
Makes sense he’d be a fan of comics though, after all early versions of Han had him looking like DC’s Swamp Thing. From what I’ve gathered, the earliest draft of SW had several placeholder images to illustrate what he had in mind, such as a cut-out of Swamp Thing. And the cover of the second draft had a generic John Carter-type image which was very similar to the final Jung and Hildebrandt posters.
also worth mentioning is that the first writer of the original Marvel Star Wars , Roy Thomas , was best known as the writer of Conan Comics and petitioned George Lucas to green light the comic and convinced Stan Lee to take it on . I am also a huge Conan fan , almost as much a fan of it as Star Wars . And Roy Thomas’ writing helped shape my vocabulary as a kid
For some reason I always thought it was Howard Chaykin who talked Stan Lee into producing the SW adaptation. Even though I’ve had various version of the ANH adaptation since I was a kid, it’s always slipped past me that Chaykin only drew it. Weird.
And it’s too bad Lucas stopped making non-SW films. I’d love to see what an 80’s Conan movie by George Lucas had looked like.