Fantasy Art Question

[Mairkurion {tm}]

It doesn't appear that we have a particular section for fantasy art, so I will shoot for OTD:

Anybody familiar with this Frazetta illustration? I was curious what it was made for. In the background it looks like an elder brain in its pool.

[Little Timmy]

HEP!

[DM Phil]

Some one in the community, please, reach out and help this poor vegetable of a man with his question!

[SouthEast Jones]

DM Phil wrote:

Some one in the community, please, reach out and help this poor vegetable of a man with his question!

Well, the copyright date is 1967, so we can eliminate RPGs.

[Mairkurion {tm}]

Yep. I was assuming someone would see it, immediately recognize what novel it was a cover for, and go rummaging in their closet for it...maybe its luck of the draw or maybe it was a particularly obscure book?

Well, I finally found at least part of the answer to my own question: Nazareth, Expect No Mercy, 1977. It would seem that the artwork was not created for the album cover, originally. The title might be Man, Monster, and Brain.

[Callous Jack]

I have it in one of my books at home. I'll check it later. My best guess is that it was a cover for one of the forgotten books or pulp magazine he did work for.

[Callous Jack]

Well, it was an album cover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect_No_Mercy

[Mairkurion {tm}]

Thanks, Jack. I appreciate it.

[Mairkurion {tm}]

Callous Jack? Too early to pester you?