Bob Larkin


Bob Larkin is an American comics artist primarily known for his painted covers for Marvel Comics' magazine-format titles Marvel Magazines in the 1970s and early 1980s and for his 32 painted covers on the Bantam Books paperback reissues series of the Doc Savage pulp novels.

Biography

Bob Larkin began his career as an illustrator in 1969 and his many credits include titles such as Crazy Magazine, Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu, Marvel Preview, Marvel Super Special, Planet of the Apes, Savage Sword of Conan, and The Tomb of Dracula. Larkin painted covers for many of the Marvel Fireside Books paperback collections, lending them a simple, movie-poster feel. He did the same thing for the cover to the second major intercompany crossover, Superman and Spider-Man. In addition, Marvel occasionally tapped Larkin to paint covers for premiere issues of such comic book titles as Dazzler and The Saga of Crystar. A rare example of Larkin providing interior art is the three-page story "For the Next 60 Seconds" in Epic Illustrated #1.
Besides his work for Marvel, Larkin has painted covers for Vampirella and The Rook, The Amazing Adventures of Holo-Man, Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast, and many others.
Larkin provided covers to Bantam Books reprints of Doc Savage, as well as World Wrestling Entertainment merchandise featuring The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Kane, and Chris Jericho.

Personal life

With his wife Fran, Larkin is the father of a son named Ken and two daughters, Claire and Holly. Larkin lived in Hoboken, New Jersey in the 1990s. He has a son, Jake, who was 6 years old in September 2012.

Covers

DC Comics