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The origin of the whole style seems to have been Frank Frazetta doing illustrations for pulp serials of Conan and John Carter of Mars, then book covers for Conan, then Gygax reads a whole load of pulp novels including Conan and builds a game system to play the adventures of those novels. Vallejo also did Conan art, and it seems his first book cover was for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Barbarian

There is a "Borisography" online if you want to explore his work.