Renowned fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, is shown Oct. 24, 1994 photo, in East Stroudsburg, Pa. He died Monday. (David W. Coulter/Pocono Record/Associated Press)

Frank Frazetta, the American illustrator of movie posters and comics who created enduring images of Tarzan and Conan, has died. He was 82.

Frazetta died Monday in Fort Myers, Fla., of complications from a stroke.

Frazetta was known for creating muscle-bound images of superheroes — a style drawn from graphic novels that he carried into book covers and movie posters.

He began as a comic book artist for strips like Lil' Abner and created the Buck Rogers drawings for Famous Funnies in the 1940s and '50s.

His first movie poster was for the 1965 sex farce, What's New Pussycat? He also created the images for Vampirella.

He worked in animated movies, including the feature Fire and Ice for producer Ralph Bakshi.

He found he lacked creative control in film and started to produce book jackets. He was most memorable for fantasy books such as Conan the Adventury, Barsoom (John Carter of Mars) and Tarzan and the Antmen.

Many of his images were of muscular heroes wielding swords or rescuing buxom damsels.

Frazetta also created album covers for musicians such as Nazareth and Molly Hatchett.

He and his wife, Ellie, created a small museum of his work on a farm in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

Frazetta had suffered a stroke that affected his right side, but continued to draw with his other hand in recent years.

He had been in the news recently because of dispute among his children over his valuable collection of fantasy art that began after his wife's death.

The family issued a statement last month that the dispute had been resolved.