This feature lives at /artists/earl-norem/, a career-spanning wall of Earl Norem’s Masters of the Universe paintings: four Golden Books covers, all sixteen covers of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Magazine (1985 to 1988), the pull-out posters that defined the painted look of the vintage line, high-res scans of ten original boards with the five-figure prices they now bring at auction, and the story of his 2002 encore on Image Comics’ relaunch at age 79.
The short version: a WWII 10th Mountain Division veteran who painted men’s adventure pulps and four dozen Savage Sword of Conan covers brought that entire tradition to a kids’ toy magazine, every quarter, for four years. Eternia never looked bigger.
Cover scans via the Wiki Graysku