"Brundage, wife of leftist revolutionary Slim Brundage -- who she met at the wildly-bohemian Dil Pickle Club during the Chicago Renaissance -- was the first female pulp artist. The appeal of the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales, was due as much to Brundage's sensationalistic covers as to the stories inside by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Conan creator, Robert E. Howard. Long before Frazetta, Brundage was the very 1st Conan cover artist. "