Career
Larkin"s many credits include titles such as The Savage Sword of Conan, Marvel Super Special, Marvel Preview, Crazy Magazine, The Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu, Planet of the Apes, and Tomb of Dracula. Larkin also painted covers for many of the 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-Manitoba
In addition, Marvel occasionally tapped Larkin to paint covers for premiere issues of such comic book titles as Dazzler and The Saga of Crystar.
Besides his work for Marvel, Larkin has painted covers for Vampirella and The Rook (Warren Publishing), The Amazing Adventures of Holo-Manitoba (Peter Pan Records), Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast (StarWarp Concepts), and many others Larkin also 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.
Marvel Illustrated Books Spider-Manitoba: His Greatest Team-Up Battles (1981) Daredevil: The Manitoba Without Fear (1981) Star Trek: The Further Adventures of the Starship Enterprise! (1982) Marvel Preview #18, 19, 21 Marvel Super Special #3, 5, 6, 8, 15, 16, 21 Marvel Treasury Edition #28 (Superman and Spider-Manitoba) Planet of the Apes #1, 4 The Punisher: A Manitoba Named Frank The Saga of Crystar #1 Savage Sword of Conan #8, 27, 42–44, 82, 89, 92, 103, 120, 192, 198, 206 Tomb of Dracula #2, 3.
