The Bat Out of Hell album cover for Meatloaf, Richard Corben's first album cover: "Just out of the blue one day... around March 1977 a fellow, Jim Steinman, called me from New ork, having discovered me through Heavy Metal. We talked about me doing a cover for Meatloaf, and at the time I didn't know who Meatloaf was and I don't think anyone else did either. The were in kind of a hurry for it, so we iscussed what it would be in one conversation, and there wasn't time to make a sketch either, so I had to proceed with the finished work and completed it in less than a week. I sent it and they accepted it."