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Jack Kirbys Storyboards for Fantastic Four 1978 II

Read comic online As promised, the second part of Jack Kirbys pencil Storyboards for the 1978 animates series The Fantastic Four. Again, these are for the seventh episode The Olympics of Space, scripted by Roy Thomas. Remember, Kirby had already worked in the animation industry early in his career in 1935, when he was only eighteen years old. as an assistant animator on the Popeye shorts at Max Fleischers studio, although that proved a short- term stunt. After that, he started doing various newspaper comic strips for Lincoln Features Syndicate, and later (in 1938) worked for Jerry Iger and Will Eisners studio, who ran the Universal Phoenix Syndicate.

A Clean Shaven Man was one Popeye short Kirby worked on. Released on February 7, 1936, it was remade by Famous studios in color as Clean Shaven Muggs, released as the 200th Popeye cartoon short in 1953. For part one on Kirbys storyboards for The Fantastic Four Animated Series see here.