Jack Kirby's Storyboards for 'Fantastic Four' (1978) II.

As promised, the second part of Jack Kirby's 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 Fleischer's 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 Eisner's 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 Kirby's storyboards for 'The Fantastic Four' Animated Series see here.