Charles Eber "Chic" Stone was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including his landmark run of Fantastic Four.
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10 Facts About Chic Stone
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Chic Stone studied at the School of Industrial Art, and the Works Projects Administration School.
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Chic Stone largely left comics during the 1950s to become an art director for magazines including True Experience and The American Salesman, and to publish a magazine, Boy Illustrated, which folded after two issues.
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Chic Stone did commercial art for Grey Advertising and TV commercial storyboards for Filmack Studios.
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Shortly thereafter, Chic Stone began inking industry legend Jack Kirby's pencils on Fantastic Four .
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Chic Stone inked Kirby on early issues of X-Men and the feature "Thor" in Journey into Mystery, and the two artists collaborated on covers across the spectrum of Marvel's comics.
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Chic Stone's pairing with Kirby, Stone recalled in a 1997 interview,.
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Chic Stone told me he would give me ten bucks to finish drawing a train yard and some other backgrounds on the page and told me to bring it back the next day.
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Chic Stone was talented and I was a kid, wanting so hard to break in.
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