Saturday, August 29, 2009

Saturday Morning Cartoon: The Origin of the Hulk...and other stuff

Jack Kirby Week

The Marvel Super Heroes The Incredible Hulk in "The Origin of the Hulk!" (1966), starring the voices of Paul Sols as Bruce Banner, Max Ferguson as The Hulk, and Bernard Cowan as Rick Jones


This is the cartoon series that uses the actual panels of the comic as the exact designs for the animation. Below is the first full story page of Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962) by Stan and Jack. Can you count how many panels from this page actually show up as animation on the show?

Page 2 of Incredible Hulk #1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Click image to Hulk Out!



Personally, if I'd been making the cartoon, it woulda gone a little something like this:

Hulk #1




Finally, here's a triplet of cool Kirby Triples from Incredible Hulk #1 (click to gamma-size!):

Jack Kirby Triple Panel: Incredible Hulk #1

Jack Kirby Triple Panel: Incredible Hulk #1

Jack Kirby Triple Panel: Incredible Hulk #1



Aw, what heck, just for Jack, why not have another Saturday Morning Cartoon: the opening to Thundarr the Barbarian!:


Opening to Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1982), main characters designed by Alex Toth, with production design team including Jack Kirby



2 comments:

Michael Jones said...

You do know that Paul Soles portrayed Stanley, the old restauranteur in the joint where Betty & Bruce first meet in the recent movie, don't you?

Anonymous said...

I didn't know Kirby was involved in Thundaar. Although I'm not surprised, considering some of what went down on that series.