2. Lee is listed as the writer, Kirby as the artist. But in fact it was more complex. They had talked about story together briefly, but Kirby drew art (i.e. all plot, characters, scene setting) & then Lee added dialogue.
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3. It's not just Kirby plotted out story. He also provided extensive notes along side of art for Lee to follow, which he usually did faithfully but not always.pic.twitter.com/4Mnu5m0WJ5
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4. In this case there are some interesting differences. Character Klaw was in Kirby's notes called Ahab (and he does look like Melville's Ahab).
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5. Other big difference. Kirby has T'Chaka say "get hell off sacred mound" which Lee softened to "Begone! This land is ours!"pic.twitter.com/uWmFxuw41V
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6. Lee's changes are defensible but they do blunt Kirby's anti-colonial themes. But linking villain to Ahab Kirby was evoking longer tradition of Western imperialism, acquisitiveness, attacks on nature, etc.
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You mean Fantastic Four #53?
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Would have been an interesting choice to include Black Panther in only one of the first 52 issues of his eponymous series.
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Enjoying this thread. I'd like to see someone not just do the postcolonial deconstruction, but also compare #53 to Haggard's King Solomon's Mines -- how did Lee and Kirby update, if they did, in context of 1960s?
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I think the person who should do that is
@zunguzungu
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