NAMOR The Sub-Mariner cartoon_Ep09_sc51

My OA Collecting has always been skewed towards the intersection between Comic Art & Animation. Despite the limited-animation featured in these original Marvel Super Heroes cartoons,-- the characters and BGs all feature the kind of authentic chiaroscuro that replicated what I saw, in the comic-books I read and collected!
The cartoons were produced in 1966 by the Grantray-Lawrence Animation studios. The artwork was all done in Hollywood. It was one of the earliest cartoon series to make use of the new "Xerography" process.. The black & white art was transferred onto Cels and painted. Disney made use of the same process for it's animated feature: "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", a few years earlier, in 1961..
However, all of the voice acting was recorded in Toronto, Canada.. Using many of the same actors that began their careers in Radio/TV Broadcasting for the CBC. Famous Canadian actor John Vernon voiced "Prince Namor".. In 1966, Vernon was also appearing in his own popular CBC TV series: "Wojeck"; playing a coroner/detective, solving crimes and seeking justice!
These inked Animation Layouts were all done by Mel Keefer.. A great inker who got his start working in the comic-book field, before becoming a Layout artist at Grantray-Lawrence. Many of the originals have interesting Camera Notes on them. And on some, appendages and/or secondary characters are missing.. because they were animated separately, on another Cel level..