Fantastic Storyboards

 There's unfortunately not a lot in the way of behind-the-scenes info on the Hanna-Barbera Fantastic Four cartoon, but we do at least have a few sets of storyboards! This post will be dedicated to sharing them, starting with several from the episode "The Way It All Began," the third episode produced and the seventh aired. It is notable for telling the origin of not only the Fantastic Four, but also their nemesis, Dr. Doom.

These boards were done by Howard Swift.  Like many Hanna-Barbera artists, Swift worked on several Disney feature films, including Pinocchio and Fantasia. He began working at HB in the mid-sixties and continued to do so until the early eighties. He passed away at the age of 70 on January 13th, 1983.

These next two come from "Prisoners of Planet X" and "Demon in the Deep" respectively. I believe Swift did these ones as well, but I'm not totally sure.

And to finish this off, here are several more boards from the episode "The Mysterious Molecule Man," one of the last episodes to be both aired and produced.