Charles Eber "Chic" Stone (January 4, 1923 – July 28, 2000)[1] was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including his landmark run of Fantastic Four.

[2] Stone, at this time living in Hollywood, California, then became art director of Modern Teen and Dig Magazine.

[7] Shortly thereafter, Stone began inking industry legend Jack Kirby's pencils on Fantastic Four (issues #28-38, Annual #2).

He also 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.

[4][8] Of his pairing with Kirby, Stone recalled in a 1997 interview, Just before 1964 I was pounding the pavement, going from one publisher to another, picking up jobs at random.

I happened to walk into the Marvel offices at the time [editor-in-chief] Stan Lee was editing a Kirby pencil job.

... [After I turned in the assignment,] Stan was exceedingly pleased with my rendition of Jack's work, and from that time on I would finish one job to have another waiting.

[9]Cartoonist Fred Hembeck, describing Stone as "my favorite Kirby inker", said that "beyond the bold and expressive line Stone's varied brushwork brought to Jack's power-packed pencils, the sheer fact that, by year's end, he was inking the King on Fantastic Four, Avengers, X-Men, and the Thor and Captain America features in their respective home titles gave the entire line a warm and homey sense of visual cohesiveness that it's never quite managed to achieve since.

[4][11] Other work around this time includes a run of the character Nemesis in ACG's Forbidden Worlds and Unknown Worlds; Dell Comics' Flying Saucers, and a Garrison's Gorillas TV tie-in comic; and early-1970s work for Skywald Publications' black-and-white horror magazines Psycho and Nightmare.

I did what I thought was a great job and proudly brought it back into Chic's smokey Queens apartment the next day.