To be informal for a second...this guy is awesome, pretty much the father or comic book art. This includes cell shading in a kind of ink style, the muscles and ligaments are predominant and exaggerated in an almost impossible way but this gives the characters a dominance over the backdrop and empowers them with the solid lines that create them. Kirby would have to have researched the human form in order to blow it out into this cartoon form so well.
This character is known as 'The Falcon', notice the solid streaks used to show the soaring movement, this is an important style movement toward 'pop-art'. This is an amplification of motion and action that is necessary in the comic book genre.
The Thing from the Fantastic 4, his form is obviously in lineage with stone textures and rubble and so his physicality is fairly block-solid. The thick outline is a very intention to establish him as a character and make him unavoidably noticeable.
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