Posted: 23 October 2014 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | 4
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The characters in a Toth comic have a real sense of weight and balance to them. They move properly and dynamically. The "acting" and facial expressions are unmatched in conveying the story as well.
I remember being knocked out at an early age by the Super Friends center spread in a Justice League tabloid edition. The rest of the comic was by Sekowsky, and I liked it just fine, but, omigod, those characters in the middle of the book... Jor-El never carried himself with such grace and dignity before! Lara was amazing! Wonder Woman was unlike any version of the character I'd seen before! There was even a picture of Jay Garrick, then and now my favorite version of the Flash. I pored over those images.
In the recent Genius Animated book, I was once again taken aback and left agog by his presentation boards for a Chris King/Vicki Grant "Dial 'H' For Hero" Saturday morning series. Holy mackerel! Just stunning.
It's rare to find Alex Toth super-hero interiors for comics. Here's a short, certainly not comprehensive list:
Action Comics #406, 407 (reprints Brave & the Bold #53) Adventure Comics #418, 419, Adventure Comics Digest #495, 496, 497 Black Hood #2, 3 Charlton Bullseye #5 DC Comics Presents #84 Detective Comics #442 Green Lantern #171 Hanna-Barbera TV Stars #3 Superman Annual #9 X-Men #12 (reprinted in #67)
Some of his Golden Age work has been reprinted in DC 100-page Super-Spectacular issues #17 & 20 as well as Detective Comics #414, 416, 418, 424, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, JLA #110, 113, and Green Lantern #86. The 1998 faux-60's style GL Annual #1 also reprinted a golden age GL story by Toth.
It's also worth picking up recent Showcase Presents volumes for Eclipso, Rip Hunter, Secrets of Sinister House, the House of Mystery, the House of Secrets, Super Friends, the Witching Hour, and Weird War Tales.
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