Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth, 1952-1954
Language: English
Published by Fantagraphics Books, 201
Series: Book 1 of 1 - Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Memories Lost and Found, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.Memories Lost and Found
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Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 80.00
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Collects Toth's complete comics work in full color for Standard Comics in the early 1950s, arguably the most creative and innovative period of his career. Includes romance stories, crime, science fiction, horror and more. Very slight corner wear.
Seller Inventory # 5128
- Title
- Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth, 1952-1954
- Author
- Aamodt, Kim et al.
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Publication year
- 201
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1606994085
- ISBN 13
- 9781606994085
- Illustrator
- Alex Toth
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
- Seller catalogs
- Comic Books: Golden Age (1938-55), Comic Books: History & Commentary
- Part of the first generation to grow up with comic books, Alex Toth came to the medium with a fresh eye and enough talent and discipline to graphically strip it down to its bare essentials. His efforts reached fruition at Standard Comics, creating an entire school of imitators. Setting the Standard collects this highly influential body of work in one substantial volume.
- Toth began his professional career at fifteen in 1945 for Heroic Comics, but quickly advanced to superhero work for DC. Responding to the endless criticism of editors, the young artist strove toward a technique free of "showoff surface tricks, clutter, and distracting picture elements." Simply put, he learned "how to tell a story, to the exclusion of all else." After falling out with DC in 1952, Toth moved West. He freelanced almost exclusively for Standard over the next two years, contributing classic work for its crime, horror, science fiction, and war titles. But perhaps most revelatory to the reader will be the romance collaborations with writer Kim Ammodt, Toth's personal favorites. "I came to prefer them for the quieter, more credible, natural human equations they dealt with ― emotions, subtleties of gesture, expression, attitude."
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