tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post2956973330338735300..comments2024-03-23T23:46:29.024-07:00Comments on The Fabuleous Fifties: Totally TothGer Apeldoornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-82976203562797474562019-02-10T07:21:47.550-08:002019-02-10T07:21:47.550-08:00Slick as the Toth/Barry work was -- light years be...Slick as the Toth/Barry work was -- light years beyond just about everyone else at National at the time -- I think my favorite inkers on Toth were Mike Peppe on the gorgeous romance stuff at Standard and Toth himself at least till towards the end of his career.The Seditionisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054750794702860380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-78924677321639905952019-02-09T16:52:03.305-08:002019-02-09T16:52:03.305-08:00Yes, regarding Dan’s brother Seymour “Sy” Barry - ...Yes, regarding Dan’s brother Seymour “Sy” Barry - it would be interesting to know his personal relationship with Toth: as Murphy Anderson said in “The Life and Art of Murphy Anderson” (2003) “Alex [Toth] did everything, penciling and inking. But they wanted him just to pencil. He was a very good, sure penciler. Nothing sketchy, everything was very definite and easy to understand. Seymour Barry used to ink a lot of Alex for DC. Everybody wanted to ink his work because it was so clear.” comicstripfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14830784804963989361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-73602978840753852682019-02-09T13:55:11.804-08:002019-02-09T13:55:11.804-08:00Also per the GCD (https://www.comics.org/issue/899...Also per the GCD (https://www.comics.org/issue/8995/), there's only two Toth stories in issue 12.<br />As for National's love/hate thing with Toth, however they felt about Toth and his art, the Toth/Barry team became the house style for ~10-15 years. And IMO, his art very, very early on that first stint was just about the best the company was publishing.Manquemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15865407293310034043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-74720079533997130542019-02-08T05:47:23.004-08:002019-02-08T05:47:23.004-08:00Apparently he was allowed to show a little bit of ...Apparently he was allowed to show a little bit of his own style. And don't forget that he influenced many of his (hated or not) compatriots at DC with his unique renderings.Ger Apeldoornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-8004229509838751562019-02-07T16:46:30.657-08:002019-02-07T16:46:30.657-08:00A sidebar to Jimmy Wakely and Toth of which I’m su...A sidebar to Jimmy Wakely and Toth of which I’m sure you are aware Ger: it is reported that during the period Toth drew the stories he had a terrible relationship with Julie Schwartz, the editor at DC that oversaw Wakely; and with Carmen Infantino at DC for whom Toth lacked respect; after Toth had passed away, in a later interview (from “Carmen Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur”) Infantino said that Toth “hated drawing Jimmy Wakely and he wanted to draw only what he wanted to draw. Well you coudn’t take that attitude with Julie.” In a 1968 Graphic Story Magazine interview reprinted in “Setting the Standard-Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954” Toth said “…finally, in 1952, I’d had it. In need of a change of pace and environment, I quit DC and went over to Standard Comics…drawing romance, horror, war and science fiction…until…’54.” With all this negativity, it’s amazing how the quality of the art held up.comicstripfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14830784804963989361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-68409923771188024952019-02-06T15:50:07.452-08:002019-02-06T15:50:07.452-08:00Comics.org says the cover's by Gil Kane - and ...Comics.org says the cover's by Gil Kane - and I agree. But I also agree that this is the issue where the stories start to look like the real Alex Toth ...Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09673694107107403000noreply@blogger.com