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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

The Alex Toth Readers V. 1 & 2

This isn't a review, just some comments. I was surprised and delighted to finally receive this item from my online comics retailer, a CD-ROM featuring pdf versions of both of Pure Imagination's 160 page books collecting prime Toth material from the '50s and early '60s. No superhero stuff, but the first volume has a lot of short romance stories that are silly but drawn with great sense and flair, while the second one has a lot of Dell adaptations of movies and TV shows of the era like Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip and the early Andy Griffith film, No Time For Sergeants. Toth gets even better here, and also has more room to work with as these are full-length comics and not six-or-eight-page stories. It's been like a year since I ordered this, so I can't remember how much I paid, but if you see it listed again in Previews, order it and know that someday, you'll get something really cool. It works on Macs, too, if you're concerned.

The weird thing, aside from the delay, is why the publisher's website makes no mention of this disc, nor its softcover versions, nor even Toth himself! There's a page on Jack Kirby with listings for his early work collected by Pure Imagination, and the same for Basil Wolverton, the back issues of now-defunct The Betty Pages, and The Lou Fine Treasury, but no Toth. You can seemingly order books online from their site (never saw a .info before), but no Toth. I have to think it's just that the site hasn't been updated in a long time, right? Does anyone know the story here?

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