Setting the Standard

de Greg Sadowski, Alex Toth

Universally acclaimed as one of the great artists in the history of the comics medium, Alex Toth elevated virtually every story he drew to a master class on design, graphics, and visual narrative. His well-schooled apprenticeship at mighty CD reached fruition at the lesser known Standard Comics, where over a two-year period Toth produced nearly 400 virtuosic pages (62 stories) in the popular genres of the early 1950s - crime, horror, romance, science fiction, and war. Now editor/designer Greg Sadowski (Four color fear, Superman!) has collected Toth's entire Standard catalog, digitally restored and cleaned, in a single volume - supplemented by a rare lengthy 1966 interview with the notoriously outspoken artist, plus in-depth historical and critical notes on every story. -- from back cover.