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While already mentioned above, I was just looking at Alex Toth's work again. Toth is another who began at DC in the 1940's. And I think produced beautiful and classically heroic work right up to the end of his career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_TothIt was great ijn the early 1970's to through reprints and new stories have access to the entire 40 years of Toth's career , in DC 52-page issues, and 100-page issues of his stories from the 1940's on up, on Black Canary, ALL-STAR COMICS and the JSA, GREEN LANTERN and others.
Toth's work on some of the earliest Eclipso stories in five issues of
HOUSE OF SECRETS, issues 63-67, in 1963-1964. This was about the time Toth developed a style that I really liked.
https://viewcomiconline.com/house-of-secrets-1956-issue-63/Some I discovered in 52-page issue back-up reprints :
One in ACTION COMICS 406 and 407, Nov and Dec 1971 (reprinting a story from BRAVE & THE BOLD 53, featuring Flash and the Atom)
https://viewcomiconline.com/the-brave-and-the-bold-v1-053/https://viewcomiconline.com/action-comics-1938-issue-406/Another in ADVENTURE COMICS 418 and 419, April and May 1972 ( a new Black Canary story)
https://viewcomiconline.com/adventure-comics-1938-issue-419/Another example of his style from that era is his new Batman story in
DETECTIVE COMICS 442, Sept 1974, a 100-page issue, by Goodwin and Toth.
https://viewcomiconline.com/detective-comics-1937-issue-442/I also loved a more whimsical and loosely drawn anthology story Toth did in a one-issue magazine titled
DRAGON'S TEETH, dated Summer 1983, about pilots who find their way into hidden Shangri-La paradise in the 1930's. Part of a great collection of stories in DRAGON'S TEETH.
And two nice and quirky back-up stories featuring "The Fox" in
THE BLACK HOOD issues 2 and 3, in 1983.
https://viewcomiconline.com/the-black-hood-2/In the anthology benefit book series to fund Fantagraphics' lawsuit in 1986, in
ANYTHING GOES issue 1, in a one-page pin-up editorial, during the time dark and cynical material had just almost completely overtaken the comics industry, he called for the return of inspiring heroes, saying "we sorely need them." The type of heroes he had been doing for 45 years at that point. Toth did a number of similar cartoon editorials on the subject in COMIC BOOK ARTIST over a number of years after that.
