![]() ![]() This volume features an introduction by Howard Chaykin. This first of a two-volume collection was reproduced from proofs in black and white rather than the colour of the original comics, but Toth himself provided separations for a grey halftone tint to add some extra visual juice to the art, and the pages look superb. Despite his annoyance, Toth produced marvellous strips, which almost manage to make the reader forget how dull the material is. He disliked a lot of what he had to draw, and especially didn’t like this television Zorro wearing a cape, which didn’t have much logic to it as far as he was concerned. Toth did his best to make the visuals interesting, but he was handcuffed to pedestrian stories and even with his incredible talents there was only so much he could do. ![]() The scripts came from the writers of the Walt Disney TV show who followed the same very talky and static style that television budgets demanded. What initially seemed like a dream assignment soon turned into a slog. Between 19 Alex Toth drew eighteen stories for Zorro comics. The covers were photographs of the star, Guy Williams, but the insides were all strips. Alex Toth’s art director at the producers of Dell Comics, knew Toth was a fan of the 1940 Mark of Zorro film starring Tyrone Power, and handed him a script for the Four Color comic, a licensed TV tie-in adapting stories from the show. ![]() In 1957 the Walt Disney studios television version of Zorro began airing on television. ![]()
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