alex toth's zorro the complete dell comics adventures

Trapped on a balcony in Four Color #228, while the house is being searched by soldiers, does he leap down to the grounds to engage his foes with a laugh and a smile? No, he does not. Someone should check the water in Pueblo de los Angeles.Īnd Zorro is hardly himself, at least in the first story. Then in the next one, everyone except Diego’s father Don Carlos Vega and his servant Bernardo has amnesia, so at the end he reveals his identity again! In the third issue, everyone has again suffered a blow on the head or something, except for Don Carlos, Bernardo, Diego’s fiancee, his fiancee’s brother and the governor of Alta California (all of whom continue to be in on the secret for the rest of the run). At the end of the first issue – which adapts the first Zorro story, which had already been made into two films – Zorro reveals his identity as Don Diego Vega to one and all. But moreover, there is no continuity at all. Battles are bloodless, action scenes rather tame. In the foreword, Max Allan Collins says the three issues drawn by Kinstler are the best, and I don’t disagree with his assessment.Īs to the writing, well … this was for kids, and it shows. But this is good work serviceable and occasionally inspired. Most of this art falls in the Milt Caniff school, and pales, of course, to the work of Alex Toth, who drew seven Zorro adventures for Dell from 1957-60. The art is by Bill Ely (#228), who might be familiar as the artist on DC’s Rip Hunter, Time Master a mystery artist, possibly Dan Noonan (#425) Everett Raymond Kinstler (#497, 538, 574) John Prentice (#617), before starting his run on “Rip Kirby” and Roberto Giolitti (#732), who drew the infamous Gold Key Star Trek. Labeling aside, these are decent if somewhat tame adventures. I suspect Hermes used “pre-Code” because of the recent success of Craig Yoe and others in reprinting pre-Code horror material. You might instead label these comics pre-Alex Toth Zorro comics, for that would be more accurate.

The issues reprinted do begin pre-Code, with Dell’s firs Zorro in Four Color #228 (May 49), but they extend well past the introduction of the Code in 1954, to Four Color #732 (Oct 56). This book’s title describes the content as “pre-Code” Dell Zorro, presumably meaning pre-Comics Code, but it is hardly that. I already have Alex Toth’s Zorro: The Complete Dell Comics Adventures, and if you do too, we may be done here. !dunno (1) (1) 500 essential graphic novels (1) 5p 030 (1) adventure (1) Alex Toth (3) American (1) classic fiction (1) comic books (1) comic strips (1) comics (19) comix (1) Dell (1) Disney (1) Disney Comics (1) fiction (4) For Leddy's call number (1) gn (2) GN.ZORRO: THE COMPLETE DELL PRE-CODE COMICS ADVENTURES

Alex toth's zorro the complete dell comics adventures