Alex Toth — Out West
All American Western # 121, August 1951
Living in the West, this is probably the time of the year that reminds me most of… living in the West.
Warm, sunny afternoons, dry cold nights, cool mornings; just the way I pictured the climate watching dozens, if not hundreds of western films as a kid back in the cozy confines of the New York City metro area.
Ironically, I never read many western comics as a kid. (I guess I had my fill on TV.) So I never caught up to the classic western comic art until much later on.
Some of that great art that included Johnny Thunder by Alex Toth. Toth, an Eastern transplant himself, had a visual storytelling style perfect for those 50s Thunder stories.
But then again, Toth’s amazing talent was perfect for just about any genre: Romance, horror, SF, war, and the all-too rare superhero story.
I had only read a handful of Johnny Thunder stories when this original was offered for sale, but coincidentally enough, it was from a terrific story I had in fact remembered. It appears in the DC’s collection of greatest comic book stories of the 1950s
Can’t argue with the editorial choice one bit.
