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Issue: The Alex Toth Reader #2
Publication Date: January 2005
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPure Imagination
Brand: PIView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Pure Imagination Publishing
On Sale Date: 10/25/2005
Volume: 2
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1566850347
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Price: $25.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Reconstruction by Pure Imagination: Greg Theakston and Deonna Mann.

Reprint anthology featuring various Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) one-shots, Crime & Punishment (Gleason, 1948 series) #66 etc.

The table of contents has a number of errors which are detailed in the entries below, but it also lists a story which is not included in the collection: "FBI Agent in the Making" from Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1069. That story is featured in another collection by the publisher, Alex Toth in Hollywood (Pure Imagination, 2009 Series) #1.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Black and White interiors; colour cover
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
Paper Stock: glossy cover; white paper
Binding: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Title Page

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Maverick (Whitman, 1959)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The illustration is from a Whitman children's book.
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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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War on the Streets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Danny Rogers; Bomber Boyd; Nick; Peggy Regan; Pa; Mother; Bushy; Judge
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Mistitled "War in the Streets" in the table of contents.
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The Burner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Nick Lugo; Ike Doyle; Kitty; Charley
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.5
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The Armored Car Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jake; Pete Gruber; Joe Wirtz
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.75
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Stephen Fuller Austin "Father of Texas"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, western
Feature(s): Famous Texans
Character(s): Stephen Fuller Austin; Sam Houston
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Copyright, 1957, by Western Printing & Litho. Co.
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The Temptation of Sam McGraw

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Roy Rogers and Trigger
Character(s): Roy Rogers; Trigger (horse); Sam McGraw
Synopsis: Roy buys an old saddle, and finds a map scratched on it.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Steinar Ådland December 2010. Signed with Alex Toth "shield" in page 1, panel 1.
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No Time For Sergeants

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): John Lee Mahin (screenplay); ? (comic adaptation)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Will Stockdale; Ben Whitledge; Sgt. Orville King; Irvin Blanchard
Synopsis: Country bumpkin Will Stockdale gets drafted into the Air Force and drives everyone around him crazy as he tries to get transferred to the infantry.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Adapted from the 1958 movie "No Time for Sergeants."
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Maverick

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Maverick (Whitman, 1959)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Disclose Notes: 21 illustrations from a Whitman children's book.
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The Time Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): George; David Filby; Mrs. Watchett (housekeeper); James Filby; Weena; various Morlochs
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 33
Disclose Notes: Page 24 of the story (opens with the dialog "Don't you know that the first thing...") is mistakenly repeated in between pages 19 and 20.

Dell's pledge to parents is the last panel at the end of the story.
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The Wild 'Un Comes Home

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Tim Hall; Ron Hall; Dake Dabby (bank robber); Slim Creel (bank robber)
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
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Lights, Camera, Danger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Stuart Bailey; Jeff Spencer; Kookie
Synopsis: Stuart and Jeff go undercover as extras in a movie to find out who is trying to sabotage the film's production.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Kookie Talk

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?, ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?, ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, teen
Character(s): Stuart Bailey (photo of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.); Jeff Spencer (photo of Roger Smith); Kookie (photo of Edd Byrnes)
Synopsis: A page of teen slang phrases with translations into standard English.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Photo and small illustration and typeset text.

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Pirate, Beware

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oh! Susanna
Character(s): Captain Huxley; Susanna Pomeroy
First Line: One sunny morning...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The table of contents misidentifies the source of the story as Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #1071
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Gale Storm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oh! Susanna
Character(s): Captain Huxley; Susanna Pomeroy
First Line: Oh, Susanna! Captain Huxley wants to see you right away!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This story isn't featured in the table of contents, or it assumes it's part of the preceding story.
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A Wet Walk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Danny Thomas Show
Character(s): Danny Williams; Rusty Williams; Linda Williams
Synopsis: Linda is confused about George Washington and the George Washington Bridge.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Back Cover

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (cover copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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