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Issue: Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2011
 
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Publisher: FlagIDW
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Indicia Publisher: IDW Publishing
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Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781600108280
UPC/EAN: 978160010828054999
Price: $49.99 USD
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Content Items: 38 (18 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color cover; black and white and color interior
Dimensions: 34 cm x 25 cm
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Binding: smythe-sewn hardcover
Publishing Format: graphic novel
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Preface

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Introduction

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[untitled]

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Table of Contents

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Prologue: Swashbuckler

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Part One: Youth

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Sloppy Joe Vogl (wrestler); Count Drakulla (wrestler)
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Part Two: Treasures Untold

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Character(s): The Shadow
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Part Three: Tutelage

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Terry Lee; Burma; Johnny Hazard; Scorchy Smith; Charlie Chan
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Reprints newspaper strips Wash Tubbs (3/10/38); Terry and the Pirates (2/23/41); Johnny Hazard (6/5/41 to 6/7/41); and Scorchy Smith (7/10/36; 8/8/36; 8/20/36)
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Part Four: Influences

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Part Five: First Steps

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Disclose Notes: Reprints excerpts and original art from Heroic Comics #32, 35, 36, 44 (Eastern Color, 1943); Juke Box Comics #1 (Eastern Color, 1948); and Catholic Pictorial #1 (George A. Pflaum, 1947).
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Part Six: Going National

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Disclose Notes: Includes excerpts and original art from Jimmy Wakely #12 (DC, 1949); All-Star Comics #38 (DC, 1940); All-American Comics #92, 96, 99 (DC, 1939); Green Lantern #30, 33, 37 (DC, 1941); Comic Cavalcade #23 (DC, 1942); Dale Evans Comics #7 (DC, 1948); Sugar Bowl Comics #1 (Eastern Color, 1948); All-American Western #103, 105, 106, 107, 121 (DC, 1948); Secret Hearts #2 (DC, 1949); Girls' Love Stories #3 (DC, 1949); True Crime V2 #1 (Magazine Village, 1947); Danger Trail #2 (DC, 1950); and Thrilling Romance #24 (Standard, 1949)
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Battle Flag of the Foreign Legion

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sergeant LeJac; John Douglas (an American Legionnaire); Desert Hawk (villain, commander of the Touregs, death); the Touregs (villains, all die)
Synopsis: Sgt. LeJac leads his forces out into the desert to face the enemy force of Touregs......but mysteriously find them all dead, with the French Regimental flag flying over their bodies.....a flag carried into battle by American Legionnaire Douglas and who had been branded a coward!
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Part Seven: Mystery Date

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Disclose Notes: Includes excerpts and original art from Personal Love #11 (Eastern Color, 1950); Casey Ruggles (5/16/50; 6/16/50; 6/30/50; 7/5/50); Big Town #9, 11, 12 (DC, 1951); Strange Adventures #13, 18 (DC, 1950); All-Star Western #64 (DC, 1951); Jimmy Wakely #12 (DC, 1949); All-American Western #109, 118, 120 (DC, 1948)
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Thunderjet!

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Genres: aviation, war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
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From Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #8 published September 1952
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Part Eight: High Standards

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Disclose Notes: Includes excerpts and original art from The Unseen #6 (Standard, 1952); Destroyer Duck #1 (Eclipse, 1982); Intimate Love #21 (Standard, 1950); Jet Fighters #7 (Standard, 1952); This Is War #6 (Standard, 1952); Exciting War #8 (Standard, 1952); Fantastic Worlds #6 (Standard, 1952); Lost Worlds #6 (Standard, 1952); 3-D Romance #1 (Mikeross Publications, 1954); Crime and Punishment #66, 68 (Lev Gleason, 1948); and Buster Crabbe #2 (Eastern Color, 1951).
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Synopsis: In World War I, German pilot von Mueller has a close encounter with a UFO.
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The Crushed Gardenia

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Synopsis: The story of Johnny Faber: a young man who "had no control of his rages". Turned down by his girl Ellie, Johnny kills her in a jealous fit.
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From Content Item: FlagWho Is Next? #5 published January 1953
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I Fooled My Heart

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Genres: romantic
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From Content Item: FlagPopular Romance #24 published July 1953
was I Fooled My Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]Republished from the original art
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Job Number: R-790
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Alice in Terrorland

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From Content Item: FlagLost Worlds #5 published October 1952
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The Hands of Don José

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Genres: adventure, horror
Synopsis: Barcelona in Spain. Cruel general Martinez cuts off the hands of bull fighter Don José for ogling his girl. But when Martinez is confronted by a vicious bull, the crippled matador cannot help him.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Darkness #9 published April 1953
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Free My Heart!

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From Content Item: FlagPopular Romance #23 published April 1953
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Job Number: RS-758
Disclose Notes: Script: Jennings credit added by Stephan Friedt (error 8838)
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Inks: Signed by Peppe on page 3
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Grip on Life

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Synopsis: A corrupt district attorney is brought to poetic justice by his wife who returned from the dead after a car accident. When she finds out that he doesn't love her anymore, she goes back to the grave - taking him with her.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Unseen #12 published November 1953
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Job Number: B-1725
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Murder Mansion

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Synopsis: Gangster couple hides in an abandoned mansion and conjures up the demon Teneshad to do their bidding. But there's a price to pay. Teneshad grows ever larger and takes them prisoner.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Darkness #5 published August 1952
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Blinded by Love

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From Content Item: FlagPopular Romance #22 published January 1953
was Blinded by Love [Story on Interior Page(s)]Republished from original art
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The Phantom Ship

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Synopsis: The vicious sorceress Circe lures treasure hunters aboard her gold-filled phantom ship - and transforms them into giant rats.
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From Content Item: FlagOut of the Shadows #6 published October 1952
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Images of Sand

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Genres: mystery
Synopsis: French gambler Henri Monard is washed up in Northern Africa, but learns about a Tuareg treasure in the Sahara desert. He kills for it and returns to Paris, indulging in luxury. But the curse of the Djenoun is upon him...
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From Content Item: FlagOut of the Shadows #12 published March 1954
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Five State Police Alarm

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From Content Item: FlagCrime Files #5 published September 1952
was Five State Police Alarm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Part Nine: Uniform Days

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About Jon Fury...

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Reprint Notes: From Wonderworld fanzine, 1973
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jon Fury
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Reprint Notes: from QM Depot Diary, 1955-1956
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More Than A Wife

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From Content Item: FlagMy Love Story #7 published April 1957
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Part Ten: We Are Family

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Disclose Notes: Includes excerpts and original art from Four Color #822, 845, 846, 877, 889, 920, 933, 960, 1014, 1024, 1085 (Dell, 1942); Buffalo Bill, Jr. and Calamity Coloring Book; Tonto Coloring Book; Maverick children's novel.
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Zorro's Secret Passage

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Genres: western
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From Content Item: FlagFour Color #882 published February 1958
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Safari in Troublesville

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Kookie; Stuart Bailey
Synopsis: Kookie subs for Stu Bailey in an investigation involving a beautiful young woman and a supposedly "cursed" painting.
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Part Eleven: Old Haunts & New Horizons

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Disclose Notes: Includes excerpts and original art from Brave and the Bold #53 (DC, 1955); Roy Rogers (12/27/60; 12/28/60; 1/12/61); Space Angel decal & production drawing
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Part Twelve: The Ties Unbind

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Bibliography of First Publication Dates

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Writer(s): Francisco San Millan; Axel Kahlstorff; Philippe Angeli; Jean-Michel Blanc
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Disclose Notes: Includes excerpts and original art from All-American Comics #98 (DC, 1939); All-Star Comics #41 (DC, 1940); Dale Evans Comics #9 (DC, 1948); Jimmy Wakely #13 (DC, 1949); Rex the Wonder Dog #1 (DC, 1952); Danger Trail #2 (DC, 1950); The Unseen #13 (Standard, 1952); Jet Fighters #5 (Standard, 1952); and Rockets and Range Riders #1 (Richfield Boron, 1957).

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