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Created by the Eisner Award-winning team of Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwellwho produced the ground-breaking Scorchy Smith and the Art of NoelSickles-Genius, Isolated is a lavishly illustrated book thatincludes the first biography of this giant figure. The book has been compiledwith complete access to the family archives, and with the full cooperation ofToth's children. To flesh out the complete story of his life and art, Mullaneyand Canwell have spent more than two years conducting wide-ranging interviewswith Toth's peers, friends, and family members. This is the beginning of acomics biography everyone will be talking about for years to come.In addition to art and photographs from the family, Toth fans and friendsthroughout the world have loaned original artwork reproduced in the entireseries. Included are many examples of Toth's art, from twenty-one completestories to rare pages, as well as-incredibly-a previously unknown,unfinished, and unpublished penciled story from the 1950s! The tome covers hisearliest stories at DC in the 1940s, his defining work at Standard, hisincomparable Zorro comics in the 1950s, and a special sectioncollects-for the first time-the Jon Fury pages that Tothproduced while in the army, a section that alone is worth the price ofadmission.Genius, Isolated details Toth's life story and work through theearly 1960s, when he began his sensational move into animated cartoons. Thesecond book in the series, Genius, Illustrated, continues thestory.
