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| Zorro FC #882 |
(Walt Disney's) Zorro v1 / Four Color v2 #882, 1958 - Based on the tv series, Dell follows suit with an accompanying comic book series. Alex Toth's artwork is magnificent, displaying a level of detail and draftsmanship absent from previous Zorro issues. His scenes of 19th century California are utterly convincing, from the early streets of Los Angeles (see interior page below) to the grounds of a Spanish mission (second story, pages 5-8). Naturally, the sword-fighting scenes stand out with their precisely designed compositions. These stories were later reprinted in Zorro v2 #1. Photo cover. This is 1 of 8 Zorro issues by Toth. /// Toth gallery
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"Presenting Senor Zorro" Toth story pencils and inks 18 pages = *****
"Zorro's Secret Passage" Toth story pencils and inks 14 pages = *****
"The First Vaqueros" Toth inside back cover pencils and inks (black and white) = **
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"Presenting Senor Zorro" Toth story pencils and inks 18 pages = *****
"Zorro's Secret Passage" Toth story pencils and inks 14 pages = *****
"The First Vaqueros" Toth inside back cover pencils and inks (black and white) = **
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Zorro / Four Color v2 #882 - Alex Toth art
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Oddly enough, Toth's Don Diego looks more like Errol Flynn than Guy Williams!
The figures on the back cover seem a little awkward for Manning. I love this depiction of a local street in LA.
Seems like most of Toth's leading men looked like Errol Flynn. : )
Have collectors noticed the major goof in Dell FC882 where in the very first panel Don Diego is engaged in a practice duel with an unnamed opponent--a duel watched by at least 20 (visible as drawn by Alex Toth) passengers who will disembark in California along with Diego, his servant Bernardo, and the unnamed duel-opponent. Are to we assume that not a single one of those passengers will mention having witnessed Diego's skillful swordsmanship to family, friends, or--worse--the authorities during the time after landing, or are we to believe that Diego has somehow managed to swear every one of those passengers to secrecy along with faithful Bernardo and the presumably likewise-discreet duel-opponent?
Hah! Good point...
Further technical discrepancies occur in the first story where Zorro is assisting the falsely-accused and subsequently-arrested prisoner Nacho Torres to escape his jail cell. Captain Monastario witnesses the escape and fires his double-barrel flintlock pistol, "Bam, Blam!" and then immediately attempts to fire again, "click, click" when he would surely have realized that a mandatory, time-consuming reload would have been required to make that possible. Are we to believe that Monastario had a handy second pistol to fire off a total of four shots? If that was the case, it wasn't clearly depicted as such given the brief time-frame involved. Later on, in the second story, Sargeant Garcia is likewise shown to fire his double-barrel pistol four times. Understandably, the youthful readership of Zorro comics could be forgiven for being unaware of such significant facts regarding the limitations of specific firearms in use in that historical period. Besides, how many westerns have we seen and heard where American gunmen with six-shooter revolvers fire more than 6 shots without reloading?! I've lost count.
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