The Fox by Irwin Hasen (March, 1941)

Story by Joe Blair; Art by Irwin Hasen

Another great adventure of The Fox from Blue Ribbon Comics #10, March 1941, atomicly enhanced for your pleasure!

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The Fox is © the current copyright holders.

The origin of The Fox

The Fox by Alex Toth

The Origin of The Fox (1940) by Irwin Hasen

The Fox © current copyright holders

The Fox was created by writer Joe Blair and artist Irwin Hasen, and this story is his first appearance and origin from Blue Ribbon Comics #4 (June 1940). Hasen also worked on Johnny Thunder, the JLA, The Flash and The Green Lantern.

Irwin was frequently complimented in print by a Alex Toth who also illustrated some Fox stories for Red Circle Comics back in the '80's (you can see one here).

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Fortunately the goofy costume with the shirt shelves sticking out morphed into a more traditional crime-fighting costume over the course of the strip. As it stands, this story has a nice Bob Burden feel about it - one would almost expect The Flaming Carrot to show up!

Adventures Into Darkness! (1953)

More Halloween goodies from Adventures Into Darkness #12, from Dec., 1953! And who did that great cover logo!?


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“The Living Dead of Kulatum” might be by Jack Katz, while “Nightmare” may be by Bernard (The Spectre) Baily.

FYI, AID #12 leads off with a great story by Alex Toth, Serpent of Doom!, that you can read over at The Horrors of It All.

The Boy Who Saved The World by Alex Toth (1952)

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Fantastic Worlds #6 , November, 1952, Literary Enterprises, Inc.
Art by Alex Toth


... Toth couldn't help but design cool characters...!

... plus,
fun sun science facts from the same issue:

We Found The Super-Tribes of Tomorrow (1963) by Alex Toth

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My Greatest Adventure #77 (March 1963) © DC Comics
Art by Alex Toth



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The Vanguard (1977) by Alex Toth

The return of The Fox to the DC universe has drawn attention to the great Alex Toth version of the character> that briefly ran for too few stories in the ill-fated Red Circle comic line back in the late 1970’s. I seem to remember that the following Vanguard story published in Sal Quartuccio’s ‘ground level’ (remember that term?) Hot Stuf was reworked by Toth from an unpublished Fox story.

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The Vanguard © Alex Toth from Hot Stuf #4, 1977
Art & Story by Alex Toth