Go here to read the first part of Bravo for Adventure.
And go here to read the second part of Bravo for Adventure.
There are technically only three Bravo for Adventure installments. The central one is the 48-page vintage tale of airplanes, dames, crime and such. Another is a four-page introduction to the character Toth produced, while the third is a bizarre 17-page Alice in Wonderland like surreal journey Jesse Bravo experiences when he's hit in the head with an airplane prop. The latter seemed more an experiment for Toth to play with imagery than anything else.
Alex Toth was a legendary artist who was famously gruff and yet also famously generous. He worked his whole career to make his art as attractive as as efficient as possible. To this reader's mind, he succeeded masterfully with Bravo for Adventure.
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This is one of my all time favourite Alex Toth comics. I missed this when it appeared in the Rook but picked up the Dragon Lady Press book when it came out. The story is so evocative of the era in which it is set with Toth's Errol Flynn's inspired character . Some stunning pages and a very nice story. Different but wonderful times both in the setting of the actual story and the 1980s when I bought this. Great stuff, Toth was a comic book genius whose legacy seems to have inspired some of today's artist like the wonderful Chris Samnee.
ReplyDeleteToth tried for perfection and with Bravo for Adventure he came damn near close to it.
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