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Wagon Train #5, 1960 - Like many Dell Publishing issues during the 1950s and 1960s, this western series coincided with a network television show. The photographic cover features lead actors Ward Bond and Robert Horton. Inside, Alex Toth's short story is the smallest contribution, sandwiched between two main features. His hurried, loosely rendered drawings lack much needed definition. Backgrounds

The Unseen #12, 1953 - In only four pages, Alex Toth tells the tale of an overbearing husband and his apparent ability to bring his dead wife back to life. On the opening panel, the artist's placement of lithe, feminine hands surrounding an automobile accident is strangely compelling. His clever use of silhouettes and shadows throughout the pages are more powerful in their subtlety than the usual

Sugar Bowl Comics #3, 1948 - While artistically superior to the other stories within the same issue, Alex Toth nonetheless struggles with some of the basics. Figure drawing, foreshortening and even basic composition are lacking here, but these skills would be finely tuned in subsequent years. One revealing highlight of this story is his early inclination toward heaving inking. He shows an