Alex Toth Dies.
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Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons such as The Superfriends and Space Ghost, has died.
Toth died while sitting at his drawing table at his home in Burbank on May 27, his son Eric said. He was 77.
Eric Toth said the cause of death had not yet been determined, but his father had been in failing health for years.
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Drawing for Hanna Barbera in the 1960s and 1970s, Toth designed characters for adventure cartoons Jonny Quest and The Herculoids in addition to The Superfriends and Space Ghost, and he achieved the wider recognition and commercial success that had eluded him.
"The work he did there touched more lives than anything else he had done," said Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics. "He found ways to take characters like Superman from their more complicated printed form into a simpler form for animation that still held on to their power and majesty."
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Toth is survived by sons Eric and Damon Toth, daughters Dana Palmer and Carrie Morash, and four grandchildren.
At Alex Toth's request, no memorial service was planned.
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