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BURBANK, Calif. -- Alex Toth, a maverick comic artist who designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons like as "The Superfriends" and "Space Ghost" died May 27 his son Eric Toth said. He was 77

Eric Toth said the cause of death had not over and above been determined, but his father had been in failing health for years.

Before working in animation, Mr Toth was a comic work artist, widely regarded as brilliant, who had a certain quantity of success but even more frustration.

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He rarely held forward to an artist job for lengthy because of a simple, artful drawing style and a stubborn adherence to his artistic principles. And he preferr pirate tales and westerns athwart the more popular superhero comics.

Mr Toth was born in of recent origin York, where he lived and worked until settling in San Jose in the late 1950 While living there he worked for dale Comics on titles derived from television indicates like "Sea Hunt" and "Zorro." That l to animation work in Southern California, where he mov in 1964

Drawing for Hanna Barbera in the 1960 and 1970 Mr 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 succes that had elud him.

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