Plot Summary of Hot Wheels
DCs collective foot floored the pedal after acquiring the rights to publish a comic based on Mattels enormously popular Hot Wheels die cast car line. The company even hired Alex Toth to draw it, since the legendary artist had designed the lines characters for a Saturday morning cartoon show. Toths inaugural issue with writer Joe Gill chronicled turbo charged teen Jack Wheeler and his Hot Wheels pit crew matching horse power against Dexter Carter and his Demons. The comic ran out of gas after only 6 issues, but Toths aerodynamic story telling fueled a series that took licensed tie ins in a bold new direction.
