Silver Age Comics

Originally there was no Superboy. Clark Kent's childhood was not discussed in any great detail in Action Comics #1, with only one panel...

One of the more famous deaths in the Silver Age. Ferro Lad was the creation of Jim Shooter, then a teenaged wunderkind comic writer. As a ...

In October 1963, DC Comics published Lois Lane #44, which exposed the Daily Planet for the liberal rag that it is. The story "The Deat...

Lousy poetry, lousy artwork and a monster that somehow fails to terrify. This is the absolute nadir of the Wonder Woman series. Although t...

DC published 3,397 comics in the 1950s and upped that to 3,579 comics in the 1960s. Despite the reasonable similarity in overall numbers, D...

I'd sure like to be the guy selling desks to the Daily Planet; looks like Perry White's desks alone could put the kids through colle...

DC had several continuing storylines during the 1960s: Batman versus the Outsider (Detective #328, #334, #336, #340, #349 and #356). Batman...

Here are a couple panels from a rather bizarre story in Action #289. Supergirl decides to play cupid for Superman in this story, but each t...

This is one of the sillier covers out there. Note that Wonder Woman's comment does not add anything to our understanding of the story. ...

In Part I of my post on J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, I discussed some of his early exploits and powers. In this post I'...

In 1964 DC Comics recognized that Batman needed some shaking up. During the reign of Jack Schiff at Detective (265-326) and Batman (122-163...

I got the notion this weekend to read all the Martian Manhunter stories in Detective, starting with #225, the comic some feel marks the begi...

This site is mostly dedicated to the comics published from 1955-1970, although it may stray a bit at times.