Silver Age Comics

Issues Covered: Batman #97-#104 and Detective #227-238 Significant Stories: Many. Detective #227 continues where #226 left off, showing us ...

During 1955, Batman appeared in Batman #s 89-96, Detective #s 215-226, and World's Finest #s 74-79. The Superman/Batman teamups had sta...

(This has been Crossposted to Brainster's Blog , in a condensed version). This is Cookie O'Toole. (You can click on the pictures ...

One of my all-time favorite Superman stories is the three-parter from Superman #132, where we learn what would have happened to Kal-El had K...

DC introduced Adam Strange in Showcase #17, (Nov-Dec 1958). He was an archaeologist, who, in an attempt to escape bloodthirsty natives, jum...

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The first appearance of the Legion was in Adventure #247, April 1958. Superboy is startled when several young people reveal that they know ...

It's in Salon , so you have to put up with an ad to read the whole thing, but it's worth the effort. Sixties hipsters thought that D...

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...