Silver Age Comics

There’s a fair amount of competition for the dishonor of the worst Batman story of the Silver Age. Although this time period was when I for...

Spiderman (no, I'm not going to use the hyphen) debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15. It was the final issue of that title. Reportedly sales...

(Welcome fellow Fred Hembeck fans!) Here's an unfortunate pairing. From the letters column in Superboy #92: And the cover of the very ...

Superman was not blessed with terrific enemies during the Golden Age. For various reasons (most likely Captain Marvel), Superman began to t...

Lexorian "Justice" Okay, day before the trial we spin the wheel of fortune and whoever gets picked defends the evil criminal Super...

This was something DC got into in the late 1950s and early 1960s, whereby some inanimate object or other would tell "its story". ...

This one's a little outside the Silver Age (1952), but I had to post it anyway: Plastic Man as Minuteman?

Fred Hembeck writes on the 1961 price increase in comics from 10 cents to 12 cents. I'm only a couple years younger than Fred, but I g...

One of my favorite issues of the Silver Age, it featured a team-up of Hal Jordan, the Silver Age GL and his Golden Age counterpart, Alan Lad...

Let's see if we can get a little audience participation going here. I'd like to put a strip of covers at the top of the blog. I kn...

The Human Torch and Toro get a little too personal:

From Amazing Spiderman #6: Uh, "arms"? He's only got one, remember?

Scooter was DC's attempt to cash in on the teen humor success of Archie, and Beatlemania. He was a British lad with a Vespa (hence Scoo...

Here's a hilarious bit from Superman #170: Um, that's quite a clock; each hour represents a billion years? And there are no smaller...

Today, for obvious reasons, I thought I'd talk a little bit about romance comics of the Silver Age. Now romance comics don't get a ...

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This advice gem comes from Debbi's Dates #9 (1970):

Adventure #244 (Jan 1958) is not a famous issue, but it does have some historical significance. One of the backup features in Adventure at ...

Of all the Silver Age characters, Herbie Popnecker is undoubtedly one of the most unusual. The 1960s, when Herbie became a surprise hit, we...