Silver Age Comics

Following his return in Action #254 and #255, Bizarro made several more appearances. Apparently the character was popular enough that DC ga...

Bizarro returned in Action Comics #254, July 1959. Lex Luthor happened to discover an old newspaper story about Superboy's initial enco...

The Fortress Keeper has a terrific post (his 100th) on Wonder Woman playing baseball with simians. Hilarious stuff; be sure to check out W...

DC typically did not launch new comic books without some sort of trial run first in Showcase or Brave & Bold. But in May 1964, DC broke...

I confess I had forgotten about this guy: The smoking banana peel is a gag that runs throughout the story. According to a popular myth of t...

The always-alert Laura Gjovaag pointed out in the comments that Lady Blackhawk is currently appearing in Birds of Prey as Oracle's pilo...

I dunno is the short answer. I'd like to is the longer one. Mike at DC Indexes , which is a terrific site, has a master list of DC Com...

Harvey Comics had quite a bit of success in the 1960s, with one breakout superstar (Richie Rich) and several titles that appealed mainly to ...

In the late 1950s, DC began introducing female counterparts to their male heroes. Batman had Batwoman, Superman had Supergirl, and Blackhaw...

The first Bizarro appeared in Superboy #68, October 1958. Superboy is on hand to watch Professor Dalton try out his new duplicator ray. U...

Iron Man debuted in Tales of Suspense #39, March 1963. Robots had appeared in many comics previously, and even the concept of a man inside ...

A Russ Heath classic from 1963. Click 1-2 times to see at full size.

These are the last five issues that Steve Ditko produced before leaving Marvel. Unfortunately they are a relatively mediocre batch of stori...

This is another excellent run of Spiderman, with several classics and no clunkers. ASM #28 features Peter Parker's graduation from high ...

Although most of what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby touched turned to gold in the 1960s, as pointed out by commenter Thelonius Nick, in mid-1963 t...

Superman #145 contained an interesting surprise for its regular readers; an oddball little adventure: As you can probably see (click to expa...

The first superhero comic I can remember reading (Adventure #320) featured Dev-Em. I am reasonably sure that it was not actually the first ...

Led by a man in a wheelchair. Sound familiar? Well, yes, it describes the X-Men. But it also describes a group who debuted months before ...

As I have remarked before, there was a vast difference in the origins of DC heroes and Marvel Heroes. The Marvels, perhaps reflecting early...

Will he save the West? Or ruin it? That was the tag line for DC's rather interesting Bat Lash series from the late 1960s. First off, I ...