Silver Age Comics

Jerry Grandenetti at his finest.

I haven't covered Archie Comics in this blog so far, but here's a terrific bit on Archie's slavish devotion to the latest fad .

In Atom #1, we meet the first recurring villain in the Atom saga; The Plant-Man, aka Jason Woodrue. Although human-appearing he's secre...

Actually the Hulk never really went away. Although his own comic was cancelled, the Hulk popped up in the first couple issues of the Avenge...

After the relaunches of the Flash, Green Lantern and Aquaman in Showcase and Hawkman in Brave and Bold, the next Golden Age character to get...

DC's heroes had them decades before the rest of us: Batman and Batwoman had a nice plasma TV: Some of the villains even had them: One as...

I'm probably not the first to notice this, but when Johnny Romita took over for Steve Ditko on Amazing Spiderman Stan Lee made it an imp...

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...