Silver Age Comics

Lois Lane famously appeared alongside Clark Kent in Action Comics #1. In the early Superman stories, Lois appears to despise Clark, who lov...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s war comic books became more popular, mirroring trends in pop culture as a whole. As the World War II gene...

Pete Ross was a moderately interesting character in the Superboy/Superman mythos. Young Clark Kent meets Pete in Superboy #86, when a coupl...

DC had a tough time launching Hawkman in the 1960s. The first three tryouts, in Brave & Bold #34-36 apparently did not sell well enough...

Probably no character changed more and more often in the Silver Age than Chop-Chop, the humorous sidekick of the more serious Blackhawks. I...

The success that DC and Marvel had with the great superhero revival of the 1960s did not go unnoticed. As discussed, ACG, which had resiste...

Although the Leader had been mentioned in earlier issues, we first actually meet him in Tales to Astonish #63. The story follows the standa...

This August 1957 issue is still done in the GA style with Harry Peter's inimitable style. The first story concerns a missing train that...

This is arguably outside the normal realm of this blog, as it was published by ACG in 1954. During a brief era of popularity for 3-D comics...

I skipped over the annuals in the discussion of the Ditko Spiderman, so I thought I'd take a quick rowback and rectify that situation. ...

American Comics Group was a long-lived company, lasting from the Golden Age right up to the end of the Silver Age. At various times, they c...

By these issues, Peter was becoming so "hip" that the series seemed more like Archie at times: Of course, based on what we know no...

With Romita taking over on the art chores two issues earlier, Amazing Spiderman began a new direction with #41. Peter begins to show increa...

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...