Silver Age Comics

Was seldom presented so starkly by DC in the 1960s as with the Flash and the Reverse Flash. The Reverse Flash, also known as Professor Zoom...

One oddity about comics is how seldom we encounter relatives of superheroes, especially siblings. Kal-El had no brothers or sisters; neithe...

Quick, name a DC series that started out in Mystery in Space, then continued in Strange Adventures in the 1960s. Did you say Adam Strange? ...

Now that is creepy. As a kid you could buy the notion that scientists were gods and that they never screwed up, but as an adult, the idea o...

In Flash #106-108 we were introduced to a complete different civilization, not living on another planet, but here on Earth. Gorilla City is ...

Of all the comic characters to make it through the Silver Age, Wonder Woman seems the least likely. Her comic was embarrassingly bad during...

This is slightly outside the range for the Silver Age, as it appeared in the March 1951 issue of Action Comics, but it's such a surprisi...

ASM #50 begins another cycle of the Spiderman saga. As in ASM#17-18, Spidey is in a fight when Aunt May takes ill. Once again, Peter decid...

The DD series began to hit its stride in these issues. For starters, each issue featured a new villain. In #3, DD first faced the Owl, who...

Daredevil first appeared in April 1964, in Daredevil #1. He was something of a new concept; a handicapped superhero. True, Don Blake was l...

As we have discussed, the Inhumans saga ended (temporarily) about six pages into Fantastic Four #48. But that issue was also significant fo...

One of the hazards of comic books is that a writer may pen a story when the future seems far off and then time passes and suddenly that futu...

One thing I don't get into much around here is the fan aspect to comic book publishing. I liked comics but only attended one comic conv...

In the early 1960s, the World War II generation began to come into power. This was reflected in both politics, where Navy veteran John F. K...

Following the Fantastic Four, the next super-powered hero to appear in the pages of a Marvel comic was the Ant-Man (technically, anyway). H...

The Payola scandal involved (as this cover implies) the effort by record companies to bribe deejays to play their records. It hit the news...

A friend of mine suggested I review this terrific story from Superman #137 (May 1960): It starts with a brief retelling of Superman's or...

Overall, these stories don't move the character forward. Stan still seems to be struggling to find someone tough enough to fight Thor t...

It's well-established that prototypes for many Marvel characters appeared in the horror mags the company specialized in prior to the rel...