Silver Age Comics

I wrote recently about the end of the Green Arrow feature in World's Finest. One of the tragedies in GA's demise was that a budding...

We've talked a lot about the rebirth of old features in the Silver Age, like the Flash and Green Lantern, and of course Captain America,...

He wasn't invulnerable, he wasn't even strong. Unlike most heroes of the time, he had no swagger to his walk, no false bravado. He...

I've often thought this was so, but decided to take a brief look at it with this post. In the GA and the early Silver Age, DC, like man...

Occasionally during the Silver Age, writers got the idea to tell the story from the standpoint of an inanimate object. I've written in ...

Of the Silver Age was undoubtedly Adolf Hitler. Of course he mostly appeared in World War II comics like Sgt Fury and Our Army at War, but ...

In the Golden Age, DC put out a couple oversized, omnibus books. Comic Cavalcade (initially) was dedicated to the All-American superheros: ...

The DC Silver Age superheros appeared to have teenage sidekicks almost at random. Batman did certainly, Superman did sort of, but Green Lant...

This is not really a hard thing to work out. First, of course, is Showcase #4, the comic that started the superhero revival that is probabl...

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Here's an oddball early teamup of Spidey and the Human Torch. Marvel quite naturally wanted to establish some bond between their two te...

No, not the one that happened today, the one that took place during the Silver Age. In Captain America #111. Cap was in a battle with the ...

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...