Silver Age Comics

The second JLA/JSA teamup took place in Justice League of America #29-30. The first issue features probably my favorite JLA cover ever: In ...

After bringing back the Golden Age Flash in Flash #123's memorable Flash of Two Worlds , Gardner Fox followed up with Flash #137's V...

I've talked a little bit about American Comics Group, a small publisher that managed to put out about 1,150 comics from the late 1940s t...

Pat Boone was seemingly made for DC, with his squeaky-clean earnest image. From 1955-57 he recorded several #1 hits. In 1959 he branched o...

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...