Silver Age Comics

This is a topic I will be returning to over time to add details. Comic books were always interested in cutting-edge technology, and compute...

In JLA #37-38, DC brought back the JSA for the third teamup with the Justice League. Once again, they continued to rotate the characters. ...

I've always liked this particular issue, for several reasons. First, it features Batwoman and Robin working together. Why? Well, beca...

In 1963, Marvel really got hopping. For September of that year, they turned out not one, but two new superhero teams. The first, The Aveng...

This is another post, like my Batman and Guns post, that will be regularly updated as I come across interesting stuff to add to it. To mos...

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...