Silver Age Comics

Mark Engblom has a terrific post up on transformations in general, which inspired me to create this one. As the character of Batman became ...

It's off-topic here, because the comic is from 1948, but I couldn't resist writing about this one. There have been plenty of bizarr...

The GCD is down right now, so I can't check the artist, but it's a beautiful cover with terrific inking and dynamic perspective. Th...

Comments: Classic headless horseman by Neal Adams. Note the way the tree draws our attention up to the title after we first focus on the co...

Comments: It's a "Great Scott!" cover; DC used that as its all-purpose expression of amazement. What can we deduce from this ...

The Brave & Bold team-up stories of the 1960s pose a problem for Batman fans. They're bad, but that's not really the crux; ther...

What do you see when the Fantastic Four's worst enemy bends over? Dr Doom was far from an original character. The name, Dr Doom, had co...

The Silver Age Superman was dramatically different from the Golden Age Superman. Aside from the very early stories, the Golden Age Superman...

In Flash #165 (Nov 1966), Barry Allen and Iris West finally get married. This was not DC's first wedding; Aquaman and Mera had finally ...

A buddy of mine scanned in this issue and I thought I'd do a solo issue review. Here's the cover: (Cover art by Jerry Grandinetti) ...

This is not the first time I have remarked on this, but when you look at the Silver Age DC they were miles ahead of Marvel in terms of their...

Sometimes even I'm surprised at what turns out to be well-grounded. I was reading Atom #10 (Dec 1963-Jan 1964). The second story in th...

I've talked a number of times in the past about the weird scientific fascism that many DC comics of the Silver Age appeared to endorse, ...

Two-Face was one of Batman's better villains. Harvey Kent (later changed to Dent) was a handsome District Attorney in Gotham City, with...

I haven't spent much time discussing funny animal-type comics on this blog so far. Of course, funny animal comics were not a huge segme...