Silver Age Comics

This is actually the last issue of Detective in the Silver Age, dated December 1970. For those who weren't around then, this was the he...

Jimmy Olsen was a durable character in the Silver Age. He did not appear a lot in the Golden Age comics, although he was a regular on the S...

Here's a humorous Peg short from Superman #136 on a leap year tradition: This sequence from Lois Lane #19 might be a little surprising: ...

One of the more durable plot ideas of the 1960s was the concept of the doppleganger, the criminal version of the hero. The appeal of these ...

Depending on your religion, it's either the fifth or the sixth of the Ten Commandments . It came up as part of a discussion over at Com...

The late 1960s were a time of change for DC Comics. This became startlingly obvious in Green Lantern #49, the December 1966 issue. GL'...

Mark Engblom has a very cool post up about Robin , and the seemingly endless ways he appeared on DC covers looking on and commenting as Batm...

Obviously ahead of their times, the Mothers of Invention ran ads that did not make it clear what they were advertising.

I will not disgrace my enemies before eyes of the entire world:

A play, as George M. Cohan pointed out, is composed of three acts. In Act I, you get the hero up a tree. In Act II, you throw stones at hi...

Of all the characters that DC reintroduced in the Silver Age, Aquaman has to be considered the most unique, for many reasons. First, he was...