Silver Age Comics

Comic publishers were ever alert for the latest trends among adolescent boys. When the secret agent craze hit in the mid-1960s with James B...

Most of DC's teen heroes showed some signs of aging, although obviously at nothing like the calendar's pace. In Action #270, (Novem...

DC played lots of tricks on Jimmy Olsen, but this certainly takes the cake: And on the splash panel for the story it's played for comedy...

Mark Engblom has been covering Superman's rather creepy Fortress of Solitude in a series of entertaining (and revealing) posts. Highly...

I had to comment on this comic: The Incredible Hulk #141 is dated August 1971, so it's just outside my normal focus, but it's such a...

Nothing will be too easy, too painless: More of the "When I'm the Evil Genius" posts here .

The October 1958 issue of Adventure Comics featured a rare team-up of the two major teen stars of DC at the time, Superboy and Robin. Of co...

The worst character lasting the duration of the Silver Age is pretty easy to pinpoint. Wonder Woman, aka Diana Prince, had a lost decade an...

It's very common these days for comic characters to appear in pop songs, but it was not common prior to the 1980s, so I thought I would ...

One of the more durable villains in the Marvel Universe was the Wizard. He first appeared in Strange Tales #102, where we learn that he...

Did he have a thing for the Thing? Not that there's anything wrong with that. From Fantastic Four #65, August 1967, comes this amusing ...

This is a rather odd cover; the obvious "puzzle" would have been Lois getting the high card and choosing the new guy. In Superboy ...

I will not conceive a still greater revenge: Entire When I'm the Evil Genius series, click here .

One of the odder bits in the Silver Age seemed to be the obsession with spanking. There were a lot of comics that featured some form of sma...