Silver Age Comics

Luthor: We'll get these Superman dolls-- Brainiac: Action figures you mean, not dolls. Only girls play with dolls. Saturn Queen: Watch ...

In the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book from the late 1970s, Godel, Escher, Bach, the writer Douglas R. Hofstadter illustrated a problem of abstr...

This is one of those issues that I had not read until recently. As you can see, this is one of DC's classic puzzle covers. Why would Cl...

1. By what term did Marvel refer to DC Comics in the Silver Age? Answer: Brand Echh, as first pointed out by Kryp44. Cultural reference: TV...

1. By what term did Marvel refer to DC Comics in the Silver Age? 2. In retaliation, by what term did a DC comics reader suggest that Marvel ...

Beaucoup Kevin is providing coverage of the San Diego Comic Convention for those who are not there. Dial B for Blog is doing a 16-day celeb...

Good job, all five questions were answered by commenters: 1. After Green Arrow announced his first resignation from the Justice League due t...

There are only a few comic characters of the Silver Age who qualify as "franchises". That is, they were so successful that they s...

1. After Green Arrow announced his first resignation from the Justice League due to an unspecified threat, what did his fellow JLA members d...

This is an excellent post on one of the under-rated characters of the Silver Age of Comics. John Jones was very much like Detective Sergean...

Marvel introduced many memorable female characters in the 1960s. One of the more interesting was the Black Widow. She first appeared as an...

I will not savor this glorious moment: Click for the rest of the "When I'm the Evil Genius" series.

One of the more amusing things about the Silver Age DC are its visions of the future. Obviously the technology is interesting, but they als...

There were two major stories in the DC Silver Age that crossed over into several titles. Nowadays these "events" are commonplace,...

I pointed out a couple months ago, the 3/4 shot where an onlooker to the panel provided us with a visual clue so that we could determine the...