Silver Age Comics

Detective #27 arrived on the newsstands on April 18, 1939, launching the career of my favorite comic book character of all time. Bill Jourda...

Lord knows the Silver Age was not the best era for Batman, but even in the depths of that era he rarely appeared in a stinker quite as bad a...

I was flipping through this one today and thought with current events in the world it would make for a topical review. This is Johnny Romit...

1. According to Julius Schwartz, Hal Jordan was intended to look like what famous actor? In a letter column from Green Lantern #3, Julius Sc...

In the mid-1960s, comics experienced something of a boom due to demographics. This attracted new players to the comics biz. Tower Books, a...

1. According to Julius Schwartz, Hal Jordan was intended to look like what famous actor? 2. True or False: Hal Jordan did not know of the ex...

Note: I believe in this case the artists should be judged on the corpus of their work and not on future influence. In other words, there sh...

One of the oddities about the Green Lantern series in the Silver Age was the romantic triangle between Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris, and Green ...

The Beat Down has an excellent post on Valiant Comics and Jim Shooter, who famously got his start in the Silver Age as a young teen writing...

The 1940s Airboy comics included a backup feature called the Heap. The Heap was a World War I flying ace (for the Germans) who had been sho...

How would such a universe would work, and why anybody would care if somebody else was not a criminal? How exactly do you get reported for no...

To me, the key aspect of the Silver Age of Comics is that it was the only era in which comic books were seen as and intended to be juvenile ...

Unlike most DC characters of the Silver Age, Sgt. Rock did not spring to life full-blown and ready for an action figure set. For most of th...