Silver Age Comics

Heheh, I was looking for more Batman and aliens stuff when I stumbled across this rather amusing mistake in Detective #271. In the story, B...

The DC Silver Age was marked by the emergence of new characters based on old characters, but with significant changes. Jay Garrick was no l...

Julius Schwartz tells a famous anecdote in Man of Two Worlds, his autobiography, about how in the early days of the Justice League of Americ...

Where the Betty/Veronica rivalry for Archie's affections started? Bill Jourdain has the 411. Why Rita (Elasti-Girl from the Doom Patro...

Julius Schwartz, in his autobiography, Man of Two Worlds, laid down Rule #1 for being a successful editor in the Silver Age: If you don'...

1. True or false: Ray Palmer is a professor at Ivy University. False: Ray is a grad student and research scientist at Ivy U. 2. What retired...

Picking up with IM #7, we discover that the Maggia is almost ready to attack Stark's plant, but they've got to figure out a way of d...

This panel is completely unretouched, from a copy of New Funnies #247, September 1957. And yes, that is Woody Woodpecker. Update: Another o...

1. True or false: Ray Palmer is a professor at Ivy University. 2. What retired professor at Ivy invented the Time Pool, by which the Atom tr...

I have talked a bit about American Comics Group in the past. ACG was a small publisher, putting out about 1100 comics over from 1945-1967, ...

In 1961, Roger Maris clubbed 61 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth's longstanding record. The Green Bay Packers defeated the New York Giants...

With this character currently featured in the DC universe, I thought I'd go back to his first appearance in the Silver Age, in Green Lan...