Silver Age Comics

These should be fairly tough: 1. Which of Jor-El's official duties did he hate? 2. When the young Jor-El was cramming for his exams, wha...

That is strange on many levels. Who wound the key after Superboy moved to Metropolis? Was Smallville's main drag so small that it was ...

Superman Fan has been doing a series of posts on the Greatest Imaginary Story You've Never Seen ( Part I and Part II ). Actually, I ha...

I have written about this previously, but sometime in 1958 Mort Weisinger and his writers and artists set about creating the character that ...

I will not leave my enemies their free will: Prior Entries in the " When I'm the Evil Genius " Series.

This is one of the few Action issues from around this era that I didn't have in my collection until recently, and all I can say is, good...

In March 1966, DC started a serialized story in their Secret Hearts romance comic. The story is set in Danville Corners, a small town somew...

Little Lulu was the creation of Marjorie Henderson Buell (generally abbreviated to Marge). She appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in sin...

Collectors Weekly has a terrific interview with Greg Theakston regarding Golden Age Comics in general. I found this quirky aside fascinati...

This story is symptomatic of one of the major problems with Superboy in the Silver Age. Characters that had been introduced in the Superman...

One of the keys to Marvel's success in the Silver Age was the relentless use of crossover stories to introduce the readers of one Marvel...