Silver Age Comics

In their first several appearances, the members of the Legion of Super-Heroes were somewhat asexual. This is not that surprising, since the...

Hmmm: Hank Weisinger ? I'm guessing it's Mort's son, because Mort himself was from Great Neck, as mentioned here : For many yea...

I happened to be flipping through some old Action issues today and noticed this trend. In Action #254-255 we have the first appearance of t...

Just in case you thought Speedy on Smack was the first drug mention in a Green Lantern comic, check out this letter from Green Lantern #18 (...

This panel comes from Green Lantern #12 (April 1962). Of course, about 6 months earlier, Roger Maris (Ramis jumbled) had broken the record ...

For its first 330 issues, Detective Comics had always published multiple stories, but this issue provides a book-length tale combining the t...

Over at Silver Age Gold, there's a post on what a bee-yatch Iris West (later Iris Allen) could be. As I mentioned in the comments, tha...

One of the more interesting sagas in the DC Silver Age was the death of Lightning Lad. Although these death and resurrection stories have be...

Jacque Nodell gave a paper at a convention on pop culture, about the romantic era (roughly 1968-72) of Lois Lane, Supergirl, and Wonder Woma...

Mark Engblom did a terrific series back in 2008 on Superman's Fortress of Solitude, concluding with a look at 12 different Fortresses h...

These covers became a cliché of the war comics genre, starting in the late 1960s and extending well into the 1970s. Here's a classic ex...