Silver Age Comics

Commander Benson's been posting on the Blackhawk series under DC, and I happened to catch this particular comment: In 1956, National Pe...

1. What did Dick Grayson and Kathy Kane have in common? (No, not that !) 2. Who was Bat-Boy? 3. Who was Batman Jones? 4. Who was Mr. Marvel...

Often cited by those who are big on dividing lines as marking the end of the Silver Age Batman, Detective #395 includes the first O'Neil...

Obviously a huge talent, mostly associated with the Golden Age EC Comics, although he did do some select comics in the Silver Age, including...

When will they get with modern, enlightened thought when it comes to landlord mastication? This panel comes to us un-retouched from a Batman...

The penultimate issue of the Jack Schiff era, this comic symbolizes many of the problems that plagued the Batman series for most of the Silv...

A longtime commenter sent me an email requesting a review of this issue, so I thought I'd tackle it. For starters, the pencils are by J...

One of the significant events in the Superboy series during the Silver Age was the arrival of Mon-El on Earth. He became something of the p...

An extremely mediocre cover, even worse than last month's. The FF's HQ is nowhere near ground level, and anyway wouldn't that h...

A number of bloggers have given me the Kreativ Blogger award. I appreciate the honor. However, this award has gotten to be kind of like ...

The appeal of these types of covers should be obvious. As with so many Weisinger-edited magazines, this cover presents a puzzle to the read...