Silver Age Comics

What do they have in common? 1. Stone Boy, the Blob and Metamorpho? All turned down the opportunity to join one of the superhero teams. Res...

I did a pair of posts a year or two ago on the number of punches thrown in Batman versus Spiderman , on the basis that Marvel Comics were o...

Did you ever notice that the superheroes that Julius Schwartz resurrected in the Silver Age were the All-American heroes? DC actually was t...

1. Stone Boy, the Blob and Metamorpho? 2. Batman, Aquaman and Green Arrow? 3. Tommy Tomorrow, Congo Bill and the Legion of Super-Heroes? 4. ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again; ACG is the great unknown comic book publisher of the Silver and Golden Age. It's unk...

The cultural and historical significance of this issue is pretty obvious. Back in 1968, the battle over the Vietnam War was raging in Ameri...

Rather than go into detail about the plots of these issues, I'd prefer to take a broad-brush approach. Hulk #102 was the first issue of...

In the first story, Lois finds herself playing second banana to The Star Reporter of Metropolis . Mary Kenyon, a young college graduate, ap...

The opening story is Superman's Neighbors . The plot concept is obviously cribbed from the famed Alfred Hitchcock movie, Rear Window. ...

Reader Jeff Daugherty of Princeton, Kentucky, notes that many of the famed Silver Age characters from the House of Ideas debuted on the cove...