Silver Age Comics

Again With the Comics covers the Jimmy Olsen Helmet of Hate story , with some appropriate sarcasm. It is amazing to consider the wild schem...

Although the story is well-known to us today, kids in the 1940s and 1950s would be forgiven for not knowing it by heart, as it was seldom me...

Okay so Lois is pretty sick in the head: But check out what turns Superman on: Not that there's anything wrong with that.

This is another example of the women who began to pop up in the DC magazine line during the late 1950s and early 1960s; I still don't q...

After all, how much more thoughtless can you be than to have a picture of yourself framed with the inscription, "All my love, Karen,...

One of the more bizarre sagas from Marvel in the 1960s concerned Matt (Daredevil) Murdock's "twin brother", Mike. As I have d...

That wish could be interpreted in more than one way: How strong is the Hulk? Strong enough to defy gravity.

As the 1960s drew to a close, DC began to experiment more. Whereas previous titles had almost always required a tryout issue or two in Show...

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...