Silver Age Comics

As I have discussed in the past, the secret identity thing could be considered a fate not quite as bad as death. That is, because even the ...

As the 1960s drew to a close, DC was under continuing financial pressure to raise prices due to inflation. As a result, many titles were ...

I've been working my way through the complete Action Comics run of the Silver Age, and stumbled on this panel: Gee, Perry, I don...

As many of you probably know, Superman's heat vision was not an early power. Both Superman and Superboy originally used "the heat...

When I wrote the last post, I looked ahead for the next few from Action #251 to see if there were any more appearances of the small (or larg...

This is one of the most important dividing points in the Silver Age of Comics, and yet, when you try to draw it, you realize just how shaky ...

I will not give my enemy 24 hours to get off Earth and never return. Previous posts in the " When I'm the Evil Genius " se...

I got the hankering to read a bunch of Metal Men issues in a row, and rather than try to cover the plots and such I thought it might be more...

Probably not terribly interesting, but I remember seeing these pictures and wondering exactly which issues they were from, and so I thought ...

To most of us kids, it seemed as if Brainiac was like Luthor; one of those villains who'd always been around.  It wasn't until later...