Silver Age Comics

Or, who says comics aren't educational?  Stan seemed to have an inexhaustible thesaurus of put-downs, aspersions and invectives: I c...

One of the central themes running through DC comics in the Silver Age was a reverence for science combined with skepticism for applied scien...

A rather surprising response from Weisinger, who generally portrayed Krypton as far more advanced than Earth. Of course, you can see the ...

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 ...