Silver Age Comics

This post was suggested by an emailer named Darell. I have talked previously about the terrific Gold Key series, Magnus, Robot Fighter.  I...

I don't know why, because I've always been an avid reader, but for some reason, while reading comic books of the early 1960s or befo...

In current comics , of course. Clark Kent quits the Daily Planet in Superman #13 — and he doesn’t go quietly. He resigns in front of the...

This is the second MGA issue featuring the Doom Patrol. As you can see, the "freaks and outcasts" theme that Arnold Drake was co...

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 ...