Silver Age Comics

This was an issue that I didn't have back in the 1960s, but picked up on ebay.  You can see the entire premise for the story on that c...

Dobie was DC's only remaining teen star in the early 1960s; A Date With Judy was about to give up the ghost shortly after this particu...

Licensed comics were pretty common in the Silver Age.  It's not hard to see the appeal to the publishers; you can argue that every episo...

It is well-known that when Jack Kirby came over to DC in the early 1970s and started working on Jimmy Olsen as well as other titles, that Su...

From Lois Lane Annual #1, comes this list of "famous" old Lois Lane tales: Why the scare quotes? Well, it turns out that a fe...

From Magnus, Robot Fighter #10, May 1965, about 8 years before his first official work for DC (Weird War Tales) and about the same amount ...

A reader named Darell writes: When I was young, before I started collecting comics (I collected and traded them between 1960 and 1966) I...

Superman gets emphatic at the UN: This refers to a famous supposed incident when Nikita Kruschev, then ruler of the Soviet Union, suppose...

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...