Silver Age Comics

I went to see the Man of Steel movie yesterday.  I enjoyed it a lot, although I will confess that I started out a little suspicious, especia...

On one tidy page .  Couple of errors there that I have alerted them to in the artists' names.

With the Justice League of America, Julius Schwartz and Gardner Fox had something of a problem.  During the JSA's run in All-Star during...

I've lusted after this book for quite awhile, but when it first came out in 2009 I was too broke, and the local comic store had it shrin...

One of the major talents of the Silver Age has passed.  Some of my favorite covers of his: Here's a guide that Infantino crea...

Marvel came out with the Ultimates series around 2000.  The idea was to create new series about their most popular characters, without requi...

In early 1959, Whitney Ellsworth's name finally disappeared as editor from the indicia of every DC comic. It is well-established that he...

You gotta love these two panels from a particularly wacky story appearing in Lois Lane #28: The first one doesn't really make much...

I was looking through Action #42 (November 1941) and came across this announcement: That third prize winner's name sure sounds famil...

The Marvel covers did not start out all that different from the DC covers, although that soon changed.  The early Fantastic Four covers feat...

This is something I've been mulling over for awhile.  Obviously every character is different, and presents different challenges for the ...

I have been reading a bunch of Carl Barks' magnificent Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories lately and one thing that caught my attenti...

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...