Silver Age Comics

Okay, obviously this is a little off-topic, but late last month I was contacted by the writer of a new sci-fi comic who hoped for a review. ...

I wrote many years ago about the famed Action #309 issue, where Superman divulges his secret identity to President Kennedy so the later can...

Unforgettable Sights of a Paper World, a blog about comics from Antonio Gatti, an Italian comics blogger (don't worry, it's written...

Mark Engblom had a lot of fun with these a few years back but here's one he missed.  Apparently Superman can shrink or expand his muscl...

What do you do when someone offers to let you review their novel, as Andrez Bergen did, with Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? 1. ...

Okay, Golden Age, here but still quite funny: Take a tip from me, Wheaties, and don't fall in love with 30-year-old ballplayers who ...

I may have pointed this one out before but I came across it again, and just was awed: There's a lot there.  From the tropical pl...

Gotta love this, from Gold Key's "Peoples of Africa" #17, the East Indians: "Some" of the "young" girl...

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...