Silver Age Comics

As I mentioned the other day, I have been working my way through the mid-1950s Superboy issues looking for more swipes by Weisinger and comp...

I've been working my way through the mid-1950s issues of Superboy, looking for more stories that were later swiped by Weisinger, and the...

Some of which just ain't so.  Consider these two amazing "facts" which I discovered while reading a couple of Superboy issues ...

Superboy #60: Supernan #198: It's pretty obviously the gadget that somehow sees through clothing to reveal the S insignia on Su...

I wrote awhile back that I had read all the Action issues from #230-#240 and could not really note any discernable change in the editorial s...

At the JFK Library in Boston : Superman has finally soared into the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Legend...

And comets, meteors and rogue planets! Here's another thing I noticed in my reading of the Action Comics starting with #200. Superman ...

I've been remiss in posting a lot lately, but I've also been reading a lot of comics that fall outside the target of this blog; I...

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...