Silver Age Comics

In January of 1966, the Batman TV show debuted and it seemed like the whole country went Bat-mad.  Perhaps in an effort to make clear the ot...

And I confess, enjoying the time much more than I would have expected.  I wasn't a big Ramona Fradon fan from her work on Aquaman, but s...

He's "so different" from the original Superman of Krypton?  He's got a slightly different appearance, but he still has a...

For most of their history up until about 1959, DC's war and science fiction magazines had not featured continuing characters.  Instead t...

Gotta love this panel from World's Finest 113: That's using your head, Supes!

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One of the continuing sagas in the Silver Age Superman was the Anti-Superman Gang.  Actually that's probably overstating things a bit; i...

It was not in my collection back in the 1960s, and although I am a Batman fanatic, I somehow missed reading this story even when I got the i...

In Jimmy Olsen #28, Jimmy gets caught in a whirlwind that Superman created to stop a hurricane from hitting Metropolis, and is transported t...

I talked a few years ago about a very goofy story in Lois Lane #36 , where everybody at the Daily Planet pretended that they never heard of ...

Usual comic book serendipity thing.  I was poking through some back issue bins at the local comic shop and I came across some issues of a co...

Of all the quirky titles that DC published near the end of the Silver Age, this must surely be the oddest.  Well, aside from Brother Powe...

Mort Weisinger's enthusiasm for swiping story ideas from earlier issues of Superboy does not seem as high as it was for Adventure Comics...