Silver Age Comics

Boltinoff's gag strips were a nearly ubiquitous feature of DC's magazines from the 1940s to the 1960s. I haven't taken too clos...

Much of what seems bizarre to modern (i.e., younger) comics fans is actually quite explicable to those who understand the kid culture of the...

The Silver Age Sage reviews one of my favorite stories , the Night of the Reaper from Batman #237. I will never forget this sequence, the gr...

As the 1960s neared a close, the comics companies found themselves under increasing pressure. As I have noted in the past, demographic chan...

A longtime buddy posts about the Sea Hunt comics put out by Dell in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sea Hunt was a TV show that ran from 19...

As I have mentioned in the past, Mort Weisinger operated on the assumption that his readership turned over completely every seven years, and...

DC was able to launch several series in the early 1960s featuring characters without super-powers. Sea Devils, Challengers of the Unknown, ...

It started, as did many things in that simpler era, with a letter. A young man wrote to Julius Schwartz, editor at DC Comics, inquiring as ...