Yes, the DCU should be like this
1964 marked the year Julius Schwartz gave up editorship at Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space in favor of Batman and Detective Comics (a topic I want to revisit in a …
Tag: silver age
“Say his name and even Superman shakes!”
For years, I’ve suffered the frustration of having Action #351 and #353 — the first and last parts of a continued story — without the middle section. Just last week, I rectified …
Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
An absent-minded professor, a doctor and a light-bulb: stories from 1963
Yep, it’s another of my posts looking at random stories from my Silver Age rereading that seemed worth of comment. There’s several more from 1963 I want to talk about, …
What is truth? Is truth unchanging taste? Avengers #60
When I was in my teens I read an old copy of Avengers #60 and I thought it was fantastic. Rereading “Till Death Do Us Part” by John Buscema …
There must have been something in the water. Or maybe the ink.
When I think of how the Silver Age changed comics, I usually think of Julius Schwartz, then Marvel, putting their distinctive stamps on the superhero genre. Rereading the Silver Age …
A world without superheroes: The birth of the Silver Age
Intellectually, I’ve known for years that between the Golden Age ending and the debut of Barry Allen in Showcase #4, superheroes were mostly dead in the water. My recent rereading …