Lexorian "Justice"Okay, day before the trial we spin the wheel of fortune and whoever gets picked defends the evil criminal Superman for murdering the wonderful Luthor. Lexor is not Krypton, but this is creepy DC scientofascism [...]
Talking Inanimate Objects
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This was something DC got into in the late 1950s and early 1960s, whereby some inanimate object or other would tell "its story". Here are just two examples from Wonder Woman #86 and #88 (1957).These are not even the worst [...]
Early Relevant Comics Part II
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 26 tháng 2, 2006
This one's a little outside the Silver Age (1952), but I had to post it anyway:Plastic Man as Minutem [...]
Childhood Inflation
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Năm, 23 tháng 2, 2006
Fred Hembeck writes on the 1961 price increase in comics from 10 cents to 12 cents. I'm only a couple years younger than Fred, but I got into comics fairly late (age 13) and so my big case of sticker shock came in 1968, when comics went from 12 cents [...]
Green Lantern #45
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One of my favorite issues of the Silver Age, it featured a team-up of Hal Jordan, the Silver Age GL and his Golden Age counterpart, Alan Ladd (Correction per comment by redmans: the GA GL was Alan Scott. Supposedly the [...]
Your Favorite Silver Age Covers?
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Bảy, 18 tháng 2, 2006
Let's see if we can get a little audience participation going here. I'd like to put a strip of covers at the top of the blog. I know how to do it; I just need some suggestions for the best Silver Age covers. One of my [...]
Don't Let Dr Wertham See This!
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The Human Torch and Toro get a little too person [...]
An Unfortunate Error
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From Amazing Spiderman #6:Uh, "arms"? He's only got one, rememb [...]
Scooter
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 17 tháng 2, 2006
Scooter was DC's attempt to cash in on the teen humor success of Archie, and Beatlemania. He was a British lad with a Vespa (hence Scooter), imported to America. Like Archie he had two gorgeous girlfriends fighting over [...]
Those Brilliant Kryptonians
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 2, 2006
Here's a hilarious bit from Superman #170:Um, that's quite a clock; each hour represents a billion years? And there are no smaller hands? If we accept that the clock is broken down into tenths or so, that still means 100 [...]
Love Is In the Air
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 2, 2006
Today, for obvious reasons, I thought I'd talk a little bit about romance comics of the Silver Age. Now romance comics don't get a lot of respect among comic collectors, but they represented a significant amount of comics [...]
Maybe It Was the 30th Century "Special" Science Fair?
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 2, 2006
Check out that ultra modern digital comput [...]
Horrorscope
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 12 tháng 2, 2006
This advice gem comes from Debbi's Dates #9 (197 [...]
Early Backlash Against Feminism
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Bảy, 11 tháng 2, 2006
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Worst. Swipe. Ever.
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 10 tháng 2, 2006
Adventure #244 (Jan 1958) is not a famous issue, but it does have some historical significance. One of the backup features in Adventure at the time was Green Arrow, and the story in that issue was “A Medal for Roy”. It’s [...]
Herbie
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 2, 2006
Of all the Silver Age characters, Herbie Popnecker is undoubtedly one of the most unusual. The 1960s, when Herbie became a surprise hit, were all about cool, with James Bond and Joe Namath setting the style. Herbie was [...]
A Salute to Batman Annual #1
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Ba, 7 tháng 2, 2006
In the summer of 1960, DC released Superman Annual #1. The significance of this issue cannot be overstated. I don't believe that DC had ever reprinted an entire story exactly as it had been previously published (with the [...]
Launch Pad
Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 5 tháng 2, 2006
Showcase was probably the most important DC magazine of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was intended to showcase new comic characters to see if teenage boys would buy them before launching a new book.The first three issues [...]
