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My Greatest Adventure
My Greatest Adventure was a DC science fiction and fantasy anthology series similar to the ones that dominated the Atlas/Marvel line in the early Sixties. Along with two other DC titles, Tales of the...
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Mark Merlin and the House of Secrets
There were several comic books in the early Sixties that included tales of both magic and science fiction, but the two genres were rarely combined into an individual story. An exception was the DC...
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The Super-Luck of Badge 77
The Superman comic strip ran in as many as 300 papers daily from 1939 to 1966. Readership at the peak of the strip’s popularity was over 20 million. In the early Sixties, storylines ran to about forty...
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What was Lois Lane Doing 50 Years Ago? (Pt. 2)
I can’t tell you how tempting it was to title this post “Who was Lois Lane Doing 50 years Ago?” This Curt Swan cover from Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #29 (Nov. 1961) depicting Lois being...
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Alter-Ego
When The Brave and the Bold #35 came out in the Spring of 1961, readers noticed something a little different about the letters page; the full address of each letter writer was printed under their name....
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The Human Light Bulb
I love superhero origin stories; even those that never went anywhere. My thanks to the posters at the DC Comics Time Capsule for this page scan from House of Mystery #117 (1961). Besides the human...
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What was Lois Lane up to 50 Years Ago? (Pt. 3)
Not that I ever need an excuse to revisit the goofy world of Lois Lane in 1961, but yesterday was Margot Kidder’s birthday and I feel kind of bad that I didn’t post this installment of “What was Lois...
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The Legion of Super-Heroes from the 21st Century
Okay, it’s probably a typo (Wikipedia assures me that DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes is from the 30th Century) but everything else about this extra from Superman Annual #4 is very informative, especially...
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So, What Was Lois Lane Up To 50 Years Ago? (#4)
From Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #30: “Lois Lane, Daily Planet reporter, has braved a thousand dangers without fear for her life! And why? Because she knows that, like a circus acrobat, she...
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The Editors at DC offer their…No, YOUR…2 Cents.
From the inside front cover of every DC comic book to hit the stands in December, 1961: Tweet
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