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Sunday, Nov 22
Showcase Presents Reprint List
Atom V1: Showcase 34-36, and Atom 1-17. Green Lantern V1: Showcase 22-24 and Green Lantern 1-17. Green Lantern V2: Green Lantern 18-37. Green Lantern V3: Green Lantern 39-59. (Note missing Green Lantern 38?) Green Lantern V4: Green Lantern 60-75. Justice League of America V2: JLA 17-36.
Tuesday, Nov 17
Justice League of America #16
Meanwhile, Green Lantern, Batman and the Martian Manhunter have similarly met up along the way to their meeting, and stop to break up a payroll robbery. Once again the weird music compels them to dance, and once again the group teams up to defeat the crooks. Batman frees some silver iodide cr...
Wednesday, Sep 30
Cover Appearances of the JLA Members
In JLA #21-40 we see Superman and Batman becoming more regular features on the cover. Wonder Woman's consecutive string of covers ends with #25, while Green Lantern is first missing from #32. The Flash makes it to #33, but just barely, as his run of appearances includes this one from JLA #21:
Thursday, Sep 24
Guest Post: "Super-Exiles of Earth" (May 1963; Justice League of America #19), or, Life in the Pre-"Crisis" World
Early on when the JLA was arrested, one panel portrayed the 3 members who travelled by plane (Wonder Woman, Green Arrow and Batman). Another panel featured the 3 who could fly on their own (Green Lantern, Superman, and Martian Manhunter) and another panel portrayed the remaining earthbo...
Saturday, Sep 12
Single Issue Review: Justice League of America #15
The final JLA team consists of Green Lantern, Flash and Batman, and they head to Central City, where they find a pair of stone idols trying to destroy the local skyscrapers with an earthquake machine. Green Lantern holds up the building with hands projected from his power ring, while Batma...
Sunday, Aug 30
Trivia Quiz #31: Answers
1. True or False: All major comic publishers submitted their comics to the CCA for its approval and seal during most of the Silver Age. 2. Name three DC features of the Silver Age (aside from annuals) to debut in their own books with a #1 issue instead of having a tryout.
Thursday, Jun 25
The Skeptic
DC published any number of backup features during the Silver Age. One of my favorites was Roy Raymond, TV Detective. Raymond was the host of a TV show called Impossible But True, and the focus of the stories was how he managed to keep from being hoaxed by people wanting to get on the show for one r...
Monday, Jun 8
The Great Editors of the Silver Age: Julius Schwartz
Schwartz also worked on the Adam Strange launch (and picked up the character for his Mystery in Space title). With Showcase #22, Schwartz brought back his second Golden Age hero for DC in the form of the Hal Jordan Green Lantern. In Brave & Bold #28, Schwartz combined the new Flash and Gre...
Saturday, May 16
Single Issue Review: Showcase #41
DC had good success relaunching some of their Golden Age superhero characters in the early 1960s, so it was only natural that they'd try the same treatment with some of their sci-fi heroes as well. And Lon survived the collapse of the lighthouse, so it's a happy ending all around.
Wednesday, May 13
Single Issue Review: Adventure #227
It's easy to forget about Superboy from the Silver Age; the current Superman apparently never was Superboy, having only gained his powers in manhood. How much of this is due to the longstanding suits over the rights to Superboy can only be guessed, but certainly Superboy was a major DC char...
Friday, Mar 27
DC Annuals in the Silver Age
Superman Annual #3 came out next and a week later Batman Annual #1, which I reviewed here. In the fall of 1961 DC released Superman Annual #4 and Batman Annual #2. The Winter Annuals were again Superman and Batman (#8 and #6 respectively). The next year DC led with Superboy Annual #1, then Batma...
Friday, Mar 13
Single Issue Review: World's Finest #135
The Future Man escapes and when Superman, Batman and Robin chase him to the cave, they discover the time machine vanishing. Has he gone into the future, or into the past? Superman will cover the former, while Batman and Robin go back to Norseland.
Tuesday, Aug 12
The Olympics
Adventure #277 (October 1960) featured The Underwater Olympics. Aquaman and Aqualad get the idea after seeing two whales racing, and decide to assemble competing teams of fish from the Atlantic and Pacific, respectively. They do not have a torch-lighting ceremony, but they do have the e...
Sunday, Jul 27
Trivia Quiz #2 Answers
1. By what term did Marvel refer to DC Comics in the Silver Age? 2. In retaliation, by what term did a DC comics reader suggest that Marvel Comics be referred to as? The only other (comic book) superhero to survive all the way from the 1940s to the dawn of the Silver Age was this guy:
Friday, Jul 25
Friday Trivia Quiz #2: Comic Wars
3. It is well-known that five DC superheroes survived intact from the early 1940s continuously into the Silver Age without a reboot: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow and Aquaman. What other non-DC superhero made it through continuous publication from the early 1940s into the...
Monday, Jul 21
Trivia Quiz #1 Answers
3. Who was the first new member inducted into the Justice League? 4. Among the five original members of the JLA (not counting Batman and Superman), who was the first to not appear on a cover? 5. Who was the first superhero to decline admission to the JLA?
