{"id":249,"date":"2008-12-04T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2017-03-04T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T03:28:33","slug":"the-silver-age-of-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/04\/the-silver-age-of-comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Age of Comic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m a devotee of the Golden Age of Comic Books, the feelings are mutual for the Silver Age.&nbsp; I have not limited my collecting to Golden Age material, and am a big fan of the DC and Marvel Silver Age offerings.&nbsp; While I am partial to Marvel&#8217;s Silver Age heroes (and have collected them for years), I have always enjoyed the silliness of DC&#8217;s Silver Age treatment of its superheroes, particularly the Superman and Batman stories that appeared between 1950 and 1956.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While my podcast and this blog do not cover the Silver Age, I would highly recommend the <a title=\"The Silver Age of Comic Books\" href=\"http:\/\/sacomics.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Age of Comic Books blog<\/a>.&nbsp; This blog features regular summaries of Silver Age stories from a variety of sources.&nbsp; If you love the Silver Age as much as I do, you&#8217;ll really appreciate this site.&nbsp; I particularly enjoyed the post from November 25, 2008 discussing &#8220;The Second Life of Batman&#8221; from <em>Batman<\/em> #127, October 1959 (By the way, the cover of this issue features &#8220;The Hammer of Thor&#8221; long before the Marvel hero came along).&nbsp; This story was great, and featured Professor Carter Nichols, the expert on time travel, who I wrote about in <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.goldenagecomics.org\/Comics_Then_2.pdf\">&#8220;Comics Then&#8221; for Comics Now! #2<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2148\" height=\"3075\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1941\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127.jpg 2148w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127-105x150.jpg 105w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127-768x1099.jpg 768w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bat0127-715x1024.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2148px) 100vw, 2148px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, as most of you know, I am a big fan of the Golden Age and Silver Age Batman, and have maintained the Golden Age Batman site for many years.&nbsp; 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