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Q&A: Chris Burnham, Batman Incorporated Artist Extraordinaire

Burnham's style is not only reminiscent of Frank Quitely's, it's reminiscent, in its own way, of the Silver Age. It's cartoony without being cartoonish and stays away from the mundane, shadowy world of modern Gotham Between my junior and senior...Read more

Superman III celebrates 30th anniversary

movie than a Superman one. But it certainly is more enjoyable to watch than “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace,” and it does give us the Evil Superman vs. Good Clark Kent fight that could have been pulled right from the pages of a Silver Age comic book...Read more

Cover of the Week: June 12

I don't have an affinity for the talking gorillas of DC's Silver Age, or those who have donned jetpacks or ridden dinosaurs in far more recent indie comics; the concepts too often come across as "Mad Libs" gone astray for my tastes. But the BOOM...Read more

Man of Steel's Popularity: Is It Really a Surprise?

If you believe the comics press (and we've been guilty of this ourselves from time to time), nobody has done right by Big Blue in years, and the Silver Age Superman remains the unchallenged beacon of light from which everything shines. Mark Waid, who ...Read more

Can't get enough of Superman? Try these stand-out graphic novels

First, some background: What pops into most people's heads when they think of Superman comic books are the stories and concepts that were developed in what is called the “Silver Age” of comics, which coincided with editor Mort Weisinger's time on the ...Read more

Satisfy your inner geek at Philly Comic-Con

The show will host dealers from all over the Northeast who will have sales booths featuring Gold & Silver Age comics, Japanese Manga, gaming cards such as Yuh-Gi-Oh and Magic the Gathering, action figures, non-sport cards (including the new Angry Birds ...Read more

Ask the Retailer: Comics from the front lines

4: The first appearance of Barry (Flash) Allen, officially ushering in the Silver Age. DC Comics. Gerry Gladston, co-owner of Midtown Comics, locations all over Manhattan. Hot Stuff: The Little Devil No. 1 from Harvey Comics, 1957. I believe this comic...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: JMS Explores Dark Side of Teenage Superheroing in "Sidekick"

The more this looks like a classic Silver Age comic, the more subversive the story becomes. You've talked about taking a kind of "BBC approach" to the current batch of Joe's Comics books, getting in, telling your story and getting out. What's the plan...Read more