Odin's Ravens

In the Smallville Mailsack page of Adventure Comics 304 (Jan. 1963), reader Buddy LaVigne of Northbrook, IL, wrote, “I suggest a new cha...

You can thank — or blame — Mort Weisinger for all the giant turtle men who used to wander around tearing up highway bridges. The first...

What’s strange is that with one mirror-image antagonist Superman — Bizarro — already an established character, writer Jerry Siegel and ar...

“Weighed down by anxieties they were largely helpless to resolve, audiences in the 1950s craved simplicity and clarity,” wrote literature ...

A number of enduring concepts in the Superman mythos were introduced not in titles featuring Superman, but Superboy. And that’s kind of...

When I was 6, my favorite member of the Legion of Super Heroes was Lightning Lad, for four reasons: 1)            He was the first of t...

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Superman’s formidable powers increased steadily to some point just short of omnipotence. By 1960, Supe...

So Ghost Rider is a supernatural motorcyclist who made a deal with the devil to save his father, and got a flaming skull-head f...

Superboy would like to have a word with the Tea Baggers.