I heard that some Silver Age Comic Books had racist covers. Is this true?

Actually, the Silver Age was pretty tame in terms of racism.  Since the Silver Age started in 1955 and ended in 1970, it encompassed the civil rights movement.  And so, comic books, started slowly reflecting social equality for all races.  Although most of the superheroes were still white, there was very little ethnic stereotyping or making fun of racial characteristics.  It wouldn’t be until the bronze age – the 1970s – when comic books started featuring non-white superheroes on a regular basis.

The most racist period of time for comic books was the Golden Age.  There are plenty of comic book covers that had racist overtones.  This Captain Marvel comic is a perfect example.  I have chosen to show this comic not because I think it is funny, but because I want to educate people on just how bad racism was in the 1930s and 1940s in comics.  We’ve come a long way since that time period.

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Silver Age Comic Book Trivia Contest. (6 of 6)

Part 6 of the 2006 Chicago Wizard World Silver Age Trivia Contest.

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What is the funniest Batman comic cover that you’ve ever seen?

Well …  It depends on what you define as funny, I guess.  My favorite comic cover featuring Batman is one which features Robin and Superman as well.  I know it’s not a silver age comic.  It’s in fact from the Golden Age.  However, the first time that I saw it, I was drinking a coke and I started laughing and snorting the coke through my nose.  So I am going to pick the infamous “Three men, three cannons, and three goofy smiles” cover.

I wonder which D.C. character is sitting on the biggest cannon?

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Silver Age Comic Book Trivia Contest. (1 of 6)

This is part one of six videos filmed in Chicago at Wizard World 2006.   It is a trivia contest run by Craig Shutt focusing on the Silver Age of Comic Books.  Mr. Shutt knows more about Silver Age Comic Books than probably anybody else alive … except for Mark Waid – the eventual winner of the contest.  Craig Schutt is a respected columnist with Comic Buyer’s Guide.   He is the author of Baby Boomer Comics.   Mark Waid is a fan-favorite comic book author.

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Who the heck is the character on the left of Wolverine in “Character Faces” T-shirt?

A reader of the blog asked us to figure out which character is on the “Marvel Comics Character T-shirt”.  Basically, he was trying to figure out who was to the left of Wolverine.  His friends have been looking at their old comics.  He had done an internet search.  But they couldn’t identify which marvel character was on the T-shirt.

Drum Roll Please …..  The Answer is …… Namor – The Submariner.

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A fan receives Silver Age Comic Books in the mail part 2

A fan filmed a video of himself opening the mail and receiving some Silver Age Comics.   It includes some key Marvel Books including Strange Tales #169 – Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense – Iron-Man, and his third copy of X-Men #1.

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My favorite time period of comics is Silver

Steve Keeter, a fan, discusses some of the comics he loved when he was young, and how great he feels comics are today.

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Will my Bronze age comic books fit in Silver age bags/boards?

You can use them if you’d like. They will be a little bit big for your comics. Basically, comic books have shrunk in size through the years. (Mostly because the publishers wanted to save money by using less paper, ink, transportation costs, etc). So the biggest bags and boards are golden, then silver, and finally bronze.

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What did the mailman bring?  Comic Books.  More specifically, Silver Age Comics.  Let’s take a look what he brought.

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What’s the difference between the Golden Age of Comic Books and the Silver Age? What are the time periods?

The Golden Age of Comic Books starts from the 1930s when the first Superhero comic books were published (Action Comic spawned Superman;  Detective comics birthed Batman, etc.) until after World War 2 when  Superhero comic books slowly dwindled in sales.  (The public was more interested in crime, romance, and other types of comics).  The Silver Age of Comic Books started in the late 1950s when there was a renaissance in superhero comic books.  This period lasted until around 1970 when it morphed into what we call the Bronze Age of Comics.

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