This channel is all about DC Comics Silver Age, my favorite age in comics. It's silly, it's wacky but it's also extremely creative. I hope people can enjoy my love of the Silver Age.
Thank you. I like making these kinds of videos. They don't get nearly as many views but they can be fun. One I want to do is about how the rules of the Legion in how they accept new members couldn't possibly work.
I'd love to hear your best try. I think it would be really hard to argue against Mon-El being number one at this point in Legion history and I'm not sure any future member would ever pull him from the spot. Ultra Boy is tough because of the weirdness of him switching powers. From there on out you have a few glass cannons who can deliver lethal or incapacitating damage but have regular human level defense and then it's just who can deliver the finishing blow first.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I assume we're not counting superboy or supergirl at this point. In that case, yes, Mon-El is probably #1. #2 is where I have some problems choosing. It really depends on what we mean by "strongest" but I would say Cosmic Boy might be up there with Ultra Boy. Is Lightning Lad dead at this point still? See this is the problem, each time I go to put someone on the list, I think of another member who could be stronger under certain situations. And then considering weaknesses. Element Lad under certain conditions. I really don't know.
I define strongest as delivering deadly or incapacitating damage to a single opponent. Element Lad is crazy powerful but his power would just be too slow against someone like Lightning Lad or Ultra Boy. Technically, we could imagine Cosmic Boy as a Magneto level being but by the time he starts wielding metal as a weapon Lightning Lad, Ultra Boy or Star Boy would already have him down for the count. That's just my speculation.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime you have a point. Personally I really think it comes down to situation and environment. But I think your 3 are good picks. I won't argue too much with them.
There is a RU-vid channel called Danco that does fights between comic characters and although I think his methodology has definite flaws it's a lot of fun. However, ultimately the winner of every fight will be whomever the writer wants to win. If the writer wants Triplicate Girl to beat Mon-El than win she shall.
Thank you so much. It's getting harder and harder to resist just making this the Legion channel because the Legion is definitely my most popular videos but there are so many other stories I also want to show.
The fun is I read Tommy Tomorrow story in Real Facts Comic that.he was an.Astronaut . Also fun fact he was only one of Three DC characters to have a 3D story in Superman 3D comic.Lucky to have both
Alan Moore is easily my all-time favorite comic writer but he was a prickly fellow and fell out with both DC and Marvel so he turned to independent companies and eventually self-publishing but unlike Steve Ditko his quality made it worth readers time to seek him out.
That's actually a really good question. They seem to be perpetually accepting applications but the only one they've admitted into the Legion in quite some time is Element Lad and I guess Lightning Lass although she was a bit of a ringer.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime yeah when I think back it seems like they ended up fighting more than they inducted but I haven't actually checked or anything lol
Thank you so much and it isn't really speculation on my part. The introduction mentions that Gardner Fox was heavily influenced by Lovecraft. Unfortunately, less than halfway through the series it radically changes into something that seems more influenced by Dick Tracy.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime yeah I haven't learned much about the behind the scenes with Mr Fox and Dr fate before I knew he was a fan of pulp magazine. I actually discovered Kent Nelson story through Roy Thomas all star squadron and later still found Lovecraft I immediately thought of Dr fate and marvels cthon
I mostly discovered the JSA through the ASS (whoops). I adored that series but it's never been reprinted outside of the black and white Showcase line. That would be a great one for an omnibus. I'd say that most of the Golden Age archive books I collected were because of the All-Star Squadron.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime They really should reprint ASS(lol) I'm sure we aren't the only fans who discovered the giants whose shoulders the creators were standing on through Mr Thomas labor of love
What's really bad is the Indian hooked (or bent) cross is actually from Indian culture, as in India. It's a Hindu symbol, not Native American. So it's problematic in multiple ways.
Never.liked or sold any copies when I was a dealer. It was so anti Native American. But there was a spoff on hero's with Dumb Bunny forgot the name.A the fun was Angel. and the Ape. Yep Apes and DC.
I loved this story as well when I bought the comic two life times ago and your right,had Luthor used his genius for cash he would have been a multi Trillionaire.
I also love that Luthor created a device that could broadcast his voice across time and simply called for some Legion of Super-Villains and instantly found them.
Krypto is well known; Beppo the Super Monkey was a test subject of Jor-El who got into Kal-El's ship at the last minute and traveled to Earth with him and escaped upon landing; Streaky was a pet belonging to Supergirl that she experimented on, trying to find a way to neutralize kryptonite. She synthesized X-Kryptonite, which had the property of permanently bestowing super powers on the cat; As for Comet, he is a centaur from ancient Greece, cursed by Circe to be a horse, albeit a horse with super powers. When a comet passes above the earth, the spell is temporarily broken and he becomes a human being, sans super powers. He is in love with Supergirl (that is a bit awkward and distasteful). Out of all the super pets, only Krypto and Beppo are affected by kryptonite, as they are the only Kryptonians. The other two are immune, despite having the same powers. Later on, Proty II, a shapeshifting lump of telepathic protoplasm, the pet of Chameleon Boy, would join their ranks. The original Proty gave his (its) life to restore Lightning Lad to life (saving Saturn Girl, who it was in love with, seemingly a reoccurring theme), though it was later revealed that it had not actually returned him to life so much as transferred it's essence into Lightning Lad's dead body and taken his place, using its telepathic powers to compensate for any memory loss. The new Proty/Lad would go on to marry Saturn Girl and produce children with her. And strangely, she being a telepath knew. Oy!
You really know your stuff. The only one I really don't have much knowledge of is Beppo. I've already recorded but not yet published the origin of Streaky. I agree that Comet is a bit disturbing once you get into his backstory and I will get to him eventually. I'm up to Proty II although I'm not sure if I published it yet. DC recently released a single issue comic of the Legion of Super-Pets. Maybe I'll show it on here eventually.
I didn't love the fact that immediately after Lightning Lad died the Legion was looking for a way to resurrect him. I would have preferred if he'd stayed dead and his sister simply took his place. I'm sure most Legion fans know that she'll soon become Light Lass.
Wow You pulled out I hated even under Joe Simon.This was run by. Nixon era of don't trust the government. It was the Indian character so badly handling. Around this time Joe Simon did Cracked Magazine.
This was well into Supergirl's career. The stories I'm currently working on for Supergirl are from '59 and '60. It will take awhile for me to reach 1963.
The reason artwork might be fuzzy it was put on micro film which DC sometimes.I know they had hard bound books with comics. I saw some at 575 Lexington Ave in New York office.
I was eight years old when I started buying DC comics. I had this Superboy comic. What was special to me is their innocent charm. Yes they did not make sense sometimes but who cares. I learned a little history from reading Jimmy Olsen comics or any time someone went back in time. That is where I got my love of history. Love seeing this. Thanks.
Yes Silver Age had Sea Devil, Rip Hunter time master, Challenge of the Unknown, to to name a few. Best example is Showcase.My favorite was Viking Prince I watch Mr.Kubert work on the pages.Those Were the fun days.
@@arthurtripp6922 Challengers of the Unknown is one I wish I had. They have been reprinted but I don't have them. Rip Hunter continued to get used from time to time (no pun intended)
Thank You show the Newspaper strips of Superman the Artist sometimes did story plots. The Artist in the papers were paid at a higher rate. Mr.Swan put these stories into comicbooks when he was editor.
I think IDW did a great job with these volumes. I do recommend them for Superman fans. My all-time favorite comic strip remains Popeye from the Segar days.
As a kid in the late 50s through the early 60s I would read the Superman dailies in the local Newspaper comic page section. Those and other characters like Alley Oop and Beetle Bailey and of course Peanuts.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime No I didn't. The papers were thrown in the trash the next day. Also, remember that we kids at the time could buy the 10 ct, later 15 ct, and then 20 ct, mags at our local drug stores, so that saving the dailies was not really done buy most of us.
I think they're very different. I loved the barrel chested Superman but Curt Swan had such a clean, elegant style that was able to work in the Silver, Bronze and up into the early Modern era. I'm not sure I have a favorite between the two because Boring's style had such a wonderful charm to it. When I try and emulate an artists drawing of Superman it's either Boring or Plastino.
Early ACTION, ADVENTURE, DETECTIVE, WORLDS FINEST had.multi stories backup Tommy Tomorrow, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Pow Wow Smith, Roy.Ramand,John Jones Martian Manhunter to name a few. It kept us kids reading different types.of story's..
I did really enjoy this diverse world of the Silver Age. I wonder if a lot of people realize that DC almost abandoned superheroes in the late 40s and early 50s to focus mostly on western and war comics. All-Star Comics became All-Star Western and All-American Comics became All-American Western. Later, All-American Western became All-American Men of War. Most of these stories have never been reprinted.
There really wasn't a DCU back in the Silver Age. I read a Silver Age story just recently where someone mentioned that Superman was the only super-powered being on Earth. It was like Superman and his supporting characters were in a separate universe. The only other superhero I recall being mentioned in these Superman stories is Batman (Bruce Wayne).
