Batman: The Silver Age Omnibus 1

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Only moans would be, I wish they would give details about the restoration, details about the source material used, as well as I would love to see an essay or two and perhaps some bonus pages of original art pages and perhaps the adverts that were originally included or used to advertise the Batman / detective comics. Unfortunately the dictat came down from higher levels of DC that editor Jack Schiff should put more science fiction and more monsters into the Bat-stories. Action Comics, All-Star Western, Animal Man, Aquaman, Batgirl, Batman, Batman and Robin, Batman Incorporated, Batman: The Dark Knight, Batwing, Batwoman, Birds of Prey, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, DC Universe Presents, Deathstroke, Demon Knights, Detective Comics, Dial H, Earth 2, The Flash, Frankenstein Agent of S. As Batman s popularity demanded additional output, Kane kept up the pace by adding assistants and dropping non-Batman assignments.

DC's 1950s period is not very available, well, here you have some of the best comics of the decade from 1954-58. On Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster and Jack Kirby as science-fiction fans, see Benton, Mike, Masters of Imagination, Taylor Publishing, 1994, pp. Batman got the 'New Look', as did the world depicted in his comics, and the stories got a bit more serious without the sci-fi excesses of the 50's. Silver Age: Very silly, lighthearted, childish and fun stories, colorful and often with a sci-fiction theme. With Christian Bale in the lead role and drawing on Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One (1987), Batman Begins retold the saga of Batman’s origin, showing his training and his early days as a costumed crime fighter.In other Batman, Superman, and Legion of Super-Heroes stories, Hamilton introduced such memorable characters as Batwoman, the Composite Superman, Element Lad, and Dream Girl. Among straightforward Silver Age superheroes from publishers other than Marvel or DC, Charlton Comics offered a short-lived superhero line with characters that included Captain Atom, Judomaster, the Question, and Thunderbolt; Tower Comics had Dynamo, Mercury Man, NoMan and other members of the superhero espionage group T.

Most of the old super-villains were ignored for a few years and the stories were even more grounded and detective-oriented.The Code plays a heavy role in this, as maybe some of the old villains were too violent and monstrous (or too sexual in the case of Catwoman), family is a safe subject as long as it doesn't go against some of the Code rules. Blumberg places the end of the Silver Age in June 1973, when Gwen Stacy, girlfriend of Peter Parker (Spider-Man), was killed in a story arc later dubbed " The Night Gwen Stacy Died", saying the era of "innocence" was ended by "the 'snap' heard round the comic book world—the startling, sickening snap of bone that heralded the death of Gwen Stacy. citation needed] When juvenile offenders admitted to reading comics, it was seized on as a common denominator; [5] one notable critic was Fredric Wertham, author of the book Seduction of the Innocent (1954), [5] who attempted to shift the blame for juvenile delinquency from the parents of the children to the comic books they read. Film and television credits include scripting The Green Slime (1969), Track of the Moon Beast (1976), and three episodes of 77 Sunset Strip.

An exhibition of comic strip art was held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of the Palais de Louvre in 1967, and books were soon published that contained serious discussions of the art of comics and the nature of the medium. That's a very narrow view of "Golden Age" Batman that really only resembled maybe his first year of comic book stories in Detective Comics, and even then he didn't normally use a gun to kill living, normal human beings. The spoiled but gifted Damian assumed the mantle of Robin and acted as an antiheroic foil to both Batman and the previous Robins.In addition, he wrote Tommy Tomorrow features for ACTION COMICS and classic stories for DC editor Julius Schwartz's science fiction comics. The entire collection contains work by Bill Finger, Edmond Hamilton, Dave Wood, and Jack Schiff, Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Kaye, Charles Paris, Dick Sprang, Win Mortimer, and Bob Oksner.

While Batman can work with SF, overall these weren't a good fit and the last three stories (two on an alien planet, one with Batman battling a time travel) show why.Of course in the late 50s and early 60s they had more of these "outlandish" stories, but unlike with the other eras you can really pin down a definitive point where it started.