Superman Silver Age Bonanza!

We recently picked up an amazing Superman collection that includes a large Silver Age run as well as a few Golden Age issues. While the collection is primarily comprised of Superman and Action Comics, there are some Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Superboy, Adventure (including a complete run of Legion issues), World’s Finest, and other books of interest to any Silver Age DC fan. The collector was an avid Superman fan, so the bulk of the collection consists of books that feature Superman, including miniseries like Crisis on Infinite Earths. If you’d like to see what’s in the collection, click on this link, or you can paste in the URL

http://www.drnos.com/supermancollection.htm

Sad but True…

It’s no secret that I’m a big DC fan–the first comics I read were DC’s, because at that time Marvel was only doing monster and sf books. Don’t get me wrong–I was one of the original Marvel Maniacs, I was a founding member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society, and I overcame enormous financial and logistical hurdles to assemble a complete collection of Silver Age Marvel books in the late 1960s. Still, I’ve always been more of a DC guy…

Nevertheless, I have to admit that Marvel has found amazing success in theatres, while DC has for the most part struggled to overcome bad scripts, needless reinvention, and dreary filmmaking. So when I found this short on Youtube (it’s one of four, actually), I found myself laughing and nodding…