The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and widespread commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those featuring the superhero archetype. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Silver Age is considered to cover the period from 1956 to 1970, and was succeeded by the Bronze Age.
Julius Schwartz, an instrumental figure at DC during the Silver Age
The Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961), the cornerstone of Marvel Comics Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciler)
Artist Neal Adams, whose work with writer Denny O'Neil on Green Lantern/Green Arrow marks one possibility for the end of the Silver Age
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937.
Action Comics No. 1, the iconic issue that introduced Superman and helped birth the superhero genre
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Image: Jerry Siegel in Uniform ca 1943 cropped