Greetings Nerdy list aficionados and you all loved the first part of this list so much
it’s time for a part two, and I can’t say I blame you the silver age is wacky wonderful
time.
When pretty much anything went, good times.
So let’s get on to more crazy silver age DC moments.
I’m Sasha and these are the top 10 weirdest DC silver age moments part 2.
10 – Superman gets spanked, this has happened more than once in fact there’s a meme panel
with eh man of steel loudly proclaiming spank me daddy that gets circulated out of context
a lot, but this is a different spanking panel that comes to us from Superboy #75 back in
1959.
In this issue Jonathan Kent wins a father of the year award which leads Clark on a stroll
down memory lane to being a child and his father figuring out how to parent a super
human which includes a memory of his father trying to spank him cause well that’s how
mafia works.
So this punishment ensued because Clark’s father wanted him to chop a block of wood
without his powers and Clark refused so he got spanked with a hairbrush which didn’t
work, and so nothing was lost and nothing was gained.
Father of the year!
9 – The Krypton Crawl I will try my best not to make all of these about Superman but
it’ll be hard Silver Age Supes is a treat.
This comes to us from Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olson who had his own comic book alongside
Lois Lane with her Superman’s Girlfriend comic.
This dance sensation sweeping the nation came from issue 88 in 1965.
In this issue Jimmy starts a band and comes up with a new dance craze that even superman
can’t resist taking valuable time out of his day to dance on stage with Jimmy, all
of this turned out to be a communist plot undermining America it’s youth and superheroes
through rock and roll.
Very 60s.
I mean if we have the bat watusi I kinda wanna see Superman do the krypton crawl omg can
you imagine the DCEU version doing it.
I need this in my life now.
8 – Big Head Flash so why does the Flash look like Hector Hammond well the answer can
be found in the flash #177 from 1968 near the tale end of the silver age which comic
historians state goes from 1956 to 1970, when the modern or now bronze age begins.
In this issue the trickster exposes the flash to radiation which causes his head to swell
up continuously until it will burst unless he can find a cure.
Honestly for this it’s the visual that’s great.
You know he’ll be fine, I mean can you imagine if this is what took him out.
No only dramatic deaths for Barry Allen.
7 – Superman Man of Hats.
So this comes to us from action comics #275 in 1961 and involved Braniac exposes Superman
to a combination of Red and Green Kryptonite.
So Kryptonite causes him sickness and in modern version red causes him to be immoral and an
edgy bad boy or more serious if it was later.
However in the silver age this combo made him grow a third eye on the back of his head.
Which he hid by pretending the kryptonite was forcing him to wear different hats.
A kryptonite hat compulsion.
Hey we all know they’re not the best investigators at the daily planet.
I think Supes just wanted an excuse to change hats.
6 – Killer Kent – Ok I’m sorry just Superman in the silver age is doing the most.
This issue is Superman 230 in 1970 so the end of the silver age.
This story involves involves a reversed world where Lex is Superman sent from Krypton.
Lex El and Jonathan Martha Kent are criminals who have a son Clark who they set up with
a brain implant that ensures that no matter how he is raised he will grow up to be a criminal.
Father of the year!
This leads to a future where Clark is doomed to become a supervillain.
However he is adopted by the Langs and actually grows up to be best friends with Lex whom
he ultimately betrays.
It’s actually very smallvilley a reverse Smallville.
If you go through silver age comics you’ll see they’re full of little moments here
and there that have been plucked and tweaked for modern continuity.
5 – Alien Batman – Finally the Dark Knight though in the silver age he was far from dark.
This is Detective comics 251 from 1958.
It involves one of Bruce Wayne’s many plots to keep his secret identity a secret.
In order to do this he stages a scene where Vicky Vale takes a picture of an unmasked
Batman disguised as an alien taking down criminals who were also pretending to be aliens.
At least he was a solving a crime while he did it so he didn’t stop for this looking
at you Superman.
Number 4 – Green Lantern Boxer from Green Lantern #39 in 1965.
I’m not going to lie I really miss clumsy Hal Jordan the Hal Jordan who knocked himself
out with his own power ring.
Forgot that he was weak to yellow so he just stood there and got hit by things.
The hero who knocked himself out by slipping on soap.
Well the silver age has that for me in spades.
This actually the back up issue for this comic as comics used to contain more that one story
per issue.
In this story Hal takes on Brutus the Gladiator champion of the universe a criminal who was
committing crimes just so he get Hal’s attention so they could have a boxing match.
Also this just involved stealing money, it’s hilarious how much time silver age Hal spent
on Earth when he was supposed to be guarding the whole sector in fact that would become
a plot point later on.
Number 3 – Wonder Woman I married a monster.
This comes to us from Wonder Woman 155 from 1965 and features a glorious wedding scene
on the cover.
In this issue Wonder Woman is set to marry some alien prince and most of it is just Steve
Trevor freaking out.
This monster prince is only had some when he is good but a monster when he is bad.
Ultimately the monster decides he just wants to be left alone the silver age wasn’t for
him, he needs a more serious milieu and to stay out of Silver age wonder woman’s love
life.
Steve Trevor doesn’t play.
Number 2 – Jimmy Olsen’s private island.
So King Olsen appears in Superman’s pal jimmy number 85 in 1965.
So an enemy of Superman’s tricks Jimmy by giving him the deed to a private island however
once there he discovers a gold kryptonite trap gold kryptonite being the one that removes
Superman’s powers permanently.
So to keep Superman away Jimmy pretends to be a despot and says he is king of the island
and no one can come there not even his friend superman.
You know or he could just tell him but I mean their friendship is already based on lies
so what’s one more.
Number 1 – The Happening ok not really it’s the invasion of the cloud creatures in the
flash number 111 from 1960.
In this story Barry Allen goes up against a race of sentient cloud creatures created
from volcanoes.
No one believes the claims of scientists who warned them so the cloud creatures attack
so it’s up to Barry Allen to stop these clouds and wind.
Trying to create reverse tornadoes but that doesn’t work so he defeats them by skipping
clouds like skipping stones to reach their core and kill them ending their species.
Just some light genocide from the Flash then he asks out Iris to round out a nice day of
murder but she says no.
Whomp whomp!
You save the world from evil clouds and still no respect.
So those were 10 more weird moments from the silver age a great time of zaniest for DC
at least Marvel had a very different silver age because of their differing launch history
which saw them start having a serious tone much sooner than DC.
In fact some call Marvel’s silver age the comic book renaissance.
Anyways that’s enough of that tell me your fave silver age moment down below.
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I’m Sasha and we’ll see you again soon ehre on top 10 nerd.