You certainly don't have to get the Absolute Edition but I loved this series. This is Grant Morrison at his creative best.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I'll check it out. I don't really keep up with newer stuff unless I hear something good about it. The last thing I bought was the Moon Knight omnibus from, probably 10 years ago now and I don't make what I used to so I can't just go out buying stuff like I used to.

I always wanna find that next legendary story but I swear they just don't make them anymore. As much as I love stories like Mister Miracle and Rorschach they just don't compare to Watchmen, The Dark Knight and Kingdom Come. A few like Multiversity and Infinite Crisis bring me back but even Infinite Crisis is nearly two decades old. I barely buy anything new nowadays.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime yeah I know what you mean. And it has nothing to do with being "woke" or anything. For me at least, the stories just aren't as good. I'm all for diversity and stuff and I think it's lazy to say that comic book sales have dropped the way they have because they've gone woke. They just need to find good writers who have interesting stories to tell, that's it.

I'd say the unfortunate problem is that comics are seen as archaic and people might be right. It's really hard to compete with other forms of entertainment like video games where you get a massive bang for you buck. And I have to confess that reading the same characters for 40+ years gets very repetitive yet I also tend to only buy comics with characters I recognize so I can't fault the companies. I think that DC should just stop making comics, reduce the volume of material they put out and focus on book length stories. There is so much trash to sift through to get to the good stuff that new fans probably get turned off immediately.

Ultra Boy is one of my favorites also

I'm pretty sure that Superman and Wonder Woman dated for awhile. It also felt like at the time, DC was kind of separating Superman from other heroes except for a few like Batman and the Legion of Super-Heroes. It was as if the other heroes didn't exist.

I think Tom King is a mixed bag. I really didn't enjoy his run on Supergirl and I thought his time writing Batman was mediocre and obviously I despised Heroes in Crisis but when he's on as he was with Mister Miracle, Rorschach, Strange Adventures and Human Target, he's one of the best writers ever employed by DC.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I agree but I also think that applies to every writer. I love Alan Moore as well but he's had some bad runs as well. I haven't read Heroes in Crisis because I have heard that it's really bad but I think when he hits, it's usually great.

If I were to rank my top 10 favorite comic stories of all time, Alan Moore would probably have 7 or 8 of them. I'd say that I never read anything by Alan Moore less than good. The man could do superheroes, horror, humor, pretty much everything. I remember not getting into Promethea and I felt that the quality of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was very uneven but overall he is easily my favorite comic book writer bar none. The one I really think about is Grant Morrison who could create some of the best stories in the history of comics and some of the absolute worst. I'd say his hits far outweighed his misses but sometimes his stories were painful to read. Mark Waid is another writer who had a few legendary stories but overall I think his writing is average. It does seem like Tom King may be expanding away from DC currently.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I use Alan Moore because he's my favorite writer but I didn't really like The Killing Joke or Voodoo along with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but that's my personal preference. I wouldn't say the writing was necessarily bad, I just personally didn't like it. But overall, yeah, we seem to have pretty similar tastes so I think I can trust your judgment on this stuff. Which is why I thought you should talk more about what you think about certain stories. Although maybe that should be on another channel if you were to do it. I agree with pretty much everything you have said and would be interested in a channel where you talk about comics of all eras, including today, and let us know which you think are best and worst or something like that.

I would say my top 8 Alan Moore stories/series are as follows 1. Watchmen (greatest comic story ever) 2. Swamp Thing 3. Marvelman/Miracleman 4. V for Vendetta 5. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volumes 1 and 2 6. Tom Strong 7. From Hell 8. Top 10 I do remember being very disappointed in Neonomicon. It wasn't bad but I did not like the swerve at the end.

Ok, getting a massive pile of DC silver age comics while visiting relatives actually sounds tremendously fun. I'll bet you had a blast reading through them.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I did and re-reading them for the next decade until they literally disintegrated.

I do certainly love the Silver Age

I'd say the problem with Mr A isn't so much that Ditko injects his own personal philosophy (and Ayn Rand's), it's that he does it so badly and with no subtlety. I actually find the character fascinating, which is why I have so many comics by Ditko but ultimately it fails because Ditko's storytelling by that point was so bad. I really should do some stories from those comics and I'd probably read them word for word because they are mesmerizing in how incomprehensible they are.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I actually like the Question but it's less obvious. I've not read his later stuff that you were talking about.

I uploaded several new videos last week and I plan to create another new one today. This channel is very quickly moving into position as my primary channel.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime ok. I figured it out. For some reason the notifications were turned off. I'm pretty sure I had turned them on, but that has been happening a lot lately.

I actually like the Red Kryptonite because of the unpredictable results. It was a very obvious plot device but it was used to create a lot of fun stories. I actually found Green Kryptonite to be more used in lazy writing. I'm a huge fan of Otto Binder but he really overused Green Kryptonite.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime Yes, it did reach the point where every purse snatcher had a piece of Kryptonite on him. The problem with having an invulnerable hero is figuring out how to create danger in the stories.

I'd have been fine if he were simply completely invulnerable. He'd still have to solve the problems he's presented with even if he himself cannot be harmed.

@@MrEdWeirdoShow I mentioned at the beginning that the story is by Otto Binder and art by George Rapp

I'd say that dating a cousin is debatable although they aren't just cousins, they are first cousins. But I'd say the much bigger issue is that I believe Supergirl was about 15 years old in these stories.

I always think of the Silver Age as the one most likely to be drug induced

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime yeah that's true. Both eras honestly. I keep saying it but they really are both insane in their own unique ways.

For a bit I actually dropped to 98 subs but when I woke this morning it was up to 100. I did mess up one thing. When Dr Fate got blasted he actually simply allowed the energy to pass through his body and went invisible giving the impression that he was obliterated but he generally even brags about being entirely invincible. After his change in issue 72, Dr Fate became incredibly vulnerable. I didn't follow what you said. Are you giving the victory to The Spectre?

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime well without the ring of life, I'm not so sure. I think it would be a fairly equal fight but if I had to choose I would probably still take the Spectre but I could definitely see Dr. Fate winning as well. They are both ridiculously OP so it's kind of a toss up in my opinion.

I just found that The Spectre struggled quite a bit against just about any non-normal opponent and was constantly getting assistance. He was shown to be straight up weaker than Zor. Of course Jerry Siegel and Gardner Fox are simply different writers and Fox may not have had an issue with his character beating down every opponent in sight and he did have only 6 pages to work with rather than the 10 that Siegel had so maybe he didn't feel there was enough time to have Fate struggle. There are lots of channels doing these comparisons but at the end of the day the winner will be whoever the writer wants to win. If the writer wants Wildcat to punch out Mordru than punch him out he will.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime yeah that's true.

I totally get that and I had the same issue on my other channel and figured out how I could use a fixed camera on a tripod. Unfortunately, it's not so easy going through a comic with a fixed camera. I will attempt to be more aware of keeping my hand steady and see if I can improve the situation. Thank you

@@miked5814 so close

I've completed all the 19 stories in The Spectre Archive edition but haven't yet published them all. I'll soon be creating a Spectre vs Dr Fate video and who I believe would win that battle.

Thanks for the info. I had never heard of an 'old man's home'.

I hadn't really thought of anything for my 100th sub. One thing I am planning on doing in the very near future is a battle between The Spectre and Dr Fate and who would win. The obvious answer is The Spectre in an easy victory but if we limit them to the Golden Age and take away The Spectre's Ring of Life I'm not sure he'd win. This would be prior to both of them essentially becoming joke characters. I only have one more Spectre story to finish (but a bunch left to publish) and I'm about to do the final Fate story before his helmet was truncate and he became ridiculous.

He's definitely one of my favorite members of the Legion. After rereading his origin it did occur to me that it makes no sense to continue to call him Mon-El since that clearly is not his name.

They don't get much more ancient

Action Comics 289 written by Superman creator Jerry Siegel. I don't mean to break any hearts but this is not the only incident of implied incestuous desire between Superman and his much younger cousin in her early appearances although this is probably the worst.

One more thing. This was not the end of the comic but I only had 60 seconds to speak. The next woman she sets him up with is a Supergirl lookalike who is more Superman's age so he clearly wants his cousin but can't because it's against Kryptonian law.

in bible and quran and torah none of this books forbid cousin marriage the animals do married their cousins so no incest in dc legends crisis of infinite earth puplished 1999 connected to crisis event 1985 pre-crisis superman/supergirl visit earth d in this earth showed superman kal-el and supergirl kara zor-el a husband and wife (CANON) also jor-el and lara their marriage was forbbiden love zor-el and alura also the same There's nothing constant in comics

That really means a lot to me. I've read all these stories but often times many years ago so I re-read them and sometimes read a second time. I try to do everything in one take but occasionally I don't like the result so I will do a second take. At times I do stumble over my words but it's often because I'm literally struggling to read them since I'm often reading the text through my phone. I'm really pleased with how this channel is going and I love being able to share these fun stories.

The Silver Age is my all-time favorite era in comics and that also includes Marvel.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime It was full-on kinetic creative energy..wacky concepts introduced month after month. Curt Swan on Legion...I never get tired of that run!

Curt Swan was basically a bridge artist between the Silver and Bronze Age and had a style that fit in both. The Silver Age was when writers finally got a handle on how to manage super heroes. With all due respect to the Golden Age, the stories were often very repetitive and tiresome. The Silver Age clearly didn't give a damn about continuity, logic or gaping plot holes and although I'd generally ding a story for these things the Silver Age was just so much fun that I overlook them.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime indeed!

The Silver Age was insane

One thing to note, this was not a Mad Magazine parody. This was from Superman Comics 126

Underrated

The song or the movie?

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime the meme

Was this comic produced into a meme?

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime No dude, there's a Social media meme that plays that song. In the videos a bunch of people are recording other people being heroes. The comment was sarcasm because superboy is being a c*nt here but he is a 'hero".

They were definitely geared to pre-teens and I totally recognize the absurdity of an adult analyzing these stories but it's all for fun. The writers were just having a good time and clearly didn't care about logic or continuity.

It's also against Superman's code to lie but he apparently can do anything else to give folks the wrong impression.

I'm really having fun with this channel. I had no idea if anyone would enjoy listening to me go through these old Silver and Golden age stories or if it would be boring. I was born in 1970 so the Silver Age is before my time but I learned to adore it.

@@coleparker it's funny you should say that because I have seven hardcover books of newspaper dailies featuring Superman. I'll do a quick video soon showing them and hopefully someday I can even go through some of the stories

@@miked5814 This was specifically for you. I will release 1 a day for 19 days

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I figured. I haven't been able to watch in a while.

@@miked5814 I keep my videos short so people can binge watch if they'd like. I believe I'm over halfway through the Spectre stories. I haven't published them all yet and I have a couple more videos to produce.

Thanks for the info. I had totally forgotten that it was Brainiac 5 who cured him but that it explains how Mon-El became a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Poor guy was in the Phantom Zone for 1000 years.

I appreciate the thought but don't worry about the algorithm. I'm actually kind of planning on doing a video talking about the algorithm and other things but don't worry about watching videos just to increase the view count.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I was just wondering if that's how it worked.

I'm going to talk about it in an upcoming video. I'm certainly no expert on gaming the algorithm but I have learned some things.

I've heard that argument before and it makes a lot of sense. I'm just going by what the writers consider his secret identity.

In the early days, Superman didn't necessarily kill people but he often seemed not to care if they died. What I'm amused by is the ridiculous amount of street thugs roaming the streets back in the Golden Age. You could scarcely walk two blocks in a big city without being mugged.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime maybe kill is a strong word for it. Maybe caused the death of is more accurate. And yeah you're right. Reading those comics you would think that crime was so rampant that walking to the next block was taking your life in your hands.

If I was a criminal in the DC Golden Age, the one place I wouldn't ply my trade is whatever city The Spectre operates from.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime true

@@serratededge4154 Yes, they clearly were targeted towards children and I get that. Make no mistake, if it sounds like I'm making fun it these stories it's done our of love and respect. I adore the silliness of the Silver Age.

Thank you very much. I hope these videos can start a dialogue with Golden and Silver Age fans.

It's imperative in most of these stories that Superman forget most of his powers. In particular his ability to move beyond light speed. If he remembered all his powers he'd be unstoppable. I also question whether he TRULY has a more advanced brain.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime He does, but he uses most of his brain power listening for distress calls amid the thousands of chattering voices, while not knocking over buildings by accident.

yeah, I know it's only a small amount but I'm actually happy with the growth

@@DCSilverAgeStorytimeI'm sure it'll start slow and pick up

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime pretty good though for a week or however long it's been.

It's actually growing faster than I expected. My main channel took a long time to get views. I do think if I can do some shorts it will help.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime it probably would because that's what people are into at the moment. Hopefully it keeps growing at this rate. Good luck.

I did some research and they established a backstory decades later but I prefer the mystery

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I do as well. That's what I think ruined Dr Fate as a character as well.

I have The Specter also and I can start going back and forth between the characters. The problem with Dr Fate is that after about a third of the way in Gardner Fox completely changed the character and made him awful so we have that to look forward to.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime yeah that's true.

It's fun and I plan to go through the entire Dr Fate Golden Age series

I'm shooting for one a day. I try to keep them nice and short. Thanks for the support

Good old Alfred E Newman

What a hoot 🤣 Superman & Alfred E. Newman!

@@joannewatts9892 I did think it was pretty awesome

I hadn't thought of that. He actually gave Superman his entire suitcase so I assume he had the exact same suit including cap, monocle and pipe insude. I found it amusing that Superman felt compelled to wear the entire ensemble. What I didn't mention was that Superman presented himself as a doorman despite being in his full Superman suit. Such is the insanity of the Silver Age.

​@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I love it. There's nothing else like it anywhere in entertainment.​

It's a fine idea. The only thing I'd say is that I really want to try to keep my videos at or under 10 minutes so I do limit my analysis. From my experience people's attention span is quite short these days and I have to keep things moving fast. I am considering trying to make some 30 second shorts on single crazy elements from a story. I've never done shorts but they are super popular.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime personally, I like longer videos but I know what you mean. You can't get people to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes at a time.

I have done two Golden Age Dr Fate stories but I wont publish them until I get about 10 and then I'll start doing one a day. I'd also like to do the Golden Age Specter. Those were some trippy stories. The ones that were the most boring to me are actually Superman and Batman.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime Dr. Fate and the Specter are great ones to start with. Personally I also like some of the more obscure heroes from that time period. The stories are insane but in a different way than the silver age was insane. I've been telling some of my friends about this channel but I'm not sure how many of them will watch but maybe you'll get a couple of more subs. Oh, are you going to change the name of the channel?

I will continue to focus on the Silver Age and I can only talk about stuff I actually have. I have Specter, Shazam, Justice Society etc but nothing really obscure. It's all either archive editions or omnibus. I do have Plastic Man, which is fun. Eventually I'd like to do Doom Patrol, which was a brilliant Silver Age series.

kzbin.info/door/2_4jznY-XmIqGSR7d2JG2Q This channel has a much broader range of topics but is mostly about figures.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime just subbed to it.

It could be interesting. I actually have WAY more Golden Age stuff than Silver Age although I have enough Silver Age to probably last me years. The Golden Age would be more of a challenge because it just isn't nearly as fun and silly. I have mostly Superman and Batman Omnibus but I also have other stuff like Dr Fate and Justice Society that might be more fun to look at. I might give Dr Fate a try soon as a change of pace.

@@DCSilverAgeStorytimeI watch all videos of silver and golden age stuff I can find so I would definitely watch any of that.

Out of curiousity, have you ever seen another channel doing what I do? Going through story by story?

@@DCSilverAgeStorytime not really the way you seem to be doing it. The ones I've watched skip around. There may be some but I haven't come across any yet. I guess the closest one would be a channel called comicman1938. He has many different comics from all eras though.

Hopefully I can get more dialogue going and people can tell me what works in my format and what doesn't work. The goal is to feel like I'm sitting right there with the viewer discussing the story.