Superb record of the superheroes' silver age -.

(From Canberra Times)

C OMIC-BOOK figures abound in popular culture today and their stories reflect many societal issues beneath the often simplistic comic exteriors. In the 1950s, science-fiction movies reflected concerns ranging from the threat of nuclear war to McCarthyism. The silver-age comic books covered in Arlen Schumer's sumptuous small- folio volume reflect the social and political changes of the 1960s and 1970s. To begin at the beginning, it was really in 1938 with the appearance of SuperMan in Action Comics that the modern comic-book era began. The decade after is considered by many to be the golden age with superheroes such as Batman, Captain America and Captain Marvel …