The entire collection contains work by Bill Finger, Edmond Hamilton, Dave Wood, and Jack Schiff, Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Kaye, Charles Paris, Dick Sprang, Win Mortimer, and Bob Oksner. According to John Strausbaugh of The New York Times, "traditional" comic book historians feel that although the Silver Age deserves study, the only noteworthy aspect of the Silver Age was the advent of underground comics.

There were more than a few stories like “The Rainbow Batman” that had a much better setup than payoff. Individual volumes tend to focus on collecting either the works of prolific comic creators, like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko; major comic book events like " Blackest Night" and " Infinite Crisis"; complete series or runs like Gotham Central and Grayson or chronological reprints of the earliest years of stories featuring the company's most well-known series and characters like Batman and Justice League of America.The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Men, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Grifter, Hawk and Dove, I. The Silver Age coincided with the rise of pop art, an artistic movement that used popular cultural artifacts, such as advertising and packaging, as source material for fine, or gallery-exhibited, art. One commentator has suggested that, "Perhaps one of the reasons underground comics have come to be considered legitimate art is due to the fact that the work of these artists more truly embodies what much of the public believes is true of newspaper strips—that they are written and drawn (i.

The Caped Crusader is known for protecting the streets of Gotham from the villains who wish to cause harm. The success of the Batman television series brought Kane and his art back into the public eye in 1966.

The strip boasted stories by longtime editor Whitney Ellsworth and art by DC stalwarts Shelly Moldoff, Joe Giella, Carmine Infantino, and Al Plastino. Both artists expressed a cinematic approach at times that occasionally altered the more conventional panel-based format that had been commonplace for decades.

Notable trends over the 700+ pages of this volume prominently include the caped crusaders' secret identities as a constant source of anxiety. By the time Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams started working on Batman at the beginning of the Bronze Age, the comics were already very different from the campy, sci-fi Silver Age.

One of the previous reviewers is correct, though, there are some missing issues between the last golden age omnibus and this, the first silver age omnibus, that need to be put into book form at some point. Neo-silver comics creators made comics that recognized and assimilated the more sophisticated aspects of the Silver Age. Surprisingly, this volume features almost none of his classic villains besides a single appearance by The Joker in “Crime of the Month Club”. Maybe still silly according to today's standard, but not as weird (most of the time) as the Schiff comics. When he starts creating Flying Batcave, wear a rainbow color suit, fighting aliens, and time travel, that should be it.