>>82340215The problem with a lot of the Silver Age was that it was hobbled by the Comics Code Authority, thanks to Seduction of the Innocent.
Really, it's honestly quite amazing that DC kept pumping out stories the way they did. Sure, a lot of them were inane and stupid, but there was very rarely a plot that was basically a lift from an earlier comic. You got some things here and there (Superman, Superboy, or Supergirl turns into a weird thing because of Red Kryptonite, Part Umpteen), but they actually kept a sense of continuity and usually referenced the earlier stories when that happened.
I think a lot of people have this image of the Silver Age as a 80s-90s cartoon where what happened in one episode was never referenced again. By and large, this isn't the case. Yes, it was weird, but it was usually weird in new and different ways, and they managed to keep it that way from the 1930s on to the 1970s.
Marvel's Silver Age was much shorter, they didn't have much of a Golden Age to factor into things at all. Because their stories weren't built off of the tame, weird fiction of the 50s, Marvel could focus more on character drama. They had their moments (boy, did they!), but most of Marvel's Silver Age only shows through in the dialogue, the power levels (Thor swinging a hammer at twice the speed of light, while possessing only half of his strength, anyone?), the bombastic narration, and some of the questionable science.
Keep in mind that DC also had a different audience back then. In the Gold/Silver Age, their audience was usually 7-14 years old. Marvel's was 10-16 or so. This has changed over time.
>>82341334Because of he did that, he never would have turned evil. Remember, Luthor is evil because Superboy made all of his hair fall out. Luthor loves evil. He worships evil. The risk of being a goody-two shoes is anathema to him.
