Lee Semmens wrote:
As opposed to a lot of the drivel coming out of Marvel in the 1960s?
You say to-may-toes and I say to-mah-toes.

Bottom line is it's pretty hard to defend DC's superhero output of the late 50's early 60's, especially the Superman/Batman stuff. Seriously, everytime Supes needed a new power to defeat an enemy, it pretty much magically appeared. If he needed to produce armpit farts at a specific frequency to render the foe unconcious, no problem! Mr. Mixitplik and Batmite? Please. Granted, the first 12-18 months of the "Marvel Age" produced some forgettable stories, they continued to improve as they went along.

My biggest problem with Supes was that he was so nearly omnipotent, he should have been able to incapacitate any foe wthout breaking a sweat while simultaneously playing 50 games of chess. So they invented Kryptonite to make it even remotely possible for someone to beat him; suddenly, every two-bit hood in Metropolis had hunks of Kryptonite to torment him with. And when green K became old, up popped red, gold and even multi-colored!

The best thing that happened to DC in the 60's was the fact that Marvel finally became the dominant player; it forced DC to up their game.

On the other hand, some of the lower profile titles were actually much better reads. The Challs, Doom Patrol, JLA, Adam Strange even the Metal Men were much more entertaining.