For yours truly, these are the best years( & yeah- I grew up picking the comics off the spinner racks beginning in 7/1960, so I do have bias towards that time.

4) Silver Age - 1958-1970 The Weisinger years. Well, technically the decade prior also saw Weisinger at the helm, but this was his decade + of innovations. We got Kandor, Braniac, Bizarro, a rainbow of Kryptonite, Supergirl, and a legion of other super-characters, both human and animal.