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The spoiled but gifted Damian assumed the mantle of Robin and acted as an antiheroic foil to both Batman and the previous Robins. The Silver Age marked a decline in horror, crime, romance, talking animal humor, and Westerns as American-comics genres. Like I said they had time Travel since the mid 40s, and Brane Taylor (the Batman from the year 3051) also appeared the frist time in 1951. When you go back and look at the old dot matrix original issues and compare them to the re-printings contained within this omnibus…well…there simply is no comparison. Both artists expressed a cinematic approach at times that occasionally altered the more conventional panel-based format that had been commonplace for decades.

There is in general no real clear beginning of the silver age, that was more gradual shift and I think even back in the 40s they allready had some silverage type stories.

EuroComics addresses the “where” by introducing North American readers to English language translations of the best in European and other comics. It was more a kind of facelift more than anything else - a cosmetic overhaul and a 'reset' to the 1940's kind of stories. That's a very narrow view of "Golden Age" Batman that really only resembled maybe his first year of comic book stories in Detective Comics, and even then he didn't normally use a gun to kill living, normal human beings.These Batman stories reflect an important period in history, following two world wars, the realization of nuclear power (good and bad) and the beginning steps towards Space travel. Silver Age: The campy, silly, fun and colorful sci-fi adventures are there, but by the second half of the 60s there has been a sharp turn into darker, more mature stories and art, more like what I would associate with the Bronze Age. Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Aquaman, Azrael, Batman, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Booster Gold, Catwoman, Chase, Chronos, Creeper, Detective Comics, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hitman, Impulse, JLA, Legion of Super-Heroes, Legionnaires, Lobo, Martian Manhunter, Nightwing, The Power of Shazam! By the 50's, the stories had become weird and ventured into sci-fi, fantasy and the paranormal a lot more - but it was still more or less the same version of the character who was thrust into, shall we say, more Superman-inspired stories.