Looking a bit like the Phantom and with his roots in radio’s Green Hornet, the Golden Age Blue Beetle was hardly a font of originality and certainly not a character one would have suspected would end up being revived endlessly.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/12/number-863-blue-beetle-blue-beetle-is.html

Here’s some very early Wally Wood from a 1950 issue of Frank Buck-amateurish and innocent and yet obviously well on the road to the genius work he’d produce at EC just a very few years later.

http://wallywoodart.blogspot.com/2010/12/early-wood-frank-buck-1950.html

There’s just something special about Silver Age DC heroes before all the continuity got tied up with all the other continuity. Take the Atom, for example, as seen here by his classic team of Gardner Fox and Gil Kane.

http://www.kingdomkane.com/2010/12/oddest-man-on-earth.html

Finally today, here’s some of Charlton’s Hercules, a series that’s been getting more and more respect over the years, largely because of the art of Sam Glanzman, seen to good effect here.

http://www.thecharltonstory.com/2010/12/hercules-no-2-december-1967.html