Newspapers. These free, online and financially precarious organizations send correspondents to dangerous, war-torn hellholes so that bloggers can steal their work and slap a banner ad on it. But once upon a time, newspapers cost a nickel, and were made of “paper” that a reader could hold in his or her “hands.”

Meanwhile, in the parallel worlds which constituted comics’ Silver Age (1956 – 1971 or thereabouts), intrepid journalists such as Lois Lane and Peter Parker broke new ground. Not content with covering political scandal or third-world strife, they brought readers real news. Inventions! Gorillas! Strange people with stranger abilities! The newspapers of the Silver Age regularly featured 72-point headlines about things that would never make the front page of lesser publications.

Dateline: Silver Age is dedicated to those stories that captured the fancy of yesterday’s newspaper editors in those worlds which seem so far away, yet which coexist with ours on a different vibrational frequency.