User blog comment:Raidra/Batman versus the Ugly Horde/@comment-4893169-20160913004106/@comment-4849011-20160913224727

Here's the thing. On one hand, the Golden Age had a lot of silly or bizarre content, such as funny animal comics, villains which included a super-intelligent Venusian caterpillar who could control minds and a guy who looked like a ventriloquist dummy (I'm not making that up- ), and a Captain Marvel story in which the characters and even dialogue kept getting hit with cream pies (Once again, I'm not making any of this up). On the other hand, there was some unsettling content. Someone could get fatally gassed or otherwise poisoned, be shot up or attacked with sinister rays, or be killed or disfigured in a fire. Detective Comics volume one issue 30 (My gosh, I hate having to word it that way instead of just saying "Detective Comics #30". Dang you, DC Comics!) had Batman dealing out a fatal neck injury to a henchman. The Joker had a high body count in his earliest stories, with most of them being poisoned. One issue had The Joker confronted by masked policemen who noted that his poison was useless against their protective masks; The Joker nonchalantly responded by shooting them all to death. The Silver Age had a lot of good stories, but it also had a lot more nonsense than the Golden Age.