I already answered this in another thread, but Guardians is the best superhero roleplaying game. While it is best at recreating Bronze age, it is great for Gold and Silver age as well. It uses old school DND rules reinterpreted for the superhero genre, is easy to pick up and play, and has a surprising amount of depth for the size of the book.

A great resource is also "The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes" available on Amazon and elsewhere, by Jess Nevins. Short encyclopedic entries on most of the heroes from the comics and strips of the era, along with citations for their run in whatever comics (including many references where there were guest appearance crossovers and such).

Quote from: GamerforHire on August 11, 2023, 09:35:13 AMA great resource is also "The Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes" available on Amazon and elsewhere, by Jess Nevins. Short encyclopedic entries on most of the heroes from the comics and strips of the era, along with citations for their run in whatever comics (including many references where there were guest appearance crossovers and such).

wow,that is so cool

Mayfair's DC Heroes, 2nd edition (also the Batman RPG from the same company, which uses the same rules basically)

My vote would be on Light City, which is a rules light framework/class system you use with another OSR system, it's free, so that plus something like Basic Fantasy and you got a complete rules system.

Though it's more built around War Era comics or Silver Age, so you know nothing on the scale of superman sneezing away the solar system or anything like that.

The Adventure I ran: I ran a oneshot using Light City  + Basic Fantasy, they played the "Knights in Tights"  featuring memorable characters like Lady Liberty, a woman who took a super soldier serum that made her on-par with a male athlete. Killdozer, the reincarnation of said bulldozer in human form. Nightshade, who was a batman knockoff but had two glocks and a severe case of schizophrenia. And Triton, who was basically aquaman meets Wonder woman, she had the Net of Sorrow which made people really depressed when you threw it on them.

They faced off against a  AD&D Beholder that was magically displaced from Faerûn and sent across the multiverse. where it ended up in a superhero reality and basically murdered a cities' local PD and proceeded to level half a block in a blind rage. everyone survived (somehow) except Nightshade who got vaporized. they managed to kill the Beholder when they lured it into a bank and proceeded to drop a shelf of gold bars on it, killing it instantly.

The team shortly disbanded thereafter.

Quote from: MerrillWeathermay on April 01, 2025, 01:45:51 PMMayfair's DC Heroes, 2nd edition (also the Batman RPG from the same company, which uses the same rules basically)

The World at War Sourcebook for DC is specifically meant for this.

Quote from: Tristan on April 01, 2025, 09:31:07 PM

Quote from: MerrillWeathermay on April 01, 2025, 01:45:51 PMMayfair's DC Heroes, 2nd edition (also the Batman RPG from the same company, which uses the same rules basically)

The World at War Sourcebook for DC is specifically meant for this.

It even has stats for Hitler!