This is awesome — apparently the latest episode of Batman: Brave and the Bold (seen on YouTube here for as long as it stays up) is chock full of classic Silver Age Batman and Superman references, including old covers, nods to old costumes and storylines, and old character cameos. It’s just amazing — there’s more love for old comic books in that one half hour cartoon than there’s been on TV and in movies for the past ten years.

There’s even some straightforward references to old Bats/Supes battles, including the classic knockdown brawl in The Dark Knight Returns (where Batman proves, as far as I’m concerned, that given enough time, he could beat up anyone ever). This isn’t just a neat animator’s in-joke, this is a full-on homage to one of the most classic periods in superhero comics.

I’ve already gushed about how great DC and Warner Brothers have been doing with those straight-to-DVD movies lately (Crisis on Two Earths is my recent favorite, if you haven’t seen any of them), but this is just incredible: a seriously entertaining animated superhero show written and created by people who clearly know and love the old comics they’re based on.

Related: You should totally watch the Music Meister episode of Batman: BatB if you haven’t yet, featuring Neil Patrick Harris leading a musical story of Batman. And this scene from another episode, with the Birds of Prey girls singing to an evil Bruce Wayne about various DC superhero gossip, is just about the funniest comic-related thing around.