I read this elsewhere, and thought there was a good point.

DC's doing a pretty major thing with the reboot.

An almost complete wipe of continuity and a change in the way they structure their books (not writing for the trade, same day digital, etc etc) is something that could make or break the company.

So - is it time for this to be dubbed the end of an age, and the beginning of the new?

Silver Age is ?generally? taken to have started with the introduction of Barry Allen, or for some the first issue of FF.

Then it goes into bronze age. I think that starts with Crisis, maybe?

What would this be called?

Digital Age seems obvious, if there's a significant increase in sales there. Marvel's been doing the Ultimate line same day digital for awhile, and they just announced that the regular Spider-Man and X-Men titles will be the same, with the Avengers and other titles being added later.

People have never even agreed when the Bronze Age started or ended, or even what to call the following era. And any naming/separation beyond that is done mainly to make a point.

So I guess starting a Digital Age now is as good postulation as any. But Silicon Age keeps more in tone with the previous ones.

As far as I'm concerned, another age started after

Secret Wars
Crisis
Watchmen
DKR

And I think we're still in it. Maybe digital will seem like a new age. Time will tell.

Silver Age is generally understood to have ended with the 1960's, or perhaps when Kirby left FF and Marvel.

The Bronze Age is the time from then, and is often tied to things like Roy Thomas taking over, or starting the Conan title, etc. Definitely includes the explosion of all those horror titles Marvel did in the early 1970's.

It stretches up past 1980 for sure. Hard to say when it ends.

I have Rafael on ignore.

I'll settle this for you fruits --

Golden Age - Famous Funnies #1 onward

Silver Age - Showcase #4 onward

Bronze Age - Death of Gwen Stacy onward

Iron Age - Watchmen #1 onward

Ultimate Age - Ultimate Spider-Man #1 onward

If sales keep going the way they are, we may be entering The Final Age.

Or, as they say in the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", the Age of Not Believing.

I think the age can only be called anage if it takes off. DC is certainly making a move to begin a new age, the question I have is whether it sticks. The mentality behind the comics feels as though it is much the same as it has been for the past 20 years. I suppose some of the belts, pouches, and oversized guns have been removed, but the stories don't feel much different.

How would you do it, you moron?

Golden Age

Silver Age

Bronze Age

Fanboy Age (1985-1992)

Dark Age (1993-2000)

Renaissance (2001-2010)

Desperate Age (2011 - 2013)

Collapse (2014 - 2016)

Digital Age

Stacy died in '73, which would put Kirby's New Gods, Swamp Thing & Man-Thing, Kamandi, Jonah Hex... all in the Silver Age (which doesn't work). There's no perfect delineation, but O'Neal/Adams on GL/GA or Kirby leaving Marvel work better for the shift from Silver Age to Bronze Age.

Ultimate Age doesn't work for me because the Ultimates line was just an addition to Marvel, it didn't accompany a major change in comics as a whole.

Silver Age, for me, is everything between Showcase #4 and Crisis on Infinite Earths #12. After that it's just the Modern Age until this whole Digital Age thing defines itself.

That works. I put the Renaissance a year or two earlier with the start of ABC Comics.

And I think the desperation started a few years earlier too.

No way, Bronze Age is a real thing.

The RC Cola Age
The Grape Nehi Age
The Coca-Cola Age
The Pepsi Generation
The Jolt Cola Age
The Red Bull Age

You forgot New Coke age.

Fun Fact: I bought my first and only New Coke to drink while I read John Byrne's Hulk and Squadron Supreme.

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