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Prowl
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:56 am |
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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?
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:16 am |
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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.
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Rafael
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:55 am |
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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.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:59 am |
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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.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:01 am |
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Prowl wrote: 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? 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.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:02 am |
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Rafael wrote: 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. I have Rafael on ignore.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:08 am |
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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.
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Uncle Twitchy
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:33 am |
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Or, as they say in the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", the Age of Not Believing.
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Joe Mayer
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:45 am |
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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.
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:52 am |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: I'll settle this for you fruits --
Golden Age - Famous Funnies #1 onward (Yes)
Silver Age - Showcase #4 onward (Probably)
Bronze Age - Death of Gwen Stacy onward (No)
Iron Age - Watchmen #1 onward (What?)
Ultimate Age - Ultimate Spider-Man #1 onward (You're high)
If sales keep going the way they are, we may be entering The Final Age. (It's the "Quesadidio Age" you moron.)
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:06 am |
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How would you do it, you moron?
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:14 am |
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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
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:18 am |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: How would you do it, you moron? 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.
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Uncle Twitchy
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:23 am |
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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.
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:30 am |
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Night Owl wrote: 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 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.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:31 am |
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Uncle Twitchy wrote: 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. No way, Bronze Age is a real thing.
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:35 am |
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Li'l Jay wrote: No way, Bronze Age is a real thing. (™ Coca-Cola Company, 1971) The RC Cola Age The Grape Nehi Age The Coca-Cola Age The Pepsi Generation The Jolt Cola Age The Red Bull Age
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:36 am |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: Li'l Jay wrote: No way, Bronze Age is a real thing. (™ Coca-Cola Company, 1971) 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.
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Uncle Twitchy
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:37 am |
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Li'l Jay wrote: Uncle Twitchy wrote: 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. No way, Bronze Age is a real thing. 
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:37 am |
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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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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:40 am |
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Night Owl wrote: Fun Fact: I bought my first and only New Coke to drink while I read John Byrne's Hulk and Squadron Supreme. They say that extreme stress helps cement an event in your memory.
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Comics Jargon - Golden Age, Silver Age, Etc. Is It Time For A New One? Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:42 am |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: Night Owl wrote: Fun Fact: I bought my first and only New Coke to drink while I read John Byrne's Hulk and Squadron Supreme. They say that extreme stress helps cement an event in your memory. 
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