What Are The True Comic Book Age Categories?12758
 To answer your question, no, this is not where the comics go to die.
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| I'm curious as to what the real comic book age categories are and I apologize if this has been asked before. I got the list below from Wikipedia and it is also found on many other websites. I also see a "Copper" age floating around. Is this an actual timeline or just something people made up and started using? Victorian Age (1842–1897) Platinum Age (1897–1938) Golden Age (1938–1955) Silver Age (1956–1972) Bronze Age (1973–1985) Steel Age (or Modern Era) (1986–2015) |
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| Would that make 2015 - current the recycle or compost era?? Maybe start over again?? Platinum II - electric boogaloo?? or like the kids in sports - Diamond, Double Diamond etc?? everyone gets a ribbon?? |
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| seriously though...always thought "copper" was mid/late 80's to mid 90's and then mid 90's on was 'Modern" | ||
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| I was just wondering today when does Modern end? Geared up for the Palladium Age! | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by KatKomics It is. |
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To answer your question, no, this is not where the comics go to die.
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@KatKomics yeah the list only goes up to 2015 but the actual modern age page says to present  |
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| I've never heard anyone refer to the Steel Age of Comics. | ||
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| @MutantMania That list looks like the industrial ages. The Comic List that I have seen and use is: Platinum - 1897 - 1937 Golden - 1938 - 1955 Silver - 1956 - 1969 Bronze - 1970 - 1983 Copper - 1984 - 1991 Modern - 1992 - Present Hope this helps and If I am wrong, someone will correct me. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by zdoes10 That's about it. The only thing I would add is that you can't pick a specific date as to when an Age turned the corner. Different series flipped at different times. It's usually an issue defining moment. |
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| The list @zdoes10 posted is what I see and refer to. Personally I’d say modern ends around 2010 and we are currently in the Variant Age | ||
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| @zdoes10 Quote: Originally Posted by zdoes10 I like this version. Have to wonder though, what will come after modern? What name is more modern than “modern”? “Meta-Modern”?  |
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To answer your question, no, this is not where the comics go to die.
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Thanks for the info guys  another question... When did it change officially and why do so many websites still have the original list? |
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| There were really only two major events that defined an age: Superman in Action Comics 1 The Flash in Showcase 4 When we get to the end of the Silver age there are differing opinions - was it the Green Lanter/Green Arrow series (issue 76)? Was it Conan 1? There really isn't any sea-change event that changes from Silver to Bronze. The rest are just kind of placeholders for convenience - when I refer Bronze most people know approximately when that comic is from. There are a few extra that make sense, but are not as well known/used: Atomic Age (end of WWII to 1955 - the period between the abundant Superhero comics that died out at the end of the War until the appearance of the Flash) Marvel Age - Amazing Fantasy 15 through end of Silver Age. Really a subset of the Silver Age, but is arguably as important as the Silver Age itself. Though Showcase 4 brought back the Superhero comic, Marvel created a different way of representing Superheros - as super-powered Human beings, meaning they weren't 2 dimensional characters but had 'real world' concerns and issues. This is what gives us the superheros we have today. |
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| You can't have overlapping years. Is a book from 1938 Golden age or Platinum age? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Sure you can have overlaps....we get tin or like gold plated! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Looks like the Overstreet guide has overlaps. |
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I’ve always felt the age after the copper age should be the “nickel” age. Then after that (the current age) should be the “tin” age.  |
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| I've never liked the term "Modern Age." It's too broad and spans too long of a time period. Arguably "modern" could be used to describe any time people are currently living in; that is, people living in the 50s thought their era was "modern." The categories can only be defined looking back. Which makes me curious about when the eras were first defined and who decided on what they should be. The "Modern" age should be broken up and re-named. Personally, I think we're in the "Digital Age" which started whenever the publishers began including codes to view/purchase digital comics. |
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| when do we start the Woke age? | ||
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| I wonder if modern won't become just a shifting term, with 1992 to some designated time reappointed as the ( )-age. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by BrashSmurf I prefer to call it the Regressive Age. |
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| @obrie2tm Quote: Originally Posted by obrie2tm Exactly, the “Modern Age” spans almost 30 years. This is way more than any other age since Golden. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by BrashSmurf I was trying to think of a name for the "Bought new, pressed-and-slabbed-multiple-unread-copies-age" that started somewhere around 2010. And I think you may have just accidentally nailed it. |
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| I think the gimmick 90's should be Chromium Age. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Siggy The Polybag Age. |
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| For 2020 and on, how about the "End of Days" Age? | ||
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| Well, I’d decided not to engage in this discussion, then changed my mind and will probably regret that decision later on. Since this is an entirely subjective exercise, let me just get this off my chest, everyone’s wrong, ...including me! Why do I say that? Because there isn’t one defining moment to establish permanent markers in any logical critique of comic history. A critic of the conventional Overstreet hierarchy could point to the establishment of the traditional stapled comic pamphlet as the actual start of the GA and they’d have a point because without that format there probably wouldn’t be comics as we know them and Superman might never have existed or ended up as an anecdotal Sunday comic strip syndicated through several newspaper chains. The Atom Age is only logical as a sub-group. Changes in comics after the war are entirely logical with or without the emergence of nuclear power as both a weapon and energy source. Super heroes could hardly be expected to tone down their attributes in civilian cops and robbers scenarios after battling the immensity of Axis military might for four years. Maturing comic readers craved more adult themes and visual content in their stories reflective of the new realities at home including more prurient interests. The changes were all trial and error experimenting with crime themes, sexual content, romance, teen humor and horror. The rise of each of these genres took place over time, nailing it down to a specific year or Age is more complicated. Where there are marked changes, they’re established by events, but even that is somewhat misleading. Trends, such as satire are tough to lock down to a specific era beyond the creation of Mad Comics. Some satire comics survived for a time after the CCA by toning down suggestive content, while others ...like Mad... evolved into a magazine format. Also, the idea that the SA “starts” in 1956 isn’t technically accurate since content changes impacted publishers beginning in early ‘55. With self-imposed censorship helped along via the CCA and the government oversight which forced the issue certain types of comics went away or changed dramatically. Numerous publishers threw in the towel, closing up shop due to dwindling profits and public pressure. For those survivors, storylines were drastically cleansed and monitored to narrowly focus on a youth centered market. As for the reintroduction of superheroes, while it’s easiest to attribute the Flash as the first SA superhero, that’s not quite true. Reviving a redesigned classic DC character was the most obviously successful experiment, but S&K’s Fighting American (Prize), the long running GA Plastic Man (Quality) and other heroic featured characters made the transition from pre-code to CCA approved SA without a hiccup. Some superheroes (Plastic Man) that made the transition would disappear and be revived later or continue unabated (Blackhawk) having been acquired by one of the major surviving publishers. Notice that DC’s Superman and Batman sailed right through this tumultuous period with hardly any changes beyond the CCA stamp. I’m sure that there are similar considerations or reconsiderations between SA and Bronze/Copper ages and so-called Modern, The rise of Independent publishers suggests one kind of change, but even that wan an ongoing process taking years and included B&W comic reprints. Which also brings up the concept of Graphic Novels in the star filled astrological charting of comic ages. See, I told you I’d regret getting into this discussion. Sorry ‘bout that. I’m just going to blame it all on the caffeine and be done with it!   |
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| When is the post-modern age? | ||
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| I think the Modern age should end in 2008 with the release of Iron Man. After that, we have the Mainstream Age. The MCU has had an ENORMOUS impact on comics and I think it should be noted in the comic ages. | ||
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