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American comic books: the Bronze Age Golden Age
When people ask me why I have dedicated my site Is Comics "> Steve T Comics Bronze Age comics, not the most famous silver or gold Ages, I say the answer is simple. It because to me, Bronze Age was the golden age of comics.
Admittedly, this may have something to do with my own thought. I grew up in this age of self-determination Bronze. However, thanks to Marvel UK weekly reprints hand, I also grew up reading magazines Silver Age, and with 100 pages DC Comics, Golden Age stories were always at hand.
It is true that the Golden Age may have seen the peak in sales of comic books, with titles like Captain Marvel, selling over a million copies per month, and superheroes like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman hit the shelves for the first time.
The Silver Age may have been the revival of form with age Marvel giving us the likes of Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk and the Fantastic Four, as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby reinvented form.
But for me the real golden age of American comics has declined between 1968 and 1978. Now, some might argue those dates the Bronze Age, and I can understand that. It has always been a difficult time to tie but I always felt the expansion of Marvel in 1968 and the implosion DC, 1978 bookmarks are natural at a time. It is a moment where both Marvel and DC have the energy of their revolutions of the 1960s and ran with it and take the comics in new directions. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee may have opened up new views in the story, but they were still in operation with a relatively narrow range.
He was in the Bronze Age in this broader range. Suddenly, thanks to Roy Thomas, we have been licensed characters like Conan the Barbarian, and freedom from over-regulation of the Code of Comics, Marvel has seen the emergence of basis of horror titles like Tomb of Dracula, Frankenstein and Werewolf by Night, not to mention black and white mags like Savage Sword of Conan Tales of the Zombie and Monsters Unleashed.
Not one to be outdone, DC has also horror, with the likes of Strange War Tales, The Hour of the witches, the unexpected and House of Mystery. Some these titles were launched before 1968, but there was always a sense, the Bronze Age was their natural habitat.
Speaking of horror, we must not forget the boys of Derby, Charlton Comics, always present in the Bronze Age and even give us a little extra with people like E-Man and John Byrne Rog (2000).
But Charlton are not the only independent around. We have always been people like Dell, Gold Key, and Skywald - UK - Alan class to choose. In 1975, Marvel founder Martin Goodman even gave us a brand new comic company, under the name of Atlas. It could not've lasted long, but in his short time in our world, it gave us yet another publisher with titles we have collected.
1975 was clearly a special year because in addition to the launch of the Atlas, we saw the re-launch of The X-Men, an act that would have profound impact on industry of comics for decades to come. After some years of Amazing Spider-Man 'S The Death of Gwen Stacy and one year after the introduction of the Punisher, things changed forever. As if to rub it, we also obtained (1974) 'S Creation of Wolverine (1976) of the epoch-making crossover Superman vs. Spider-Man, the aforementioned Tomb of Dracula, Jack Kamandi Kirby, Michael Fleisher Art Saaf spectrum and even less revolutionary, but please always reinventing Supergirl. And there really was much better than BD defenders Steve Gerber, a saga of super-hero who just does not fit in?
So when people say, "Steve, what's the big fuss about the Bronze Age where you could celebrate the Silver Age or Golden? "I have no hesitation to say that sometimes, if you scratch a surface of bronze in it, what you are perhaps the purest gold.
About the Author
Hi, I gave the world the blogs Steve Does Comics and Steve Does Everything, not to mention the novels Danny Yates Must Die and Mr Landen Has No Brain (still available from all good online bookstores), plus various other crimes against humanity that are too numerous and shameful to mention.
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History of Comics: Silver Age of Comic Books, Comics Code Authority, Golden Age of Comic Books, Modern Age of Comic Books, History $25.68 Chapters: Silver Age of Comic Books, Comics Code Authority, Golden Age of Comic Books, Modern Age of Comic Books, History of Manga, History of Superman, Portrayal of Black People in Comics, Bronze Age of Comic Books, Comic Book Collecting, Portrayal of Women in Comics, Dc Implosion. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 155. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Modern Age of Comic Books is an informal name for the period in the history of mainstream American comic books generally considered to last from the mid-1980s until present day. In this period, comic book characters generally became darker and more psychologically complex, creators became better-known and active in changing the industry, independent comics flourished, and larger publishing houses became more commercialized. Alternate names for this period include the Copper Age, the Iron Age, and, more commonly, the Dark Age of Comic Books, due to the popularity and artistic influence of grim titles, such as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. Some schools of thought place the dark age as a separate era, ending in the mid-90s. Proponents of this view often point out a wave of "silver age nostalgia" that appeared during this time Because the time period encompassing the Modern Age is not well defined, and in some cases disputed by both fans and most professionals, a comprehensive history is open to debate. Many influences from the Bronze Age would overlap with the infancy of the Modern Age. The work of creators such as John Byrne (Alpha Flight, Fantastic Four), Chris Claremont (Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men), and Frank Miller (Daredevil) would reach fruition in the Bronze Age but their impact was still felt in the Modern Age. The Uncanny X-Men is the most definitive example of this impact as Bronze Age characters such as Wol...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=129518 |
