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Gen
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"Golden Age Comics thread"
, posted Tue 1 Oct 17:39
Please share your thoughts on Golden Age comics here.
I'm haven't read enough old comics for me to think of them 1st hand as different ages. What is the significance of Golden, Silver, etc? I suppose they reference the quality and the spirit of the age as well as recognizes changes that have taken place and divide them into different time periods.
I recently ordered Black Angel because I know the illustrator. http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/5641 Black Angel comes from Hillman Periodicals comics originally, along with characters like Air Boy, Sky Wolf, Valkyrie, and others.
In the 80's Eclipse bought the rights to Hillman Periodicals books and reprinted them along with making some new comics of the characters.
The copy I'll be getting is a reprint made in 1996 by Verotik, Glen Danzig's comic book company.
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Satoshi_Miwa
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"Re(1):Golden Age Comics thread"
, posted Tue 1 Oct 18:15
Such terms are used for a varitey of reasons. One of the big ones is to help price books, as Golden age books tend to sell for a higher price than silver age books.
But there are also very important story differences between the ages, as both ages reflected the times they covered (Golden age having alot of Propganda comics, and Hero's versus Nazi's type stuff). Also the Golden Age has more of a pioneering feel to the comics, whereas the Silver age is more under the effects of the Comic's Code Authority. The Silver Age has more of a campy feel, especially due to the Post War idealism and Cold War escapism. While the Golden Age hasmore of a pulp feel, and has lots of horror and Noir themes (EC made it's start here with Tales of the crypt).
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"Re(2):Golden Age Comics thread"
, posted Thu 3 Oct 09:58
I'm hardly an expert but if I understand it correctly for US comics the Golden Age runs from the start of comic books as a medium [going from collected anthologies of newspaper strips to original stories sometime in the 1930's] to the time Congressional hearings forced the creation of the Comics Code and nearly stamped out the industry as a whole. The Silver Age started with the revival of several old super heroes who had been scrapped years before and was notable for the initial start up and high level of productivity of Marvel comics while DC comics had a strange infatuation with gorillas in their main line of comics as well as Sgt. Rock and all those other crazy-ass war comics they were publishing. The end of the Silver Age is, obviously, debatable but one of the most common benchmarks I've heard is the death of Gwen Stacy. What particular area of the Golden Age stuff have you been poking around in? Wil Eisner's stuff? EC's "Tales from the Crypt" and all the ghoulish crime and horror comics that came out of that trend?
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"Re(3):Golden Age Comics thread"
, posted Fri 4 Oct 12:57
quote: I'm hardly an expert but if I understand it correctly for US comics the Golden Age runs from the start of comic books as a medium [going from collected anthologies of newspaper strips to original stories sometime in the 1930's] to the time Congressional hearings forced the creation of the Comics Code and nearly stamped out the industry as a whole. The Silver Age started with the revival of several old super heroes who had been scrapped years before and was notable for the initial start up and high level of productivity of Marvel comics while DC comics had a strange infatuation with gorillas in their main line of comics as well as Sgt. Rock and all those other crazy-ass war comics they were publishing. The end of the Silver Age is, obviously, debatable but one of the most common benchmarks I've heard is the death of Gwen Stacy. What particular area of the Golden Age stuff have you been poking around in? Wil Eisner's stuff? EC's "Tales from the Crypt" and all the ghoulish crime and horror comics that came out of that trend?
I'm looking at Air Boy, Air Fighters, and comics that characters from them appeared in. Hangman, The Web, and a few others.
I'm really not especially familiar with Wil Eisner.
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