tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post6738957605657684414..comments2023-11-30T02:39:02.047-06:00Comments on Comics Make No Sense: In Which Adam Defines the Official Beginning of the Silver Age Once and For AllAdam Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-40363035937792451952015-08-21T17:37:09.167-05:002015-08-21T17:37:09.167-05:00Well, FWIW, Kirby first started doing work for Atl...Well, FWIW, Kirby first started doing work for Atlas in 1956, the same year the Flash debuted. He didn't work continuously for Atlas throughout '57, though, because publisher Goodman cut off regular assignments for about a year, reputedly because Lee had amassed too much backstocked art. Then in '58 Kirby began a regular account with Atlas, and that's when he started doing, not superheroes, but the big Godzilla-style monsters that everyone associates with the pre-Marvel Atlas. I'm no expert on early Atlas, but I don't think they flirted too much with the giant monster schtick before 1956, when Godzilla actually made it to US shores. Before Kirby returned, I've the impression that Atlas' horror stories hewed closer to the EC mold. So Kirby started his "monster line" about the same time that DC started reviving its Golden Age superheroes in earnest-- a new Green Lantern in '59, and a new incarnation of the JSA in 1960. <br /><br />Ditko was doing more low-key horror stories, but some of them contributed a mood similar to the work he'd use for his superheroes. Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-12380030636398128892015-08-21T17:24:28.843-05:002015-08-21T17:24:28.843-05:00I'm just surprised that Susie knew what FAUST ...I'm just surprised that Susie knew what FAUST was.<br /><br />I'm a little surprised that any Superman writers knew, for that matter. Not the Batman writers, though. Very learned chaps, in my opinion.Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-19904681108529253642015-08-21T14:30:18.713-05:002015-08-21T14:30:18.713-05:00I don't know; I wouldn't think Marvel ente... I don't know; I wouldn't think Marvel entered the Silver Age in 1956; I thought they were doing the same old stuff(monsters and Westerns, mostly) until 1961.Aaron Carinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17694155469435310102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-74761953840449490722015-08-21T09:35:18.354-05:002015-08-21T09:35:18.354-05:00"I like to think that the Silver Age began at..."I like to think that the Silver Age began at different times for DC and Marvel--for DC, with the 1956 debut of the Barry Allen Flash, for Marvel, with the debut of the Fantastic Four in 1961."<br /><br />Since the FF comic (and subsequent 1961-62 Marvel superheroes were a response to the sales increases DC's superheroes were generating, wouldn't they be part of the trend started with Showcase #4? ;-)Britt Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-76443024687710438582015-08-20T16:39:10.155-05:002015-08-20T16:39:10.155-05:00I like to think that the Silver Age began at diffe...I like to think that the Silver Age began at different times for DC and Marvel--for DC, with the 1956 debut of the Barry Allen Flash, for Marvel, with the debut of the Fantastic Four in 1961.Aaron Carinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17694155469435310102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-18630258402698221372015-08-20T13:05:07.141-05:002015-08-20T13:05:07.141-05:00I'd agree on 1971. You had the whole Kryptonit...I'd agree on 1971. You had the whole Kryptonite Nevermore and Neal Adams on Batman and over at Marvel the Kree-Skrull War. Maybe not all 1971, but you could see the changes. <br /><br />I've also heard people say a fifteen-year cycle. 1940-1955, 1956-1970, 1971-1985, which gave us COIE, et. al.<br />Wayne Allen Salleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17199261942617339556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-80714430263878082982015-08-20T07:43:42.458-05:002015-08-20T07:43:42.458-05:00As humor, this article is first-rate, well-researc...As humor, this article is first-rate, well-researched and written.<br />However, the general consensus is that the <i>Silver Age</i> began with <b>Showcase</b> #4 (premiere appearance of Flash II [Barry Allen], the first of the "reboot" superheroes, and ended with the rewrite of the <b>Comics Code</b> in 1971.<br />The following <i>Bronze Age</i> ended with <b>Crisis on Infinite Earths</b>.Britt Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-21932829834775184422015-08-20T06:28:22.180-05:002015-08-20T06:28:22.180-05:00Didn't Crisis/Watchmen/Dark Knight Returns end...Didn't Crisis/Watchmen/Dark Knight Returns end the Bronze Age?<br />Aaron Carinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17694155469435310102noreply@blogger.com