Comments on: Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: The Bronze Age – A New Beginning Pt. 3

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:48:53 +0000

Right, then. That’s it. I’ve just decided that determining the border-dates for “Ages” named after metals is a mug’s game.
I’m going with decade designations from now on.

By: Some Stupid Japanese Name

Some Stupid Japanese Name — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:23:04 +0000

“the good buys were 100%”
Were they?

By: Richard Pachter

Richard Pachter — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:35:29 +0000

I’m forgetting all the crap, Scott.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:10:01 +0000

I would argue that most of what you’ve featured in this series so far are prominent examples of the silver age, and nothing to do with the bronze age at all. Rutland Halloween stories, DC Earth Prime, the horror resurgence, funny comics? All silver age.

The bronze age was about BIGness. BIG crossovers, BIG tie-ins and toy lines, BIG events, BIG name writers and artists, and an actual growth in the comic industry as opposed to the decline of the early/mid 70s.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:01:23 +0000

I’m moving goalposts here, folks. Rethinking the entire debate. Why can’t the Bronze Age start in ’67?

It’s as good a year as any, in my books.

There’s a fine line between visionary and quack.

By: mrclam

mrclam — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:16:26 +0000

Okay, I know this article was a joke, but my humorless inner fanboy must say “But this came out in ’67–it’s automatically from the Silver Age!”

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:24:21 +0000

I find it difficult to believe that there’s anything here that Mad hadn’t done decades earlier. (And backwards in high heels, as well.)