What's the difference between the Golden Age and the Silver Age of Comics? What time

[Andrewxh]

What's the difference between the Golden Age and the Silver Age of comics?
I'm holding a comics-related discussion but I don't know the difference. Please help.
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[habib]

The Golden Age of comics is from the late 30's (many consider Action #1 to be the start of the GA) to mid 50's.

The Silver Age of comics starts in the mid 50's (most consider Showcase #4 to be the start of the SA) to 1970.

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[malaprop]

I've always thought those distictions may be useful for superheroes, but don't really apply to "all other". Are Barks Walt disney's Comics and Stories from 1955 any different from those of 1959? How about Archies? maybe the imposition of the Code ought to be the end of the Golden Age.

[dc kev]

For me, it's always been the cover price....golden age was 10-centers, silver was 12-centers and bronze 15-30 centers.

[toz1960]

I look at as when the comics code was implanted.That was a major event and it killed a lot of books.Showcase #4 is also a good point as it re-introduces the super-hero(maybe this could be called the first retcon).

CCA stamp
Price increase
re-intro of the Surper Hero

Take your pick.

[nocutename]

For me, it's always been the cover price....golden age was 10-centers, silver was 12-centers and bronze 15-30 centers.

That's how I tell the ages as well but for me BA starts at .20¢. I don't know I just like comics.

[capt.steel]

Wasn't there a movement to insert the "Atomic Age" in between the Golden & Silver ages?

[illuminated]

Wasn't there a movement to insert the "Atomic Age" in between the Golden & Silver ages?

Still is. Also known as the Atom Age.

Don't even get me started on Copper Age. The end of the Bronze Age is even more convoluted than the beginning. I've seen dates ranging from 1979 to 1993 for the end of the Bronze Age. Personally, I consider Bronze Age to be synonymous with "1970s".

One of the biggest problems is the "Modern Age" moniker. Having a historical age known as the "Modern Age" is just kooky, as it must include Current comics, unless we have a Post-Modern age.

By and large, I avoid much of this by collecting mostly stuff from 60¢ cover price and back. When comics went to 75¢, I pretty much bailed, as other interests took my funds, and it seemed to me then that comics were getting pretty crappy.

[stupidman]

Wasn't there a movement to insert the "Atomic Age" in between the Golden & Silver ages?

Yeah, that's why the Golden Age ends before 1950. No way are EC Comics from the Golden Age. The difference in story/art are night and day.

[mordo]

Don't even get me started on Copper Age. The end of the Bronze Age is even more convoluted than the beginning. I've seen dates ranging from 1979 to 1993 for the end of the Bronze Age. Personally, I consider Bronze Age to be synonymous with "1970s".


I consider the 1970s, starting with Conan #1, as the Bronze Age period. It doesn't bother me too much that Overstreet and others have extended it to 1984, but the 1980-1984 period was formerly known as the beginning of the Modern Age for such a long time that it still doesn't feel quite right to call it a part of the Bronze Age.

[mordo]

Just messing around but in my ideal world here are the ages:

Platinum Age 1933-1938
Golden Age 1938-1945
Atom Age 1946-1954
Post-Atom Age 1955-1960
Silver Age 1961-1969
Bronze Age 1970-1979
Post-Bronze Age 1980-1984
Copper Age 1985-1992