American Comics: Bronze Age Golden Age
When people ask me why I have dedicated my site is Comics "T> Steve Bronze No age comics comics, the most famous silver or golden age, I say the answer is simple. because to me, Bronze Age was the golden age of comics.
It is true that this may have something to do with my own thinking. I grew up in this era of self-determination Bronze. However, thanks to Marvel UK Weekly reprints hand, also grew up reading Silver Age magazines, and 100 pages of 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 such as Captain Marvel, selling over a million copies per month and superheroes such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman was released for the first time.
The Silver Age may have been the revival of form with age Marvel is giving us the likes of Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk and Fantastic Four, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby reinvented form.
But for me the true age Gold American comics has declined between 1968 and 1978. Now some might argue that time, 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 of the DC, 1978 markers are natural at a time. It is a moment where both Marvel and DC have the power revolutions of 1960 and has stayed with her and make comics in new directions. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee may have opened new perspectives in history but they were still operating with a relatively narrow range.
It was in the Bronze Age in this wider range. Suddenly, thanks to Roy Thomas, who have been licensed characters like Conan the Barbarian, and the absence of excessive regulation of the Code of comics, Marvel has seen the rise of base of horror titles like Tomb of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Werewolf by Night, not to mention black and white magazines Sword Wild tales of Conan the Zombie and Monsters Unleashed.
Not one to be outdone, CC also has horror, with the likes of strangers stories of war, the witching hour, the unexpected and the House of Mystery. Some of these titles were launched before 1968, but there was always a sense, the Bronze Age was his natural habitat.
Speaking of terror, we must not forget the guys from Derby, Charlton Comics, always present in the Bronze Age and even gives us a little more with people like E-Man and Roger Byrne, John (2000).
However, Charlton are not the only independent at all. We have always been people like Dell, Gold Key, and Skywald – UK – Alan kinds to choose from. In 1975, Marvel founder Martin Goodman, even gave us a brand new comic company in the name of Atlas. Not've could last long, but in his short time in our world, gave us a new publisher with titles have gathered.
1975 was clearly a special year because in addition to the launch of the Atlas, which saw the relaunch of the X-Men, an act would have a profound impact on the comic book industry in the coming decades. After some years of Amazing Spider-Man 'S The Gwen Stacy's death and a year after the introduction of The Punisher, things changed forever. As if to rub it, which also won (1974) 'S Creation Wolverine (1976) from the time of making crossover Superman vs. Spider-Man, the aforementioned Tomb of Dracula, Jack Kirby Kamandi, Michael Fleisher Art Saaf spectrum and even less revolutionary, but please always reinventing Supergirl. And it really was much better than the defenders DB Steve Gerber, a saga of super-hero who does not fit in?
So when people say, "Steve, what's the big fuss about of the Bronze Age where you can celebrate the Silver Age or Golden? "I have no hesitation in saying that sometimes, if you scratch the surface of bronze in it, so perhaps the pure 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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