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    What Period Does GA Begin and End For You For Collecting...

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    On 10/29/2023 at 5:41 PM, Krydel4 said:

    I know the "official" time period is 1938-1956. But for me personally, I don't consider anything past 1949 as being GA. The 1950 for me is the demarcation point. My buddy who also collects GA considers basically AC1 to the end of WW2 as the GA and doesn't collect outside that period. I can see his point as these 2 comics were only published 5 years apart but could be a million given how different just the cover art style. The AC is never going to be mistaken for a modern book but the SA wouldn't look out of place in the Bronze age. Just from the covers alone. Do any of you have personal starting/cutoff points for collecting GA that are different from the "official" time period?

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    Not sure where you get “official” period of GA is 1938 - 1956? The GA was pretty much over with the end of WW2. Superheroes tried to fight crime after the defeating the Axis Powers, but the crime comics along with romance and horror genres, caught the public’s attention given the postwar fears of atomic war and communism. The best examples of this change are first seen in comics like Crime Does Not Pay, Young Romance, and then of course EC Comics. DC Comics did keep the Superman (Adventure and Superboy) and Batman “family books” along with Wonder Woman through the 1950s, which was significant given that a part of the DC Silver Age success was attributed to a continuity of these GA characters (see BB 28 and the Justice League of America). Still, comic books published by EC Comics were in no way similar to what was hit the newsstands during the war years that preceded. So it’s clear that the period following the demise of the superhero (see Atlas and then that publisher’s failed attempt to bring back the Submariner, Captain America, and the Human Torch during the mid-50s) was a different era and should be called the Atomic Age. Period. 

    What are the top 5 Pedigree’s in your opinion?

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    The question needs to be qualified unless the OP makes this an exclusive Golden Age top 5 thread because a collector of Atomic Age precode horror will include Spokane books (incredible page quality!) on their top 5 list. Not to mention Salida war books and Pacific Coast Silver Age copies. Silver Age romance books are found in the Oakland and Savannah Pedigree Collections. Church books will always be on the list in just about every category but any pedigree question gets complicated given the different genres and eras collectors focus on. “D Copies” are found in so many genres and eras that the range itself makes it a fascinating collection. Palo Alto’s are special books that hold their own during the Atomic Age. File Copies like Gaines are what I call “Time Capsule Collections” given the publisher’s intent behind them and this makes them truly special. It’s a difficult question when we get past the Church books. I can spend an infinite amount of time discussing the pedigrees and how they are distinguished from one another due to their special attributes and the provenance each has.