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Can I get a dispensation??? I wanna go bronze this once so I can go pearl necklace to pearl necklace!

Contemporary is books now.- belonging to or occurring in the present. Modern is a period. There are a lot of non-variants that I will take off of your hands after the Copper age. Shall I make a list or do you want to? I should've clarified but thats exactly what I was getting at... Anything after the last defined age would be within the contemporary age. Always moving to accommodate the leftovers. While they mean the same thing, syntactically contemporary seems more appropriate. I certainly don't feel like making a list but would love to see one. I'm always looking for books to buy. Haha, I was suggesting I will make a list if you are willing to unload them since they aren't worth anything. Phew! It IS a barren wasteland! And I thought I was missing something and should be open-minded. Thanks, this is much easier!

There are a lot of non-variants that I will take off of your hands after the Copper age. Shall I make a list or do you want to? As someone who quit buying new titles a while ago, I would sincerely appreciate that. I mean, of course I've seen the walls with #1's of Saga, Chew, Invincible, etc. I know of the Walking Dead craze, but I do not know to distinguish the keys with staying power on pure content/character-driven supply and demand only, absent any variant status, from books not likely to stand the test of time and give us the next cross-generational characters. Maybe that's it's own thread, but I Could sure use it.

...to she-skull in the back seat of a cab

Seriously, on bronze I agree with Jimbo and Ken that it doesn't go much past 1980, if that. But I would pick 1980 based on the launch of the New Teen Titans, DC's for way toward the mid-Bronze model set by the new X-Men. I do agree that much bronze significance is front-loaded in the first half of the 70s -- Conan 1, Adams/O'Neil GL and Bats, ASM drug issues, Hero for Hero #1, Marvel Spotlight 2, etc.

After all the pressing? (Ironing)?

Green witch to Green Mask

If I still have his # in my phone, I will text him, out of curiosity....Love to know what struck him at the time....then again, I'd love to know what struck ME that I still have 15 copies of Elementals #1

Doubtful. ASM 96 came out a year after GL 76. You're thinking of GL 85/86 Nope, just botched the chronology! Thank you! All those books (GL run and the ASM 3-part) had important bronze impacts, as ground-breakers. I still think 395 is underrated compared to them. While it did not push back on the Code in the same way, it is Adams and O'Neil beginning to create their version of the Batman mythos, harkening back to pre-Robin and laying the path that the character continues on to this day. It's not important in the same way as those boundary-pushers, but it's step 1 in a major turning point for one of the biggest of characters. (Heck, looking at recent prices for the GL drug issues and the ASM run, one could argue they are underrated these days too, considering their importance as well. Not that value is the sole reflection of importance, far from it, but it is a barometer of recognition, I suppose.)

Cooking some thigh to lugging dead guy

Had to dig these out for you...early 60's....this is the entire run...

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...if all we're concerned with here is a passage of time, then grouping by decade is probably the best way...... the Golden Age and Silver Age achieved their respective titles because of what had been produced during that period.... the material created the parameter for classification, it wasn't just applied randomly or haphazardly because there was nothing better to do. It was "earned" if that is even the right word. Maybe "deserved" is more accurate. I can't remember the last time a noteworthy change occurred in comics..... it's been the same 'ole same 'ole since the Walking Dead over a decade ago, and that was more a crystallization of themes and ideas that had been gestating since the late 80's. The fact that no one seems to be able to make anything stick seems to illustrate my point. If I had to come up with something, 1990-2000 would be "Chromium" and 2000 -2010ish would be "variant"...... GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) I think Jimbo is exactly right, and I have felt this way since '70s books began to be referred to as Bronze. There are two important historical eras of greatest significance in the hobby; the rest is labels for decades, varying levels of minor importance aside. (This does NOT, to my thinking, diminish major singular events/appearances in those later eras. Like many of you, I can articulate and support the arguments for the importance of GL76, ASM96, Hulk 181, independent publishers, direct distribution, etc.) Not every timespan needs an "era" label, but we've got them so we use them out of convenience and common nomenclature. It is telling that we are going on 25 years and no new designation is catching on. ...I want to clarify one thing about my post.... I don't mean to imply that comics from the last couple of decades are devolving or somehow substandard.... in fact, I feel they have highlights that are as good as it gets. My point is that, to me, the medium has fully evolved and the application of further categorization is meaningless, except where historical overtures are influential, which tends to apply more to marketing issues and those relationships..... like the emergence of variant rarities to service the slabbing demands of the last decade or so..... As for Bronze Age, perhaps an argument for it's intrinsic relevance is the loosening of the Comics Code and the wave of fresh material that ensued..... unfortunately, that "freshness", again, to me, seemed to quickly become gratuitous. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Excellent points. The original 'ages" were a response to the rise and fall and then rebirth of superhero comics. Even when we can retroactively discern a shift in the medium dramatic enough to define the start and end of a new "age", it is far more a progression than a completely new cycle. I don't know when "Bronze" became the preferred term for comics of the 1970s, but I do recall that in the middle of the decade there was little thought as to whether the Silver Age had actually ended, even though it was clear the comics of 1975 were different from the comics of 1965. Most of the titles and characters introduced in the previous twenty years were still running, so it hardly felt like an era was over. My experience too; and once again Jimbo nails it. Jimbo, I agree the relevance of the Bronze is the loosening of the CCA; I don't mean to diminish that. In fact, as the silver ushered back (and more importantly reinvented) the golden age milieu of heroes, the bronze, by loosening the CCA, brought back most of what was important and new about 1950s non-hero genres (often in superhero books too). I think it's a diminishment of the silver age to refer to it simply as the return of the heroes. The real genius of the era was in how the superhero was reinvented and fleshed out. The bronze took back the ground lost in the 50's, minus the most egregious visuals that led to Wertham's and Kefauver's witch hunts. And there's the importance of ASM 96, GL76 et al; they kicked the doors back open, and a decade or so later much of what the independents did was possible. (With steps in between, of course, but I'm summarizing the arc, not writing a history book in one post.)

Dearly beloved to nearly beheaded

Yes, I probably need to read issues before and after to put the story in proper historic reference. I have Batman #255 up next. I'm told that's another classic story. Thanks for the response. The thing that struck me when I read it was the first thing Adams and O'Neil did out of the gate was play with the concept of an immortal villain. While they say they weren't doing it consciously, I see it as a loose prototype for Ras al Ghul, and therefore much of what their Batman work together flourished into. I think it's an underrated bronze key with longer legs than GL76, iconic cover aside. I love GL 76, but ASM 96, another underrated bronze key, made that run possible.

...if all we're concerned with here is a passage of time, then grouping by decade is probably the best way...... the Golden Age and Silver Age achieved their respective titles because of what had been produced during that period.... the material created the parameter for classification, it wasn't just applied randomly or haphazardly because there was nothing better to do. It was "earned" if that is even the right word. Maybe "deserved" is more accurate. I can't remember the last time a noteworthy change occurred in comics..... it's been the same 'ole same 'ole since the Walking Dead over a decade ago, and that was more a crystallization of themes and ideas that had been gestating since the late 80's. The fact that no one seems to be able to make anything stick seems to illustrate my point. If I had to come up with something, 1990-2000 would be "Chromium" and 2000 -2010ish would be "variant"...... GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) I think Jimbo is exactly right, and I have felt this way since '70s books began to be referred to as Bronze. There are two important historical eras of greatest significance in the hobby; the rest is labels for decades, varying levels of minor importance aside. (This does NOT, to my thinking, diminish major singular events/appearances in those later eras. Like many of you, I can articulate and support the arguments for the importance of GL76, ASM96, Hulk 181, independent publishers, direct distribution, etc.) Not every timespan needs an "era" label, but we've got them so we use them out of convenience and common nomenclature. It is telling that we are going on 25 years and no new designation is catching on.

20 on the nose, to be exact. I cannot figure out why he would have speculated on this particular issue.

Congratulations! It's thoroughly him, with the faintest of nods to vintage E.C. Sci-fi. At least, that's how it struck me. It's beautiful, enjoy!

Interesting! I got the Daring 6 from Metro in 1991 or so in a trade for a Forbidden Planet one-sheet... It's just as gorgeous as I remembered, buddy. You won the trade. You got a comic book

So I buy a guy's small collection today, a smattering of this and that, but nothing great with the bulk coming from bronze and copper, it seems...but for some reason he has in there about 20 (maybe 17, maybe 23; I haven't grouped them all together yet, but counted one cluster of 15) copies of Crisis on Infinite Earths #3. What was this guy betting on?

Lady emerges from glass tube while dude with head in glass tube bashes green monsters

Ain't it great? Sadly, yes

Warplanes to warplanes

All Winners to All Winners

And a contender for the most worthless 9.8 steps up..... Trouble #1 (2003) Last 9.8 sale on GPA: $3 Last 9.8 sale prior to that... $5 Last 9.6 sale on GPA: $2 OH! But wait! Atomik Mike comes back swinging hard! Last 9.8 sale on GPA: $1 Isn't a slabbed 9.8 selling for a buck really like a -$32 comic??? Let's not sell this short! Negative 32 baby!