So What Exactly Are We Talking About When We Talk About the Bronze Age?
It occurred to me that one reason all the many debates about the merits of GL 76, what book started the Bronze Age, etc. etc. keep spinning around and around is because there really isn’t a concise definition of what we mean when we talk about a bronze age of comics.
With Golden Age, it is pretty much accepted that it is the rise of comic book costumed super-heroes. With Silver Age, it is pretty much accepted that it is the return to popularity of comic book costumed super-heroes. With
3. Radical experimentation / anything goes / the suits relinquish control
- Though there are many different stories out there about The Night Gwen Stacy Died, it is clear that Stan Lee had left the day-to-day oversight of the character by then:
- Indeed, after Stan Lee stepped down as Marvel Editor-in-Chief, Marvel went through 5 EICs in as many years: Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway, Archie Goodwin.
- Howard Chaykin (in his intro