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
I'm also going to use this thread to rescue my review of 1971's Forever People #3. The images were hosted on the webserver from my previous ISP. Now I've hosted them here, so they should stay around a bit longer.
You can read the original thread with rebuttals, etc. here.
I've long argued that one thing that sets the Bronze Age apart was the early desire to have super-hero comics self-consciously "grow up" by pointing to something larger. So that's the backdrop for my defense of K