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What Age Are We In Again??

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NinjaSealed

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1992-2001 Age of implosion. Started by X-Force/X-Men/Spawn #1, finishes with ASM starting new numbering/print run shrinking to crazy levels

 

2001-2010 Age of revival. Started by Amazing stories coming out such as Hush/Walking dead and countless other great stories that were written.

 

2010 to now Movie age/digital age/New age

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jaybes

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In a Dark Age, no matter what… :sick:

 

"Modern" means nothing, in this case. In 100 years it will no longer make sense to call it "Modern".

 

We are the in Post Modern Age...? (shrug)

This makes even less sense… :D

 

lol True! Just trying to contribute to the conversation!

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HarveySwick

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Atom Age. The period recognized by the industry as being between 1946, after the dropping of the Atomic bomb, and continuing until the start of the Silver Age, in 1956.

 

Golden Age. CGC Registry term for a period of comic book publishing that ran from Action Comics #1 (June 1938) through 1959.

 

Silver Age.* CGC Registry term for comics published 1960 through 1969.

 

Bronze Age. CGC Registry term for comics published 1970 through 1979.

 

Copper Age. CGC Registry term for comics published 1980 through 1989.

 

Modern Age.

 

Consolation Prize Age.

 

Everybody Gets a Trophy Age. (shrug)

 

:jokealert:

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Cimm

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1938-1945... Golden Age

1946-1955... Atom Age

1956-1967... Silver Age

1968-1979... Bronze Age

1980-1992... Copper Age

1993-2004... Chromium Age

2005-Future... Culmination Age

 

The above is mix and an approximation, on a macro scale... arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...

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Fan Boy

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1938-1945... Golden Age

1946-1955... Atom Age

1956-1967... Silver Age

1968-1979... Bronze Age

1980-1992... Copper Age

1993-2004... Chromium Age

2005-Future... Culmination Age

 

The above is mix and an approximation, on a macro scale... arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...

 

Not bad... I rather kind of like this. the Silver Age has the right years with the new Flash's 1st appearance in begin to 1967 when many superheroes taken hold to conitune to today. The Chromium Age is about right - I do remember so many comics featured chromium front covers then.

 

Myself - I disagree with Modern Age having 3 deacdes. Not fair when the previous Ages had approx 10-years (Golden Age had 20 years)? The CGC group need to re-look in again. :P

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CKB

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The Questions hm

 

(1) If you named the era from 1990 through 1999, what would you name it?

 

(2) If you named the era from 2000 through 2009, what would you name it?

 

(3) Do you consider Silver Age books to start at another time, pre-1960 (thinking 1954)?

 

 

(1) The Pyrite Age or The Chromium Age

 

(2) The Video Age

 

(3) I've always been a "gold ends / silver begins at the start of the CCA" kind of guy. So that's 1954. I don't begrudge those that insert the Atom Age in there, though.

 

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shadroch

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We are in the Modern Age.

When I started collecting in the early 1970s, we had Golden Age, Silver Age and Modern. By the time I opened my store, those old Modern books were Bronze Age, and only more recent books were considered to be Modern. Books that are only a few years old will always be Modern, no matter how many ages came before them.

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Cimm

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1968-1979... Bronze Age

 

so the 1968 Series Starters (Hulk 102 / Cap100 / Iron Man 1/ Subby 1 etc) are all BA ? hm

 

 

No... but, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.is, as are House of Mystery 174 on, House of Secrets 81 on, Unexpected 105 on...

 

arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...
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Gotham Kid

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1968-1979... Bronze Age

 

so the 1968 Series Starters (Hulk 102 / Cap100 / Iron Man 1/ Subby 1 etc) are all BA ? hm

 

 

No... but, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.is, as are House of Mystery 174 on, House of Secrets 81 on, Unexpected 105 on...

 

arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...

 

CGC considers Nick Fury #1 a 1968 Series Starter.

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Mister O

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Most of the ages currently used are metallurgical ages with the only exception of Atom Age. If the metallurgical age was still used then the next logical name for the 1993 - 2004 period would be Iron Age.

 

Anything from 2005 to present would move the Modern Age up to this period, until the next age is defined for this period.

 

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AGGIEZ

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1938-1945... Golden Age

1946-1955... Atom Age

1956-1967... Silver Age

1968-1979... Bronze Age

1980-1992... Copper Age

1993-2004... Chromium Age

2005-Future... Culmination Age

 

:golfclap:

 

I like this...but wouldn't the "Culmination Age" be the Modern Age...atleast for now.

 

And what is 'culminating'?

 

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Cimm

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1968-1979... Bronze Age

 

so the 1968 Series Starters (Hulk 102 / Cap100 / Iron Man 1/ Subby 1 etc) are all BA ? hm

 

 

No... but, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.is, as are House of Mystery 174 on, House of Secrets 81 on, Unexpected 105 on...

 

arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...

 

CGC considers Nick Fury #1 a 1968 Series Starter.

 

Probably because it started in 1968? :makepoint:

 

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Cimm

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1938-1945... Golden Age

1946-1955... Atom Age

1956-1967... Silver Age

1968-1979... Bronze Age

1980-1992... Copper Age

1993-2004... Chromium Age

2005-Future... Culmination Age

 

:golfclap:

 

I like this...but wouldn't the "Culmination Age" be the Modern Age...atleast for now.

 

And what is 'cuminating'?

 

 

 

cul·mi·nate [kuhl-muh-neyt]

verb (used without object)

2.

to end or arrive at a final stage (usually followed by in ): The argument Comics culminated in a fistfight the early part of the 21st Century.

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Gotham Kid

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1968-1979... Bronze Age

 

so the 1968 Series Starters (Hulk 102 / Cap100 / Iron Man 1/ Subby 1 etc) are all BA ? hm

 

 

No... but, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.is, as are House of Mystery 174 on, House of Secrets 81 on, Unexpected 105 on...

 

arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...

 

CGC considers Nick Fury #1 a 1968 Series Starter.

 

Probably because it started in 1968? :makepoint:

 

and because of that, they consider it SA. Same goes for Silver Surfer, Mighty Marvel Western, Captain Savage etc ...

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Cimm

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1968-1979... Bronze Age

 

so the 1968 Series Starters (Hulk 102 / Cap100 / Iron Man 1/ Subby 1 etc) are all BA ? hm

 

 

No... but, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.is, as are House of Mystery 174 on, House of Secrets 81 on, Unexpected 105 on...

 

arbitrary ages make no sense, on the micro, as each storyline, hero and title enters and leaves the containing "age" at its own pace...

 

CGC considers Nick Fury #1 a 1968 Series Starter.

 

Probably because it started in 1968? :makepoint:

 

 

and because of that, they consider it SA. Same goes for Silver Surfer, Mighty Marvel Western, Captain Savage etc ...

 

Well, I really can't speak to those series, as I've never had enough interest to read them... but, Nick Fury, I have read, from Strange Tales 135 on, and the #1 in 1968 clearly took on some clarity and direction that was previously lacking, and started to develop relevance... which was a hallmark of Bronze Age.

 

I guess you'd really disagree with me on Creepy #1, huh? :baiting:

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