Comic Confessions

[Jeppe]

I'll do you one better. I don't even know what the fuck the eras are anymore. 

The eras seem to enjoy using Marvel Comics sliding timeline.

 
That was actually why I went back and edited my post to include Bronze Age comics as well, since I often have a hard time distinguishing between the two!

[David]

The eras seem to enjoy using Marvel Comics sliding timeline.

Pretty sure there's never been much of an argument as to when the Silver Age (Showcase #4) started.  The Bronze Age may not have an exact issue, but it's 1970-ish.  And runs until the mid-80s with Crisis on Infinite Earths and Secret Wars.

[Jeppe]

Pretty sure there's never been much of an argument as to when the Silver Age (Showcase #4) started.  The Bronze Age may not have an exact issue, but it's 1970-ish.  And runs until the mid-80s with Crisis on Infinite Earths and Secret Wars.

This is where my main confusion lies. I get the overall chronology, which begins the Silver Age in 1956 and ends the Bronze Age in 1985, but the early to mid-1970s are very fuzzy for me. This is of coure mainly due to my own ignorance and lack of experience with the comics of the time. I'm a whelp 

[BillyZ]

The Bronze Age may not have an exact issue, but it's 1970-ish. 

I have always thought Green Lantern #76 was a good reference point for when the Bronze Age probably started.

[David]

I have always thought Green Lantern #76 was a good reference point for when the Bronze Age probably started.

 

That works, since it's early 1970.

[Steve Raker]

I have always thought Green Lantern #76 was a good reference point for when the Bronze Age probably started.

Some say it's Conan the barbarian #1 that marks its start

[PozrDu]

Some say it's Conan the barbarian #1 that marks its start

I feel like Giant Sized X-Men #1 marks Bronze for Marvel,
but DC clung to Silver (or at least Silver-style) longer.
Is the 1st appearance of the New Teen Titans a good marker?

[BillyZ]

I feel like Giant Sized X-Men #1 marks Bronze for Marvel,
but DC clung to Silver (or at least Silver-style) longer.
Is the 1st appearance of the New Teen Titans a good marker?

I think the one-two punch of Kirby leaving Marvel and Conan#1 really provide the start of Marvel's Bronze.  Also, so much high quality work in Marvel horror's line predates Giant-Size X-Men#1 and I would never consider those books as part of the silver age.

And though I agree that DC held onto Silver customs far, far longer, New Teen Titans is just too late in the game.  That provides less than a five year span between that debut and Crisis.  Plus, I will always think of the Fourth World as a Bronze Age creation and that has to be factored in.

[slurmo]

Pretty sure there's never been much of an argument as to when the Silver Age (Showcase #4) started.   The Bronze Age may not have an exact issue, but it's 1970-ish.  And runs until the mid-80s with Crisis on Infinite Earths and Secret Wars.

Ah, yeah. I'm a dope today how could I forget? 

It's the bronze that's tricky for me and when people try to create new names for eras in the 80's, 90's etc.

I'ma bbig dummy when it comes to these things

[Andrew Tom]

Some say it's Conan the barbarian #1 that marks its start

This was always my understanding as well. 

[krelyan]

I've never read any incarnation of a Big Two team book that I thought was truly exceptional.  Read nearly all of the 90's JLA (and to double my shame, I feel Morrison's work, as a whole on the book (with the exception of the Quitely OGN), was just slightly below Waid's and Kelly's runs), old Justice League team-up issues in the Multiple Crises trades, the new Justice League series, Morrison's X-men and Dark Phoenix Saga, and Wolfman's Teen Titans.  None rose above "that was pretty good" to me.  I should probably just admit defeat at this point.

[slurmo]

Shhh don't tell anyone.

The whole "omactivate" thing? I don't dig it. I didn't think it was that cool. I do like the book though.

Please send all death threats, bluewater comics, and flaming bags of poo to:

slurmo
PO Box 3322
City of Industry, CA 91744

[PozrDu]

Shhh don't tell anyone.

The whole "omactivate" thing? I don't dig it. I didn't think it was that cool. I do like the book though.

Can't you see it though being used as a 70's-80's era cartoon adaptation?

[valance_the_hunter]

I enjoy reading Nightwing each month.  There…I said it.

[Jay Tomio - Part Deux]

GSX is way too late. I've always argued Conan #1, but if one wants to point to the superhero line specifically, an argument could be made for ASM #121. Spidey was the flagship and within a year you'd have the Death of Gwen Stacy and the intro of the Punisher, who I'd agree is post-Conan sensibility.

[legion of daves]

i still haven't finished strangers in paradise.

[Andrew Tom]

i still haven't finished strangers in paradise.

You're not alone.  I started the first trade a year ago, and never finished it.  (not for me) 

[slurmo]

You're not alone.  I started the first trade a year ago, and never finished it.  (not for me) 

i still haven't finished strangers in paradise.

Hell, I don't even own any of it  and that's the way it is going to stay.

NOT FOR ME.

[David]

NOT FOR ME.

How much of it have you read?

[legion of daves]

i actually love strangers in paradise, i just still haven't bought the last book.