I don't know that many people who use Bronze Age as a term.
I think eBay might.
You know, my big sister could really beat the crap out of her. I mean, really really.
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P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2004 11:12:59 am PDT #4937 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2004 11:16:21 am PDT #4938 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So what would the line of comics that came after Miller's Dark Knight be considered? Are they Bronze Age or Titanium or just, oooooh dark and nifty?
"Copper"
Yeah, I don't get it either.
If it's post-Clinton, it's "modern."
Note, these distinctions are usually only seen at places attempting to sell you stuff. Well, bronze is kinda-sorta used. Kinda.
But the main distinctions I see out there are Golden Age/Silver Age/Modern Age.
askye - Jul 20, 2004 11:17:26 am PDT #4939 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Ebay uses: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Modern.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 20, 2004 11:18:12 am PDT #4940 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
This period is when comics were at their height of popularity. I think Superman was churning out a million issues or something ridiculous. It was a lot - much more than today.
Captain Marvel was actually the blue medal winner of the Golden Age—that title sometimes sold in excess of 2,000,000 copies during WWII. It held the record for single issue sales until the speculator frenzy of the 90s and that Todd McFarlane Spider-Man #1 with a bazillion cover variants. However, the character faded into obscurity during the Silver Age and was only returned to a certain level of prominence once DC acquired the rights.
amych - Jul 20, 2004 11:18:54 am PDT #4941 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hec, what's your memory of when direct market sales really got to be the thing? I remember getting my mid-late 70s WW's at the drugstore or the supermarket, and my first real comics store experiences in the mid-80s. Somewhere in between, the racks in the drugstores disappeared, but I'm blanking on just when that happened.
(And curiously, this isn't the first think I've had today on mass market vs. direct market sales and changes in comics marketing.)
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2004 11:19:54 am PDT #4942 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So comics right now are....? Modern Age? Copper? Admantium seems appropos.
Kalshane - Jul 20, 2004 11:20:05 am PDT #4943 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Thanks for all the info, everyone.
first the black and white crash by Teenage Mutant Ninja imitators - there were fourteen at one point.
Which inspired the first few Boris the Bear comics, among other things.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2004 11:24:03 am PDT #4944 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So what would be Platinum Age? Would that be those original, from-the-era collections of newspaper comics, like Little Nemo, Krazy Kat and the like, that were the forerunner of comics?
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2004 11:26:07 am PDT #4945 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So what would be Platinum Age? Would that be those original, from-the-era collections of newspaper comics, like Little Nemo, Krazy Kat and the like, that were the forerunner of comics?
Tijuana Bibles?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2004 11:27:10 am PDT #4946 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Tijuana Bibles?
Heh.