I like you included the Extreme Age from 1991 to 1998, most people just place the 90's as part of a Modern Age, but the 90's comics are really different from both 80's and post 2000 comics so I like having it separated on its own Age.
The science fiction template for gaining super powers was around since late thirties/early forties...with the MLJ heroes incl. the Comet, the Wizard, etc. Bronze age also saw the major publishers going back to the older characters like Captain Marvel, the Shadow, the Spirit, etc. Looking at the various ages I can say that my favorite is late Bronze Age, that is, early 80's.
True, but it was a far less refined version in the 40s, and they had other genres to play with. In the later 50s, the Comics Code limited which genres were useable and appealing, so sci-fi superhero genre got supercharged and more refined. Hence Golden Age flash and hard water inhalation vs lightning and chemical combination in Silver Age. The public responded to that.
You're right, I think it was more like the time and place were right and though Archie/MLJ did a lot of things first, DC was better known to the general public.
the bronze age also was looked upon as the beginning of "instantly valuable" comics. first issues of Conan, X-Men and other works were rendered valuable at an amazing price only weeks after their appearance.
Nice classification of comic ages. It was interesting to see that the 2nd World War had an impact on the type of heroes and villains created. Did the Vietnam War and September 11th have similar effects?
Children illustrated Encyclopedia Orbis Pictus 1658 by John Amos. 1744 Little Pretty Pocket book John Newberry an illustrated story book. Japanese had Kiboyishi illustrated story books in 1775 and by 1784 a record 92 titles were published. Santo Kyoden considered adult comic book in Japan 1798. According to information on Wikipedia can look there and other places for more info.
I like to refer to the 90's era as the Mylar age or the age of Speculation. Referring to the collectability being the most important aspect of the comics being produced at the time over qual th of work and entertainment value.
I would consider the end of the Silver Age to be the death of Gwen Stacy or the Green Lantern/Green Arrow team up (specially Speedy's drug problems and the debut of John Stewart)
Wow I never knew there were eight ages I always thought there was just four ages but now having watched this it make sense because some of it just felt a bit out of place and I feel like some of it should’ve been in its own ages so what I like to say is thank you to this good video and making me realising there was more to ages keep doing your videos my dude
This was super interesting and i was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a similar research presentation on the european comic world. Cus appart from knowing TinTin, lucky luke and asterix exist there seems to be very little categorization/and/or/timeline
Robert E. Howard wrote story about Conan the Barbarian "The phoenix of the sword" it appeared in Weird Tales Pulp magazine Dec.1932 cover date. He wrote 21 complete stories and some fragments of others about Conan before he died in 1936. 17 were published before he died. He also wrote story about a Red Sonya of Rotatino that fought soldiers of a Sultan in 1525 &1526 was unrelated to Conan stories that were in much more ancient time period. It appeared in Magic Carpet pulp magazine cover date Jan.1934 However Comic books had character with similar name Red Sonja first appear in Conan #23 cover dated Feb.1973 . Very loosely based on her. Conan movie in 1981 starring Arnold Swarzenegger and Sequel Conan The Destroyer (1983?) Red Sonja (1985) played by Brigette Nielson costarring Arnold Swarzenegger but as Kalidor a powerful and mysterious stranger similar to Conan.
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Good introduction, but there's no such book as The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. That DC maxi-series featuring a classic dystopian fable of Cold War paranoia was called simply Watchmen (1986 to 1987). The psychologically twisted group of retired crime fighters featured within the graphic novel was, however, called THE Minutemen.
The Golden Age: If we only had super heroes to make this world a better place? The Silver age: See how better this world is with super heroes! The Bronze age: You heroes think you made this world a better place but you forgot the black man, oh and your side kick is junkie. And way to go saving Gwen, you killed her anyway you moron! The Modern age: We heroes cannot die?....Oh my god Robin and Superman are dead! But they'll come back in a multi title cross over with variant covers right? Are we even heroes? What is a hero?
MAD was (hope it still is) a great way to motivate a kid to think If I didn't get the joke, I would research the storyline. Plus, I'm still impressed with Mort Drucker's parodies.
For me, there's three ages of comics: Golden Age (1935-1956/ New Fun #1-Showcase #3) Silver Age (1956-1970/ Showcase #4- Avengers #78) Modern Age (1970- Present/ Conan #1- ??)
It seems silly to me to focus so much on Blade just because it was Marvel's first big movie. What about the Tim Burton Batman films? What about Spawn? Heck, what about Dick Tracy?
It’s really about the mix of cgi with the perception of success. Technology of Blade was the next level and Spawn wasn’t the same success that Blade was. The previous ones had no cgi
Where is The Adventures of Obediah Oldbuck (1837)? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_M._Vieux_Bois I would consider Detective comics 225 (1st Martian Manhunter) 1955 as the start of the Silver Age not Showcase #4 as Martian Manhunter eventually co-founded The JLA GA/GL #76 is more the beginning of the Bronze Age than Conan #1 - as O'Neill/Adams brought a "realism" to comics that was missing in the S.A.
My favorite time for comic books and graphic novels was the time I grew up reading comics and liking super-hero characters, which was 1980 to 1994. The best point within that time period for me was 1986 to 1994. Comics before the year 1980 were just way too cheesy, corny and lame for my taste, and comics after 1994 just got boring. The art from the early '90s is my favorite, but the writing from the 1990s was cheeseball, cornball and lame ass. The writing from the 1980s was the best, especially from the late '80s.
