I know Captain America, Thor and Iron Man are considered "Golden Ages" hold overs from Marvel...who would qualify as Silver Age?
Where would characters like Storm or Ms. Marvel fit into that?
It seems like DC has a better distinction than Marvel (and yet Marvel gets all the attention.)
For Marvel's silver-age, it would be Spider-Man and the FF along with any others created in the 60s.
Otherwise................ Marvel's silver-age, that could best be called the Atlas age as that was what they were calling themselves from around 1946/47ish to about the launch of the Fantastic Four in 1963. They really didn't create any new hero characters, that I can recall or know of, but they did use their more popular ones in a short early 50s revival.
I think that for applying "ages" to either DC or Timely/Atlas/Marvel....it's a different thing for each. DC can be broken into four ages in a rough way. The golden-age that covers from the start to about 1957(?) and the launch of The Flash, Barry Allen version. The silver-age which covers from then to about 1985 and the Crisis On Infinite Earths. The bronze age (yeech, I hate that name for comics, but it does fit) which cover from then until recently with the Infinite Crisis and 52. The breaks are basically when a wide spread change in continuity came about. BUT, you can also break the golden-age and the silver-age at the time of the last appearance of the JSA in 1952 in All-Star Comics. Captain Comet has long be considered a par of the silver-age though predating Barry Allen.
Timely/Atlas/Marvel....well there are the name changes that showed that they had changed direction in publishing genres. Timely covered every thing as any good pre WW2/WW2 comic company. But they also saw that the main genre, super-heroes were dying and dropped the name and went for the more "urban" genres followed by radioactive monsters by the 50s for their focus. But then became Marvel when re-donning the folks in tights approach. At this point, it's literal each decade is best described as an age or era. the 60s had their style as did the 70s in relation and then the 80s were still different.
Marvel gets the attention mostly due to great marketing and for experimenting more then DC tends to. Also, their marketing created the vile Marvel Zombie, that thing that haunts LCSes and internet forums.
I could go on with some other personal notes, but I probably made many go glass eyed with all that. Plus, I gotta go beddy-bye.
See ya tomorrow! :heee:
