See which comic books i pull out of ebay mystery boxes. This age was more ambiguous, but there were certain. I think i was the only one as everyone said it should be events that happened in comic stories like the gold, silver and bronze age was defined. The newsprint used for most comic books has been bleached with acid prior to printing. Jan 30, 2019 this post looks at the silver and bronze ages of detective comics and tries to highlight key issues such as first appearances and classic covers during this time. Contentsshow platinum age 18421938 american comic books predate the appearance of superheroes by nearly a century.
Origin following from the silver age of comics, the term bronzeage was first used by comic fans and then the overstreet price guide to refer to the more mature comics of the early seventies to the. It also marked a turn towards darker and grittier comic worlds. Some argue that the later years of the bronze age overlap with the very early years of the modern age. Scott runs you through a brief history of comic books to dive into what makes the golden age, silver age, bronze age, and modern age so important to how comics and the industry are today. Comic ages timeline i grew up accepting the traditional gospel that the superhero genre dictated the ages, but lately ive been leaning towards classifying the ages based on the inception and subsequent changes to the comic code authority. Although the majority of books from the period are worth relatively little these days, there are a handful of key titles featuring the debut of important characters, or famous story arcs that can still bring impressive prices at auction. The silver age of comic books was followed by the bronze age. Other genres like horror became widespread during this period, beginning the transition to the current tone and trends in comic books. Given that the golden, silver, and bronze age were all. Each age has had its own good and bad qualities, its classics and its trash. Parkers records and comics features an extensive inventory of golden age, silver age, bronze age, and collectible comic books that include classic comic book publishers like dell comics, marvel comics, dc comics, archie comics. Sources differ on when the bronze age of comic books started and the silver age ended. Comic books with a number as its title are alphabetized by the way the name is pronounced.
The bronze age of comic books is an informal name for a period in the history of american superhero comic books usually said to run from 1970 to 1984. The bronze age was also the era when the fad super became most prominent. All comic books for sale are listed alphabetically by the first letter of the comic book s name. Mar 29, 2019 how to size your comic books for proper storage. The bronze age retained many of the conventions of the silver age, with traditional superhero titles. Historian will jacobs suggests the silver age ended in april 1970 when the man who had started it, julius schwartz, handed over green lantern starring one of the first revived heroes of the era to the newguard team of denny oneil and neal. The bronze age of comic books useful notes tv tropes. Heres the second video in our series explaining the different ages in comic books, this time we explain the silver age of comics. Top 100 covers of the bronze age 19711985 comic vine.
The bronze age unlike the golden and silver ages, no gap period between the end of the silver age and the start of the bronze age exists. Platinum age 18971937, golden age 19381947, atomic age 19481955, silver age 19561969, bronze age 19701984, dark or copper age 19851991, extreme age 19921998, movie age 1998 2016. Age of bronze comics homepage the story of the trojan war. Both series exemplify the combination of issuedriven plots and comic book wildness for which the era is known. Oct 06, 2016 this ends my introduction to the comic book ages. Fans use these ages to categorize the different eras of comic books based on times in history that share concerns, storytellings, techniques, marketing strategies, styles of writing and art, and approach genre conventions. Now, superheroes needed a reason to be superheroes, stated tv screenwriter james grant goldin in the 2003 documentary comic book superheroes. Bronze age comic books cgc graded bronze age comics da.
Why your bronze age comics collection aint worth squat. Also popular are the mystery and horror comics from this era. The bronze age continued until 1985 when we have the birth of the copper or dark age. Following from the silver age of comics, the term bronze age was first used by comic fans and then the overstreet price guide to refer to the more mature comics of the early seventies to.
Each age has had its own good and bad qualities, its. It follows the silver age of comic books, and is followed by the modern age of comic books. That being said, the intent of the discussion is on comic book ages and wondering what the next officially recognized period will be. The modern age of comic books is a period in the history of american superhero comic books which is generally considered to have begun in the mid1980s. Bronze age saw a continuation of the popular characters but with a return to darker plots regarding reallife issues. Jan 29, 2003 a good graded golden age book will fetch far more at auction than a mint silver age book in most cases.
Comics are not dead and neither are bronze age books, the market is great for those who participate. Thus, the relatively fuzziness of the end of the silver age leaves us with a fuzzy start to the bronze age, probably around 1970. Jun 11, 2014 scott runs you through a brief history of comic books to dive into what makes the golden age, silver age, bronze age, and modern age so important to how comics and the industry are today. Top 100 covers of the bronze age 19711985 by krakoa october 2, 2010 6 comments the bronze age was a period of transition when comics were bringing in money. Readers no long responded to simplistically rendered, altruistic dogooders as exemplified in the stories of earlier superheroes.
If you are not already intheknow about the difference between newsstand and direct edition comics see the following as this distinction is critical information any collector must know when approaching the bronze age and key bronze age comics where the distinction exists. For example, wikipedia has entries for the golden, silver, bronze and modern ages of comics. Dec 06, 2017 see which key issues comics i add to my comic book collection. The period was marked with complex stories that had more realistic character conflicts, as well as some moral ambiguity. Even character dialogue showed slang and colloquialisms of the time. I imagine most people say this age runs until 1986, a watershed year in comics. These are the most actively sold comic books in the marketplace graded by cgc or cbcs. The names are the golden, silver, bronze, iron, and the modern age.
We maintain a wide selection of golden age, silver age, and bronze age comics and collectibles. Oct 26, 2015 i stated that i thought it should start with either contest of champions marvels first limited series that has most of the characters all together in a comic book limited series and a precursor to secret wars or secret wars marvels first hit limited series and thought it should end with the comic book market crash in the early to mid 90s. Top 50 most valuable comic books of the bronze age. The bronze age is thus known for the first attempts to bring realism and adult issues to super hero comic books, themes which would later overtake the genre entirely in the dark age of comic books. So for me the split between the silver age and the bronze age is when the code was revised in 1971. Bronze age of comic books 19701984 the silver age of comic books was a period of artistic advancement and widespread commercial success in mainstream american comic books, predominantly those featuring the superhero archetype. Mar 02, 2016 as you can see, comic books have gone through a clear evolutionary path to get us to where we are today. Well, im a bit shocked that so many years later i come across this link and find i was fairly close to what this site thinks. Welcome to cbh, today were talking about the 8 ages of comic books including the. New listing lot of 34 kitchen sink will eisner spirit comic books 148 1980s adult mature j. Here are the four major ages for comic books in chronological order.
See american comic books comics are generally divided into ages. To mitigate this deterioration, the comic book backing boards are coated with calcium carbonate so that they absorb the acid that migrates from the book. Golden age 19381956 silver age 19561970 bronze age 19701985 modern age 1985present the modern age of comics. These eras include the golden age 19381950, the silver age 19561970, the bronze age 19701985, and the modern age 1985present. Epic comic book collection garage sale haul silver. View thousands of scanned comic books in the feature gallery, or search metropolis entire comic inventory with. Dale roberts comics buys and sells comic books from the 1930s current. The super hero genre is bestknown in the medium of american comic books. According to cool and collecteds definition of the bronze age, it spanned the years from 1970 to 1984 using the overstreet comic book price guide as its reference. This is when the approved content changed in mainstream comics.
In that year, dc swept away the vestiges of the silver bronze ages with crisis on infinite earths, frank miller redefined batman with the dark knight returns, and alan moore and dave gibbons did watchmen. Posted on january 31, 2014 by copperchrome under comics, dc, image, marvel. Platinum age 18971937, golden age 19381947, atomic age 19481955, silver age 19561969, bronze age 19701984, dark or copper age 19851991, extreme age. Comic strips 15001650 pioneer age 16501800 victorian age 18001938 platinum age comic books. Remember, these are generalizations since there are a lot of comics made during these ages that have nothing to do with superheroes or movies, etc, but once we define the golden and silver ages by flavor of specific superheroes, then that starts to define the other ages. The 8 ages of comic books by alex grand comic book. The four ages of comics including silver age dc comics for sale. Comics historians divide the history of american comic books into ages.
Jan 31, 2014 the death of superman was one of the rare comic book events that actually become a pop culture phenomenon. Bronze age of comic books hey kids comics wiki fandom. Sparkle city comics is most interested in purchasing comic books pre1985, so if youre interested in selling your golden age, silver age or bronze age comics, give us a call at 8007439205. On learning that helen has left sparta with paris, kastor and polydeukes set out to bring her back. Because of this, comic books are generally categorized into different ages based on when they were published. Gold, silver and bronze ages for dc comics science fiction. Here are the key issues to look for when youre at garage sales yes, they do turn up. Top 50 most valuable comic books from the bronze age. Officially recognized 19381950 golden age 19501970 silver age 19701986 bronze age proposed ages from. Good to very good is the condition of the comic book by marvel comics. Rarity increases the further back in the ages you go.
May 02, 2017 the bronze age of comic books posted may 2, 2017 mguitmann prior to the bronze age, in the silver age of comics we saw comic book publishers reintroduce fan favorite characters after a decline in the popularity of comic books after wwii. Im still a little leary of continuing to post full issues of things from the bronze age, having come close to being legally burned a couple of times, and i have actually had thoughts of combining the two blogs in some way great news next week, chums. Get the best deals on bronze age thor comics when you shop the largest online selection at. The ages discussed in this node refer directly to north american comic book publishers, as different worldwide comic book publishing industries experienced different defining eras. Bronze age comic books the bronze age extends from 1970 to about 1980, which includes comics priced at 15. The demarcation is not clearly defined, but there are a number of possibilities. Some of the acid from the bleach remains in the paper. Most popular bronze age comic books these are the most actively sold comic books in the marketplace graded by cgc or cbcs. Age of bronze, the continuing graphic novel series by eisner awardwinning cartoonist eric shanower, presents the complete story of the worldfamous war at troy, freshly retold for the 21st century. With soti and the creation of the cca the golden age came to a halt. Get the best deals on other bronze age comics when you shop the largest online selection at. At first they were simply reprints of previously published newspaper strips such as the. An important factor in determining the value of a comic book is the age of the book itself.
The ages are related to comic book grades in that they help determine the relative price based on the period that they represent as well as the age of the book. Oh and lastly dc and marvel have put out some pretty good products in the last couple years, i know you naysayers are gonna hate this but they have increased in valueomg i said itsorry. Although the hobby of collecting comic books is not quite as old, it has spawned an industry of providing collectors. This was the era of superheroes who fought crime using football, transport trucks. The bronze and modern age are riddled modern day issues and take the reader through social issues in the strips. The early 1980s were a time of transition for the comics industry. The following bronze age featured good stories with shades of social commentary tackling issues of the day.
These events tended to wipe the slate clean and signal that comics had grown up. This is the third article in our series, following from most valuable golden age comics and most valuable silver age comics. Bronze age comic books cgc comic book collectors chat boards. Comic books published between 1970 to 1985 belong to the bronze age of comics. Similar to the digital comic museum, which we wrote about last week, comic book plus contains a near inexhaustible quantity of golden and silver age comic books. Comic books with a number as its title are alphabetized.
One of the single best comic stories of the bronze age. People do mention the golden age, the silver age, the bronze age, and the modern age. Browse listings in comic books bronze age 1970 83 47444 listings found. This is an original issue and is not a reproduced copy. Its got a great battle, tragedy, killer art from mike golden, and a first appearance of what would become a pretty major character. When did the bronze age of comic books begin and end. The following books have all been affected by the gold rush of those days. Discounts offered on multiple comic book purchases plus discount, 20 plus discount, etc.
The modern age of comics generally starts in 1985 as the bronze age wraps up. Silver age 1956 1970 bronze age 1970 1985 modern age 1985 present day. The bronze age of comic books ran from around 1970 to 1985, and featured darker plots along with relevant realworld issues. If you were to believe the people who wrote entries for certain publications, you would think that the bronze age was a made up era invented by comics. But even there, its fortunes have gone up and down, and this has influenced the perception of superheroes in general. The list of the most valuable bronze age comic books. According to the online encyclopedia the modern age begins in 1985 30 years ago. The collections timespan ranges from the late 1930s through to the early 1960s, and includes many thousands of comic books in the superhero, scifi, and horror genres. Comic book dealers recommendations metropolis comics. So, the xmen comic books are listed under x and the outer limits is listed under o.
All the drama of the ancient and thrilling tradition unfolds before your eyes, with all the familiar people and events of the trojan war. The most commonly used of these are golden, silver, and bronze though some people add the terms platinum and iron age. Epic comic book collection haul bronze age ebay mystery box. The bronze age of comic books is an informal name for a period in the history of mainstream american comic books usually said to run from 1970 to 1985. Some bronze age key issues have lost 50 percent or more in cgc 9. Scott runs you through a brief history of comic books to dive into what makes the golden age, silver age, bronze age, and modern age so. Bronze age comics b alphabetical order rules all comic books for sale are listed alphabetically by the first letter of the comic books name. The only thing that detracts from it is the awful milgrom cover.
This timeline presents milestones, trends, and pivotal events that defined the comics medium during each of these eras. Sold by greenowldepot and ships from amazon fulfillment. If you were to believe the people who wrote entries for certain publications, you would think that the bronze age was a made up era invented by comics retailers. You will want to store them away from sunlight and. Jul 17, 2016 the ages of comic books explained people do mention the golden age, the silver age, the bronze age, and the modern age.
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