Silver Age of Comic Books

The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the period from 1956 to circa 1970, and was succeeded by the Bronze and Modern Ages. A number of important comics writers and artists contributed to the early part of the era, including writers Stan Lee, Gardner Fox, John Broome, and Robert Kanigher, and artists Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Steve Ditko, Mike Sekowsky, Gene Colan, Carmine Infantino, John Buscema, and John Romita, Sr. By the end of the Silver Age, a new generation of talent had entered the field, including writers Denny O'Neil, Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas, and Archie Goodwin, and artists such as Neal Adams, Herb Trimpe, Jim Steranko, and Barry Windsor-Smith.

The popularity and circulation of comic books about superheroes declined following World War II, and comic books about horror, crime and romance took larger shares of the market. However, controversy arose over alleged links between comic books and juvenile delinquency, focusing in particular on crime and horror titles. In 1954, publishers implemented the Comics Code Authority to regulate comic content. In the wake of these changes, publishers began introducing superhero stories again, a change that began with the introduction of a new version of DC Comics' The Flash in Showcase #4 (Oct. 1956). In response to strong demand, DC began publishing more superhero titles including Justice League of America, which prompted Marvel Comics to follow suit beginning with Fantastic Four #1. Silver Age comics have become collectible, with a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962), the debut of Spider-Man, selling for $1.1 million in 2011.

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.

Structure

Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance. Authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of comic books are necessary in conveying the content and messages of the author. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons (speech bubbles), text (lines), and characters. Balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction.

Silver age (disambiguation)

Silver age may refer to:

  • Silver age, name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age
  • Silver Age of Comic Books, period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books
  • Silver Age of Russian Poetry, traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first two decades of the 20th century
  • Silver Age (DC Comics), a twelve part storyline that ran through a series of one shot comic books published by DC Comics in 2000
  • Silver Age (album), a 2012 album by Bob Mould
  • Silver age, a b-side to the Pet Shop Boys' 1999 single I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
  • See also

  • Bronze Age (disambiguation)
  • Golden Age (disambiguation)
  • Silver Age (DC Comics)

    "Silver Age" was a twelve part storyline that ran through a series of one shot comic books published by DC Comics in 2000.

    Each of the 12 issues were a one-shot (feature issue #1 on the cover), however they formed a larger story-arc in which The Justice League of America fights the Injustice League formed by villain Agamemno.

    The art, dialogue, narrative style and even the format of the comics (larger page-counts, half-page advertisements, etc.) were deliberately anachronistic for the time of publication, thus the issues served as a tribute, and in some cases a gentle satire, to the books and creators of DC Comics during the Silver Age of Comic Books.

    Issues

    Note that all the issue titles were prefixed with "Silver Age," to distinguish them from the monthly series DC produced, even though only Flash and Green Lantern were in print at the time (though starring later incarnations of the heroes). The current Justice League book was then titled JLA and Teen Titans was being published as simply 'The Titans'.

    Silver Age (album)

    Silver Age is the tenth solo album from former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman Bob Mould. Mould was joined on bass by Jason Narducy and on drums by Superchunk's Jon Wurster.

    For the release of Silver Age, the trio embarked on a series of concerts where, in addition to material from the new album and a few Hüsker Dü songs, they played the entirety of Sugar's Copper Blue in order. Copper Blue was simultaneously released in a 20th anniversary edition.

    Track listing

    All tracks written by Bob Mould.

  • "Star Machine" - 3:25
  • "Silver Age" - 3:02
  • "The Descent" - 3:55
  • "Briefest Moment" - 3:18
  • "Steam of Hercules" - 4:17
  • "Fugue State" - 3:33
  • "Round The City Square" - 4:04
  • "Angels Rearrange" - 3:16
  • "Keep Believing" - 4:25
  • "First Time Joy" - 4:53
  • Personnel

  • Bob Mould - guitars, vocals, keyboards, producer
  • Jason Narducy - bass
  • Jon Wurster - drums
  • Beau Sorenson - engineer
  • Nathan Winter - assistant engineer
  • Jim Wilson - mastering
  • Nic Pope - assistant mix engineer
  • Maggie Frost - artwork
  • Shelly Mosman - portrait
  • Frank Riley - Booking Agents
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