Talk:Golden Age of Comic Books

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message: This article, about an important period in the history of American comic books, starts out with a strong intro, and then just meanders with received wisdom and no concrete references. It's too significant a topic to leave fallow. Most of the scholarship on the Golden Age of Comics probably appears in books rather than websites, judging from a quick Google search. Many of my books are in storage; a few are not. I'd like to ask my fellow editors to dig out their own and help bring this important article up to speed. With thanks, --Tenebrae (talk) 15:36, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article collaboration

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thread_title: C-Class rated for Comics Project

message: This article is important to the project so we need to push it on to a B and beyond. If you have any good sources (that you aren't going to add now) then drop them in here and someone will look them over and see what they can do.
For starters:
*  CNN news report on an exhibition about Golden Age Comics.
As I find more I'll add it in. Once we get it to B I'll do a more intensive search and dump the resources here so we can push on to a GA. (Emperor (talk) 22:19, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: None of the five ostensible citations that the period between the Golden Age and the Silver Age was called the Atomic Age hold up.
Aside from the fact that no contemporaneous sources use that term -- whereas comics themselves referred to the Golden Age and the Silver Age, for example, no comics sources in the surrounding eras use the term "Atomic Age of Comics" -- these five cites fall short:
* The National Association of Comics Art Educators is a dead link to a redlink organization that seems to have been composed primarily of its founder.
*Archives Hub: "Comic Book Collection", University of the Arts. UK refers to "Atomic Age" of comics in the same breath it refers to the "Marvel Age of Comics", which is a marketing term and not a historical era, severely undermining this source's credibility as a comics authority.
* Comic Book Predigrees is an amateur site devoted to the comic-book retailing trade, designed to help sell "pedigreed" collections, and not the work of recognized scholars or historians.
* Christopher, Tom, "Atomic Age Comics", TomChristopher.com, is just a letter-to-the-editor — one fan's opinion; and re:
* Overstreet, Robert M. Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 38th Edition (New York: 2008) p. 1026: While I can't at the moment find my copy of Overstreet, this by itself isn't definitive -- who in Overstreet is making this claim? Is it a scholar or historian, or someone involved in marketing and retail, for whom a trendy name (as real-estate people give to neighborhoods) is a way to help sell something and has nothing to do with scholarly or academic analysis.
The bottom line is that to in essence create a whole new era, the bar is set very high in terms of documentation and widespread general agreement among the field's scholars and historians. That consensus widely exists for Golden Age and Silver Age. A few scattered mentions by questionable or non-reliable sources is hardly enough documentation to stake a claim for a brand new era. --Tenebrae (talk) 03:21, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A single price guide using a term that lacks objective provenance in books and professional articles by comics historians isn't really definitive enough to use as the foundation of an encyclopedic claim. The term "Atomic Age of Comics" is not in any sort of standard use like "Golden Age," "Silver Age" and"Bronze Age." --Tenebrae (talk) 15:05, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-RS for "Atomic Age of Comics" claim

message: The article makes an offhand remark to the effect that Superman fought Atom-Man in the TV series.  Having seen every episode of Adventures of Superman, I for one recall no such villain.  Atom-Man appeared in the second Superman movie serial, not the TV show.  I am going to go ahead and make this edit, but if someone has a source that contradicts my recollection, please let me know. 71.77.52.3 (talk) 07:58, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure why, but ClueBot reverted that edit.  Could someone with a user account make that edit for me?  I'm quite certain it is accurate.  Thanks.  71.77.52.3 (talk) 08:12, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't ClueBot that reverted it, it was me. However, having read your comment above I have restored the edit. With no explanation the edit looked like vandalism. It is always a good idea to give an edit summary to indicate what you are doing. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:16, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superman and Atom Man 

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message: I really like that the article begins with the text "The first recorded use of the term "Golden Age" was by Richard A. Lupoff in an article, "Re-Birth", published in issue one of the fanzine Comic Art in April 1960.". It would be even better if this section could actually quote the relevant passage from this article, to show what Lupoff himself meant by this term he introduced, and some of the context. I just looked for the article myself online, and could not find it, only dozens of other articles making the same citation. Perhaps someone needs to find an original hardcopy to transcribe Lupoff's own words?
(EDI: I found it! here it is, but its a scan)
on a similar note, I see the opening paragraph boldly defines the Golden Age as "an era of American comic books from 1938 to 1956", despite all the debate on this page arguing there is no consensus. Perhaps it would be better to state that the end date is subject to debate, some say 1956, some say end of WWII, some say last issue of All Star Comics, and give citations to each of the alternate claims? The controversy over the end date, and the very notion of "Ages", would be relevant content for the article.
J Edward Malone (talk) 18:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  etymology section 

message: Despite being called the golden Age of Comic Books, it almost exclusively covers DC Comics. It would be more indicative of the era if we included more characters from that time period. Saxumwasbased (talk) 00:27, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of Comics not published by D.C in this article