NOTE FROM DAVE:

I ran across a fascinating article on the various
“ages” of comic books. Apparently certain terms
such “Golden Age” and “Silver Age” are not, for
serious literary studies of the genre, accurate
delineators of the various trends in comicdom.
This article is a discussion of how to properly
assign dates and names to “ages” of comics.

The Top 10 Rejected
Ages of Comic Books

10> The Logan Age: A period marked by an infinite number of

Wolverine guest appearances in an infinite number of issues.

9> The Old Age of Comics: When Superman started wearing his red shorts hiked up to his armpits and spent most of his adventures yelling at seals to get off the Fortress’s lawn.

8> The Act-Your Age: The period between 20 and 30 when you give in to your girlfriend and Stop Spending So Much Money on Those Damned Things.

7> The Ultimate Age: When retelling the same stories from 40 years ago is OK.

6> The Polybag Age: The time when the collector realizes that his comics might be worth something someday.

5> The Cobweb Age: The long period between the start of a new Image title and the actual release date of the second issue.

4> The Hostess Age: A period denoted by the inability of villains to resist tasty fruit pies tossed at them by heroes.

3> The Space Wars Age: The time where the Aliens or the Predators fight damn near everyone except Archie and Little Lotta.

2> The Super Prismatic Glow-in-the-Dark Mylar Embossed Foil Age: The time when one comic was released per month, but with 127 different variant covers.

and the Number 1 Rejected Age of Comic Books…

1> The Stan Lee Age: A period in which a very talented young man created some of the most memorable characters in comic bo– (Per court order, 10% of this list item has been paid directly to Mr. Lee.)

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Credits:

Selected from 53 submissions from 21 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Steven Wilber, Pomeroy, WA — 1 (1st #1!)
Dave Hill, Centennial, CO — 2, 8
Marc Berard, Central Falls, RI — 2, 5
Matt Hurlburt, Stow, OH — 2
Steve Theberge, Plaistow, NH — 2, 7
Guy Payne, Birmingham, AL — 3
Douglas Ward, Harrisburg, PA — 4, 10
Craig Israel, Cleveland, OH — 6
Jeremy Bleichman, Fair Lawn, NJ — 9
Dave Goudsward, Lake Worth, FL — Second Age of Childhood