Marvelman Part One: Behold The Superman

[rev sully]

sorry about the all Caps...I'm at the Pub with a Reuben & a Pint o'Guinness and I cut & pasted the Article name.

Firstly, great article Tim. Keep 'em coming, please.

Unnn...I don't want to splinter off too quickly but I read the Top 4 From each Era and I commend the pick of Ellis' StormWatch. Huzzah! Yes. I concur. Agree completely...what an amazing run. I bought the 5 trades around the time WildStorm was awesome. I ended up losing them in a move! I need to make my own and share them.

For a long time, I've been in a complete fog about the Ages of Eras. I believe what Grant said in the Flash in the 90s "every twenty years or so" (recently reprinted in TPB iBelieve but iDigress...^_~). I hate the cut & paste but I'm a fan of another page, Comics 101 and he's in the vernacular of my people, "Wickid Pissah". He answers questions and it's a great site. But I sent him an email just two weeks ago with a question for the Professor...
my ages & their definition...it still alludes me but I gotta trust Broadstreet's, right?
but I wrote this once and I think I can ask you the same thing without the naivete. I thought I grew up in the Silver Age...the Age of the SuperFriends. OK...let 'er rip.

Eric O'Sullivan to Scott

Dear Prof. Tipton,

I have an actually, factual need of clarification kinda question for the Professor.
Is there a consensus on the End of the Silver Age?
What is your definition of the Silver Age and it's ending?

I've RTFM'd the term and FYI I was born in '72. Honestly Scott, I thought I grew up in the Silver Age and I also bristle at the term Bronze Age. I looked on Wikipedia...I can accept that the Broadsteet's Guide as an Arbiter of Ages, in a way...a judge of standards. But I always felt as though the Silver Age extended basically into the early 80s. The Golden Age has succinct definition on when it starts & end, and then there's 1956 nonetheless further Ages start to get muddled on their borders as we go down the timeline...what is opinion, what is definition?
I made a point in an article on my Blog, Channel OCHO
http://thechannelocho.blogspot.com/2...00935304886671
In an article anticipating the BLACKEST NIGHT event, I want to posit that FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MAN was the last, greatest superhero of the SILVER AGE, Mar 1978. Prof. Stein's inner voice & knowledge applied to Ronnie's superpowers was a tool for teaching Basic Chemistry, hiding real knowledge in cheesy dialog was a Julie Schwartz trick if I've ever known one!
Then in the "real world" when Strawberry Shortcake & GI JOE came to sell action figures in the guise of children's entertainment...I think that's when the SILVER AGE ended.
I dunno...what does the Professor think? I'm a little confused on what's "History" these days? If it's "mystory" then I say the Silver Age ended in the 80s; after Flash killed Zoom, after Strawberry Shortcake, after Superfriends became Super Powers and when Event Titles such as CRISIS and then Misters Miller & Moore appeared. (If it was "mystory", I'd call the mid-80s to 1997 the Dark Age. In 1997, Grant Morrison wrote and JLA and Warren Ellis wrote StormWatch...in early 2001, I started reading again via Grant's New X-Men..but iDigress...)

crea shaakti,
Rev. Sully
http://www.thechannelocho.blogspot.com/

Eric O'Sullivan
Boston, MA

So I guess that I grew up in the Bronze Age and that Ronnie Raymond was the last, greatest hero of the Bronze Age?
I need to achieve acceptance on this one, Tim. Good thing I'm in a bar.

[rev sully]

since I'm such a Poozer on Eras, I'll dig myself a little deeper...
I've never read Marvelman
There I've said it...I feel like such a n00b now. Dang...

Sure I've read the Wikis, sure I know the Magic Word and I love Alan Moore but for such a fan of great superhero fiction, I feel like now I've been left out for some reason. It's so...British. I feel as though I'm so underexposed to the British Comics scene. I remember as a kid being fascinated with 2000AD and MARVEL UK on the spindle at Newbury Comics (back when they had back issues) and Tower Records, Death's Head, Judge Dredd and most of all the British version of Transformers. I never bought any of them but I thought it was as cool as the Tom Baker Doctor Who.

PS The Gaiman Tweet was Priceless.