How can people actually enjoy Silver Age comics these days? All these early Superboy and Legion comics fucking suck

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lacked strong characterization

What was so unenjoyable about it? I haven't read silver age Legion, but Superman was good. It was the best Superman I've ever read.

You are a vermin on this website.

Bronze or Silver Age?

It's funny, I'm mostly here for the cartoon side but I do like reading minifigs silver age storytimes; modern superhero comics seem really lame to me, superheroes are such an absurd concept I can't read stuff that takes it seriously. The old ones though were simple and silly which I can appreciate

He's right tho

The F4 storytimes? Funny, I always considered the silver age fantastic four to be unusually serious for its time period.

>sincere
Nothing from that era was sincere.

>comics should be haardcoooore and muhture and pander to 40s years olds like me!

What about non-capeshit? What if I told you that the medium only became juvenile to escape from strict regulation? Not even children enjoy the childish, there’s a reason preteen girls are so drawn to horror movies, it’s often the first “”‘adult’”” narrative to reach them as they mature. The same reason why DC was selling so poorly during the silver age, their stories felt inconsequential even to children in the 60’s. Kids liked EC horror, not dramatic fluff.

You mean like the story where Ben became Blackbeard The Pirate?

I’m not claiming it was “gritty” or anything, I’m just saying it has a bit more meat than the average silver age book. At least when vompared to Daredevil and Xmen in the same time period.

Can you explain this? I usually have an interest in kitsch (or, as the kids call it nowadays, ironically liking something), but my enjoyment of silver age comics usually comes from how stupid it is.

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Marvel mostly sold like hotcakes in the same period. It was goofy but had more of a soap opera slant and improvements on the use of continuity. There's something to be said for taking those regulations and making something that kept drawing people back

Silver Age is fun.

He means that they didn't try to be pretentious, just good old juvenile fun

DC outsold Marvel during the silver age. It was when Adam West Batman and adventures of Superman were famous on tv. Marvel and DC at the time were targeted towards different age groups.

That really only proves my point, it was that veneer of seriousness that drew people to marble at that time. When asm was coming out it was something completely different, in modern terms- it felt like a cape deconstruction, as retarded as that may sound today. The point is, the things people have come to associate with the silver age weren’t well liked by children of the day. Even 11 year olds felt like they were being spoken down to when reading silver age DC.

Capes would have died in the 70’s if they hadn’t adopted the tropes of asm, the genre only exists because it takes deconstructions and take-downs and adapts them into the norm.

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Yeah, that's why sales are better than ever now that they targering mainly to adults, right?

Reminder that Raina Telmeiger's cornering the GN market with all-age/kids GNs, and 90s Spider-Man had better ratings than 90s Batman, which bombed when put on a prime time slot to capitalise on its rep as a mature show.

Ironically, silver age had a lot of non-capeshit. As much as today's mainstream comics.

silver age legion really got going when jim shooter took over, before that it was pretty fun

Another reason to appreciate the Silver Age. Variety actually existed back then.

OG Legion was a proper trip, with all manner of wacky planet hopping shenanigans years before Star Trek was a thing. It was great.

That's why people when think about silver age think about marvel