MatterEaterLad
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« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2007, 05:49:01 AM » |
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 The original point was that no one called "World War I" that until a good deal of time after the original "European War" was decided to be "World War II"... My grandfather on my dad's side was in the infantry in "The Great War", my dad (1925-1992) was an Army Aircorp bombadier on a B-17 in 1944-45 and my mom (still alive, born 1929) was the one who read comics, she liked Flash in the 1940s.
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« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2007, 06:43:23 AM » |
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I'm sure this has been discussed before, but is it the consensus that the ending point of the Golden Age
for Superman is when Siegel and Shuster no longer were involved in its production? It depends on who you ask! Some say 1948 and some say 1958. |
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crispy snax
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« Reply #26 on: April 22, 2007, 10:04:38 AM » |
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The original point was that no one called "World War I" that until a good deal of time after the original "European War" was decided to be "World War II"...
hehe ive just watched a simpsons episode that made a joke on that... its set in 1938 and grampa simpson moans "and i fought in world war one" and he gets asked "why do you call it that" and he just replies "oh you'll see!" |
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carmelo
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« Reply #27 on: April 22, 2007, 07:26:26 PM » |
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IMO, the "fifties" ended when The Beatles arrived, and the "sixties" ended when Nixon resigned.
Well,1964-1966 period was very,very different from 1967-69.In my opinion "50s" are 1953-1963,60s 1964-1966,70s 1967-1981. |
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Permanus
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« Reply #28 on: April 22, 2007, 10:44:50 PM » |
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Well,1964-1966 period was very,very different from 1967-69.In my opinion "50s" are 1953-1963,60s 1964-1966,70s 1967-1981.
WA-HOOOO! I was born in 1967! Now I can tell people I was born in the 1970s! I can finally start hitting on women in their early thirties! |
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TELLE
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« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2007, 12:59:27 AM » |
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See, we can't even agree when less contentious, more "mainstream" eras began and ended. Heck, we can't even agree when specific decades began or ended!
(Although I would add, since the Civil Rights protests began under Kennedy or maybe even earlier, I think the characterization of the 60s as the decade of protest is very useful.)
And the whole debate collapses once we get into exceptionalism --Superman's Silver Age is different from everyone else's, for example.
At the very least, it shows the problem of trying to name our own current era --I've lost track if it's supposed to be the IronAge, Mercury Age, Stone Age, Clay Age, Chromium Age, Hollywood Age (Tinsel Age?), New Golden Age, or what.
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« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2007, 01:18:39 AM » |
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I'm guessing I'm one of the younger people on here---I was born in 1975, while my parents were born in the mid-50s (and grandparents in the mid-30s). Don't think my grandparents or parents were ever big comic readers though...
I assumed the same end/start dates for those decades as well (the 60's starting in '64, the 70s with Nixon resigning, and the 80's with Reagan's inauguration into office)...
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