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Morgan Wick: I really want to add something about how silly-but-thinking-they're-clever comics and their fans are for deciding, upon having a second Golden Age, to call it the "Silver Age".
Ununnilium: You're aware both terms come from Greek mythology, right? `.`
Morgan Wick: That's the thinking-they're-clever part. Doesn't change the silly part.
Tzintzuntzan: Silly, yes — but it kind of beats "first golden age" and "second golden age." While we're here, I think there should also be something about how the Silver Age obsession wasn't really with science, but with "Science!" The writers were often pretty ignorant — wasn't there an X-Men story where the heroes can breathe in outer space by traveling inside a tunnel of ice?
Ununnilium: Good point!
Firelock: According to what I've read about the history of comics, Horror and True Crime comics were in Wertham's crosshairs more than Superhero comics - his _Seduction of the Innocent_ and the surrounding moral panic led to them fading away, leaving little in comicdom but infantalized superheroes and cartoon comics. That's a bit different than what's on the page for the era between Golden Age and Silver Age, but my recollection could be wrong.
Ununnilium: That's pretty much exactly what it says on The Interregnum. "Infantilized" is a pretty harsh word for it, though — it's surprising how much genuine characterization and drama some writers managed to squeeze in under the Code.
Ununnilium: Taking out "Jimmy Olsen was, of all things, the comic Jack Kirby insisted on working on after he moved to DC.", both because it stretches the blurb and because that's really more relevant to the Bronze Age.
