Your Guide To Comic Books

Gold: 1933-1955.
Silver: 1956-1972.
Bronze: 1973-1983.
Modern: 1984-present.

Let’s say that GA went on for 22 years, SA went on for 16, & BA went on for 10. In the future, when Modern Age comics are too old to be considered Modern Age, will they be Brass, Iron, or Stone Age? & when is the cut-off line? The comics I read in the 90s were kid-stuff to what’s out now, so have we already missed the mark?

Why are they going downhill in time when the Golden Age comics were so terrible & the Silver Age comics were embarrassing & loaded with propaganda? Shouldn’t the Golden Age be the Stone Age of comics?

Well, the people that made these designations are older people, not from our generation.

We may think some of the Golden age stuff is terrible, but to older people the golden age comics are "nostalgic". Everything contains history that should be learned about and preserved…but I have never agreed with this system for naming things.

Once we reach something new that we have to define an even more modern era, I think it will just change in general–maybe to like the "online age" if webcomics dominate it, or name it after whatever icon that defines it.

Or it could be like they have done in the film industry and had a"post-modern" period added after the "modern" age.

Just remember, history is full of relative definitions. (I mean, would you want to live the rest of your life in the Golden age of Greece or Rome? I know I wouldn’t) In normal historical time we have the Stone age, followed by the Bronze age, followed by the Iron age…and these stages are all named for the types of tools that people used in civilizations of each time period, not necessarily for a gradient of best to worst.

Perhaps one day, all of these gold-silver-bronze aluminum or plastic-whatever titles will fall to the wayside and they will just be named for what they contain. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. Don’t get too bent out of shape over it…sometimes historians are just a little weird about stuff like this. ^_^

Gold: 1933-1955.
Silver: 1956-1972.
Bronze: 1973-1983.
Modern: 1984-present.

Let’s say that GA went on for 22 years, SA went on for 16, & BA went on for 10. In the future, when Modern Age comics are too old to be considered Modern Age, will they be Brass, Iron, or Stone Age? & when is the cut-off line? The comics I read in the 90s were kid-stuff to what’s out now, so have we already missed the mark?

Why are they going downhill in time when the Golden Age comics were so terrible & the Silver Age comics were embarrassing & loaded with propaganda? Shouldn’t the Golden Age be the Stone Age of comics?

Well, the people that made these designations are older people, not from our generation.

We may think some of the Golden age stuff is terrible, but to older people the golden age comics are "nostalgic". Everything contains history that should be learned about and preserved…but I have never agreed with this system for naming things.

Once we reach something new that we have to define an even more modern era, I think it will just change in general–maybe to like the "online age" if webcomics dominate it, or name it after whatever icon that defines it.

Or it could be like they have done in the film industry and had a"post-modern" period added after the "modern" age.

Just remember, history is full of relative definitions. (I mean, would you want to live the rest of your life in the Golden age of Greece or Rome? I know I wouldn’t) In normal historical time we have the Stone age, followed by the Bronze age, followed by the Iron age…and these stages are all named for the types of tools that people used in civilizations of each time period, not necessarily for a gradient of best to worst.

Perhaps one day, all of these gold-silver-bronze aluminum or plastic-whatever titles will fall to the wayside and they will just be named for what they contain. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. Don’t get too bent out of shape over it…sometimes historians are just a little weird about stuff like this. ^_^

Gold: 1933-1955.
Silver: 1956-1972.
Bronze: 1973-1983.
Modern: 1984-present.

Let’s say that GA went on for 22 years, SA went on for 16, & BA went on for 10. In the future, when Modern Age comics are too old to be considered Modern Age, will they be Brass, Iron, or Stone Age? & when is the cut-off line? The comics I read in the 90s were kid-stuff to what’s out now, so have we already missed the mark?

Why are they going downhill in time when the Golden Age comics were so terrible & the Silver Age comics were embarrassing & loaded with propaganda? Shouldn’t the Golden Age be the Stone Age of comics?

Well, the people that made these designations are older people, not from our generation.

We may think some of the Golden age stuff is terrible, but to older people the golden age comics are "nostalgic". Everything contains history that should be learned about and preserved…but I have never agreed with this system for naming things.

Once we reach something new that we have to define an even more modern era, I think it will just change in general–maybe to like the "online age" if webcomics dominate it, or name it after whatever icon that defines it.

Or it could be like they have done in the film industry and had a"post-modern" period added after the "modern" age.

Just remember, history is full of relative definitions. (I mean, would you want to live the rest of your life in the Golden age of Greece or Rome? I know I wouldn’t) In normal historical time we have the Stone age, followed by the Bronze age, followed by the Iron age…and these stages are all named for the types of tools that people used in civilizations of each time period, not necessarily for a gradient of best to worst.

Perhaps one day, all of these gold-silver-bronze aluminum or plastic-whatever titles will fall to the wayside and they will just be named for what they contain. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. Don’t get too bent out of shape over it…sometimes historians are just a little weird about stuff like this. ^_^

Gold: 1933-1955.
Silver: 1956-1972.
Bronze: 1973-1983.
Modern: 1984-present.

Let’s say that GA went on for 22 years, SA went on for 16, & BA went on for 10. In the future, when Modern Age comics are too old to be considered Modern Age, will they be Brass, Iron, or Stone Age? & when is the cut-off line? The comics I read in the 90s were kid-stuff to what’s out now, so have we already missed the mark?

Why are they going downhill in time when the Golden Age comics were so terrible & the Silver Age comics were embarrassing & loaded with propaganda? Shouldn’t the Golden Age be the Stone Age of comics?

Well, the people that made these designations are older people, not from our generation.

We may think some of the Golden age stuff is terrible, but to older people the golden age comics are "nostalgic". Everything contains history that should be learned about and preserved…but I have never agreed with this system for naming things.

Once we reach something new that we have to define an even more modern era, I think it will just change in general–maybe to like the "online age" if webcomics dominate it, or name it after whatever icon that defines it.

Or it could be like they have done in the film industry and had a"post-modern" period added after the "modern" age.

Just remember, history is full of relative definitions. (I mean, would you want to live the rest of your life in the Golden age of Greece or Rome? I know I wouldn’t) In normal historical time we have the Stone age, followed by the Bronze age, followed by the Iron age…and these stages are all named for the types of tools that people used in civilizations of each time period, not necessarily for a gradient of best to worst.

Perhaps one day, all of these gold-silver-bronze aluminum or plastic-whatever titles will fall to the wayside and they will just be named for what they contain. I suppose we will just have to wait and see. Don’t get too bent out of shape over it…sometimes historians are just a little weird about stuff like this. ^_^

Whatever happened to the femme fatale?

Sultry, smouldering temptresses lit up the screen in cinema’s golden age – but where are they now?

Sheila Johnston pays tribute to the femme fatale

Rita Hayworth in ‘Gilda’ (1946), a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor, in which Hayworth was a legendary ultimate femme fatale.

They came prowling out of the shadows, wreathed in smoke, wisecracks and stolen mink; women no better than they should be, with only trouble in mind.

They never needed to diet, displayed but a flickering interest in men for money, power and meaningless sex, and were more likely to accessorise with a gun than a Chihuahua.

March saw a monster celebration of the femme fatale in all her guises. Screened as part of the Birds Eye View women’s film festival, some 30 movies commemorated the vamp in silent cinema – the glorious likes of Louise Brooks and Theda Bara – and in later films up to today.

A parallel event, at the BFI Mediatheque at QUAD, in Derby, highlights wicked ladies in British film and television in archive material that will be available to view indefinitely.

The femme fatale had her greatest moment in the film noir of the Forties: it’s claimed that she signified male fears of women liberated by their part in the war.

The recent revival, via the Kill Bill & Charlie’s Angels franchises, & a few odd vampiress movies, seems now to have faded?

Will Power Girl comics launch a new wave of lethal ladies onto the screen?
In kinda contrast:-

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Airkltf4wESd9K3TitBk10Tsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091002041235AAa3keK
Almost ..

.. crackin’ da femme fatale code, eh?

LOL
?

Dunno dude ..

That’s Y I’m asking you ..

Nurse: I think vee vill need the thumbscrews on this one ..

mua-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!
Pp

I’ve seen a load of Bullwinkle in my time, but I don’t recall:-

http://www.google.com/search?q=Natasha+Fatale%2C+Jay+Ward%27s+marvelous+dark+lady+of+the+Rocky+and+Bullwinkle&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ACAW_en

LOL
PJ

To quote the song maybe most often associated with The Beatles >>

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah >>

But you both missed that rather sadistic 007 ‘Nursee’ - Barbara Carrera - who rather sadistically tortured both Roger Moore’s 007 & her dumbo male accomplice
o)k .. ok ..

i KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKIN’, PUNK

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
But >>

seein’ this is like 4pm to midnight with 4 punk bands, punk >>

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsrXtnh6BLdnDlA_C4M7LQ_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091002002419AA22nsd

LOL
As for parallels between Revelation 17 infamous vision & …

http://www.BibleGateway.com
HEY

See now - or on VoD archives:-

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091003083148AA0SEsI

Wot d’ya think?
Expiry just extended - for folk sheltering from these gale force winds

Sounds like femme fatale hurricanes, eh?

LOL

Ever see "Body Heat?" "LA Confidential?" "Fatal Attraction?" "Basic Instinct?"

I loved Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" and Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," but occasionally, and perhaps too rarely, there is a still steamy, seductress that we know is no good, but just can’t resist!

Whatever happened to the femme fatale?

Sultry, smouldering temptresses lit up the screen in cinema’s golden age – but where are they now?

Sheila Johnston pays tribute to the femme fatale

Rita Hayworth in ‘Gilda’ (1946), a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor, in which Hayworth was a legendary ultimate femme fatale.

They came prowling out of the shadows, wreathed in smoke, wisecracks and stolen mink; women no better than they should be, with only trouble in mind.

They never needed to diet, displayed but a flickering interest in men for money, power and meaningless sex, and were more likely to accessorise with a gun than a Chihuahua.

March saw a monster celebration of the femme fatale in all her guises. Screened as part of the Birds Eye View women’s film festival, some 30 movies commemorated the vamp in silent cinema – the glorious likes of Louise Brooks and Theda Bara – and in later films up to today.

A parallel event, at the BFI Mediatheque at QUAD, in Derby, highlights wicked ladies in British film and television in archive material that will be available to view indefinitely.

The femme fatale had her greatest moment in the film noir of the Forties: it’s claimed that she signified male fears of women liberated by their part in the war.

The recent revival, via the Kill Bill & Charlie’s Angels franchises, & a few odd vampiress movies, seems now to have faded?

Will Power Girl comics launch a new wave of lethal ladies onto the screen?
In kinda contrast:-

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Airkltf4wESd9K3TitBk10Tsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091002041235AAa3keK
Almost ..

.. crackin’ da femme fatale code, eh?

LOL
?

Dunno dude ..

That’s Y I’m asking you ..

Nurse: I think vee vill need the thumbscrews on this one ..

mua-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!
Pp

I’ve seen a load of Bullwinkle in my time, but I don’t recall:-

http://www.google.com/search?q=Natasha+Fatale%2C+Jay+Ward%27s+marvelous+dark+lady+of+the+Rocky+and+Bullwinkle&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ACAW_en

LOL
PJ

To quote the song maybe most often associated with The Beatles >>

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah >>

But you both missed that rather sadistic 007 ‘Nursee’ - Barbara Carrera - who rather sadistically tortured both Roger Moore’s 007 & her dumbo male accomplice
o)k .. ok ..

i KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKIN’, PUNK

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
But >>

seein’ this is like 4pm to midnight with 4 punk bands, punk >>

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsrXtnh6BLdnDlA_C4M7LQ_ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091002002419AA22nsd

LOL
As for parallels between Revelation 17 infamous vision & …

http://www.BibleGateway.com
HEY

See now - or on VoD archives:-

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091003083148AA0SEsI

Wot d’ya think?
Expiry just extended - for folk sheltering from these gale force winds

Sounds like femme fatale hurricanes, eh?

LOL

Ever see "Body Heat?" "LA Confidential?" "Fatal Attraction?" "Basic Instinct?"

I loved Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity" and Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," but occasionally, and perhaps too rarely, there is a still steamy, seductress that we know is no good, but just can’t resist!

Listen to the entire interview here.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/09/10/segments/140372

Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly have collected a volume of tales from the golden age of the comic book. The TOON Treasury of Classic Childrens Comics includes 60 complete stories from classic master comic book writers and artists from the 1930s through the 1960s, such as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Basil Wolverton, George Carlson, and more.

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Here is a beautifual copy of FF #48, the 1st Galactus and Silver Surfer! I would give it an 8.0. I also picked up an ASM #12. I said it was an X-men #12 in my vid, but its not. Please rate my vid and post some comments. And PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!

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The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as the golden age…
“Tales From The Golden Age” adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime.
Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and “Tales From The Golden Age” aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.
On the occasion of Ceausescu’s working visits, countryside mayors ended up hanging fruit in trees to make sure their villages would be noticed, obeying even the strangest orders from the ferocious Party activists. Communist Party secret regulations stated that in official pictures President Ceausescu couldn’t take his hat off in front of the representatives of the rotten capitalistic world, President d’Estaing included. A professional driver decides to open his sealed truck for the first time in his career and discovers the connection between eggs, Easter and marital love. A policeman gets a live pig as gift before Christmas and decides that gas poisoning would be the best way to kill the animal silently amongst his hungry neighbors. In the 80s Romania, Bughi and Crina play Bonnie and Clyde, robbing people of bottled air.
“Tales From The Golden Age” combines several true stories to portray an era during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.

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a close-up nostalgic look at some of the past’s great comic covers…eclectic mix of golden age comics - see who you recognize, from the obscure to the famous…enjoy

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