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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 27, 2014 11:55:52 GMT -5
I've heard it said with music that someone's personal "golden age" of music tends to be what they listened to between the ages of 10-20. I find that to be somewhat true for me, and also somewhat applicable to comics. My favorite era for comics would have to around 1974 to 1987 (beginning around the whole Mantis/Celestial Madonna thing and ending around DNAgents).
Does the correlation hold true for anyone else? Do you find your favorite era tends to be around your teen years (assuming you were into comics in your teens)?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 11:59:58 GMT -5
I invoked the old saying that "the golden age of science fiction is 12" (though for me it was actually a couple of years later than that) in my post a few pages back; for me, the golden age of comics was pretty much ages 7 1/2-10. I guess my silver age, as it were, would be my teens.
Looking back at the (purged even before the Great Re-Set, alas) first Classic Comics Christmas listing from back in 2005, four of my choices as favorite single issues of all time can came out when I was 7; two more showed up on the spinner racks when I was 8. Two I bought when I was 17. That sounds about right as far as my preferences were concerned.
(If I were to pick 10 more, they'd pretty much all be from when I was 7-9.)
As for music, while I love a lot of what I listened to when I first discovered rock & r'n'b circa age 10, my personal golden age is hard to narrow down. Or maybe it's just a really looooong golden age -- ages 18-40 or thereabouts.
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Post by Randle-El on Aug 27, 2014 12:05:24 GMT -5
I've heard it said with music that someone's personal "golden age" of music tends to be what they listened to between the ages of 10-20. I find that to be somewhat true for me, and also somewhat applicable to comics. My favorite era for comics would have to around 1974 to 1987 (beginning around the whole Mantis/Celestial Madonna thing and ending around DNAgents). Does the correlation hold true for anyone else? Do you find your favorite era tends to be around your teen years (assuming you were into comics in your teens)? Reading the article, there doesn't appear to be any reason why the mechanisms that cause one to particularly favor music from one's adolescence couldn't also do the same for other types of entertainment. It would seem that the key factors as strong association of the entertainment with specific memories or events in one's past, as well consuming similar entertainments as one's social network. I know the latter is definitely true for myself. I remember going to summer camps around middle school years and sitting around with the guys having comic book debates. There was one kid who was our de facto comic trivia guru because he had the largest collection (I think about 5000 books), so he settled all arguments. That was during the thick of my comic reading years as a kid. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 27, 2014 12:28:38 GMT -5
I've heard it said with music that someone's personal "golden age" of music tends to be what they listened to between the ages of 10-20. I find that to be somewhat true for me, and also somewhat applicable to comics. My favorite era for comics would have to around 1974 to 1987 (beginning around the whole Mantis/Celestial Madonna thing and ending around DNAgents). Does the correlation hold true for anyone else? Do you find your favorite era tends to be around your teen years (assuming you were into comics in your teens)? I was 17 when I got my first comics and started collecting. That era tends to be my favorite, because, outside of TV cartoons, all of it was new to me, as far as comics. So the barrage of comics I bought seem to be the ones that imprint in my mind the most. I think that, though, also might have to do with the memories that go with the comics that I was buying then, as much as the comic itself. As far as music, yeah, those years about exactly on the money. Most of the music that I haven't discovered later in life, that is still music of that time, and older, and what I continue to enjoy. A lot that did fall to the wayside of what I listened to in those years, was "peer pressure" music, or what I listened to to fit in socially. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 27, 2014 12:30:24 GMT -5
I've heard it said with music that someone's personal "golden age" of music tends to be what they listened to between the ages of 10-20. I find that to be somewhat true for me, and also somewhat applicable to comics. My favorite era for comics would have to around 1974 to 1987 (beginning around the whole Mantis/Celestial Madonna thing and ending around DNAgents). Does the correlation hold true for anyone else? Do you find your favorite era tends to be around your teen years (assuming you were into comics in your teens)? I can definitely say it doesn't hold true with music. I'd rather put knitting needles in my ears than listen to almost anything I was listening to at that time. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 12:39:34 GMT -5
I take it you were a big Eagles fan as a kid.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 27, 2014 12:49:14 GMT -5
I take it you were a big Eagles fan as a kid. Not really...but I'll take the knitting needles over them. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 15:44:30 GMT -5
For me I prefer music from when I was 15-25. Although I do like some of today's bands like Shinedown or Alter Bridge.
As far as comics - it would be ages 6-24. Although I still like stuff printed from the 40's & 50's before I was born.
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 27, 2014 21:08:31 GMT -5
Well, the 30s and 40s started it all, the 50s and 60s were goofy fun, the 70s had the rise of social relevance and indie books, the 80s had Crisis, Secret Wars, Contest of Champions, Watchman, Dark Knight Returns, Camelot 3000, JLI, Suicide Squad, Contest of Champions, Man of Steel, Perez Wonder Woman, Batman Year 1, Sandman, the beginning of Verigo, etc, the 90s had triangle era Superman, Kingdom Come, Marvels, Morrison JLA, Waid Flash, tonnes of Vertigo, etc, the 00s had Kelly Action, JLA/Avengers, the rise of great Image books...sooooo...from the 30s to now?
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Post by badwolf on Nov 20, 2014 12:31:04 GMT -5
I was giving this a lot of thought today. I'd imagine, for many of you, your favorite window of time in comicdom would have been when you were young and first collecting, but maybe not. I started collecting in 1989, and I realized today that nearly all of my favorite classic comic material was published between 1974 and 1984. Really. Think about it. You've got the best years of Claremont's X-Men, Wolfman and Perez's New Teen Titans, Thomas' Avengers (though, admittedly, I've yet to read it), Englehart's Defenders (still need to read those too), Conan, The Batman Family, the Wein/Conway/Moench Batman run and the Pre-Crisis Jason Todd, the rise of the Marvel/Curtis Black and White Mags, the Giant-Sizes, the Treasury Editions, the first generation of independent publishers (Pacific, First, Comico, Eclipse, as well as the the Pinis and Dave Sim), and the absolute best works from my two favorite writers: Doug Moench (Master of Kung Fu, Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight, Planet of the Apes, Batman) and Steve Gerber (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Tales of the Zombie). Really, if I eliminated everything in my comic collection that wasn't from this ten year span, I wouldn't miss much of what I dumped. This is the heart of everything I love about comics. So what's your window? Can you narrow most of what you love about comics down to a specific span of time? I started reading comics in the mid-late 70s, so my "golden age" is about the same as yours. For all the examples you list, and nostalgia too of course. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 14:52:01 GMT -5
I would say from 1967 to 1977 because of the many legends of writers and artists existed during this time frame.
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Post by fred2 on Nov 23, 2014 11:06:42 GMT -5
1938-1943
1960-1963
1974-1977
1986-1987
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2014 15:55:12 GMT -5
I am going to say, probably, as of now, the late 70's-mid to late 80's.
Only because whenever I read something from the early 80's, it hits me. And I recall things from my childhood. I was very young in the early 80's, and I wouldn't have probably read comics at that age, but reading books from that time strikes something in me, and suddenly I can smell smells from that time, see the clothes back then, the styles, and the sounds.
It's odd.
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