History Quotes / TheSilverAgeofComicBooks

->''"Sorry for not keeping you up to date on what’s up in ''Dick Tracy''! The new creative team has been pretty relentless in bringing back characters and plotlines from the strip’s storied past, and are now apparently moving on to the extremely wacky late ’60s period where Dick went to the moon repeatedly and Mysta, the daughter of the Governor of the Moon (no, really), married Dick’s son. Later she was blown up by by a car bomb, but now has apparently been … Whatever, any excuse to have a character say 'No! I’ve had enough of '''''your world!''''' I want to take my family to my '''''real home'''''. Back on '''''the moon!'''''[='=] is a good excuse as far as I’m concerned."''
-->--'''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''' [[http://joshreads.com/?p=17278 on]] ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''

->“Sorry to be saying this, but what was REALLY right about it? The warm and fuzzy memories? The fact that nothing of much significance ever seemed to happen to the heroes?\\
Was that bygone era REALLY “doing right” by blatantly ignoring the fact that heroism almost ALWAYS involves making hard choices, instead of avoiding them? A crazy quilt funland wherein every day is more like “The Truman Show” than real life?\\
Thanks, but no thanks. You can keep the Super-dog and cat. :)”\\
"Actually, in the Silver Age and the later pre-crisis time, they managed to combine the funland with more serious issues. The imaginary stories in the 60s in particular were very much concerned with sacrifices and hard choices. Yes, they weren’t part of continuity, but that’s because Mort Weisinger and his writers didn’t have the option of resorting to reboots, so they had to have the main characters remain fundamentally unchanged. The stories were written for children, but overall had some deeply resonant themes: sacrifice, love of family, the need to belong.\\
What was right about them? Read Franchise/{{Superman}}’s return to Krypton by Jerry Siegel and Wayne Boring. Read the stories about ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}’s parents in Action 310 or so, read the Virus X story, or the Sally Selwyn stories that another poster mentioned. For all the criticism that those stories take, and the attention lavished on the red Kryptonite stories, or Jimmy Olsen’s disguises, there are a lot of stories that emphasize that heroism involves sacrifice.\\
Later, under Julie Schwartz’s editorship, the stories were written for an older audience, and were more openly about those themes. Elliot Maggin wrote a number of good stories involving Lex Luthor. Cary Bates did also, but with a different approach. Marv Wolfman did an excellent series in Action about what happens when someone trying to do the right thing is misunderstood. (That also had some great art by Gil Kane, by the way.)\\

->''"The Silver Age was when big headed future people went back in time to stop solar-powered flying cars. The time Batman put on multi-colored outfits every other story. And the time Superman got the power to shoot rainbows from his fingers that shot out a miniature version of himself! And yeah! I'm not joking about that last one! [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer That actually happened]]!"''[[note]][[http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/npuwcb4ctpijkj559dif.png He's really not]][[/note]]
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''' in one of his many serious recaps of the kind of things that happened during the Silver Age.

-->[[http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/with-right-mindset-its-lot-of-fun.html Bronze Age Babies Blog]]

->''"Apart from the soul-shattering claim of super-kisses, Silver Age Superman's other supposed powers he made up on the spot include:''
-->1. Super-weaving
-->2. Super-ventriloquism
-->3. Super-landscaping
-->4. Super-motherfucking-mathematics
->''It's at this point where any rational human being stands up and calls horseshit, but in the pages of Action Comics, rationality is nothing more than a cheap hooker Superman picked up outside a Costco, raped, beat, and left for dead by the side of the road:''
-->While wearing clown makeup.
-->And singing "Goodbye Horses."
-->-- '''''Website/{{Cracked}}''''' on Silver Age {{Franchise/Superman}}

Maybe you can take him out of the city in 2 days? Or move at superspeed to catch the helicopter? Maybe pull the fire alarm in the Planet before the crash?

-->-- '''''Website/{{Cracked}}''''' on Silver Age {{Franchise/Superman}}'''

->"[[CatchPhrase Great Scott!]] Why is [[IntrepidReporter Jimmy]] [[MrExposition stuffing that volcano crater with a battleship?]] [[NarmCharm What on Earth is his]] '''[[NarmCharm huge, twisted turtle-mind]]''' [[NarmCharm up to?]]"
-->-- '''Superman''', in a moment that perfectly encapsulates the Silver Age: [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant monsters]], [[AssPull incomprehensible plots]], and [[SuperDickery dickery]].

->''"Ah, the revenge of an angry man who unknowingly pimped a shape-shifting alien wizard. Like every element of this story, [[SpaceWhaleAesop it speaks to all of us]], even today…"''
-->--'''[[http://www.the-isb.com/?cat=122 Chris Sims]]''' on ''Power Man and Iron Fist #73''

->'''Linkara''': "Sage, we ''we do not talk'' about The Silver Age. We put that all behind us! We put out fingers in our ears, and we [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain pretend it never happened!]] That is the agreement!"
-> '''Bennet the Sage''': "Oh come on, it's hilarious! There's this scene in like Superman 235 where he gets spanked..."
-> '''Linkara''': "YES I KNOW! SUPERMAN WAS SPANKED! SUPERBOY WAS SPANKED! BATMAN WAS SPANKED! '''''EVERYBODY''''' WAS SPANKED IN THE SILVER AGE!"
-->-- ''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Comic Conventions]]''

->"You see, the Silver Age was kind of insane. And no, I don't hate the Silver Age, I'm just sayin' it like it is. ''The Silver Age was frickin' nuts.''"
-->--'''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]'''

->While wearing clown makeup.
->And singing "Goodbye Horses."

->Apart from the soul-shattering claim of super-kisses, Silver Age Superman's other supposed powers he made up on the spot include:

->It's at this point where any rational human being stands up and calls horseshit, but in the pages of Action Comics, rationality is nothing more than a cheap hooker Superman picked up outside a Costco, raped, beat, and left for dead by the side of the road.

->'''Linkara''': "Sage, we WE DO NOT TALK about The Silver Age! We put that all behind us! We put out fingers in our ears, and we [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain pretend it never happened!]] That is the agreement!"

-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}} on Silver Age {{Franchise/Superman}}'''

->'''Linkara''': "Sage, WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE SILVER AGE! WE PUT ALL THAT BEHIND US! WE PUT OUR FINGERS IN OUR EARS, AND WE PRETEND IT NEVER HAPPENED! THAT IS THE AGREEMENT!"

-> '''Linkara''': "YES I KNOW! SUPERMAN WAS SPANKED! SUPERBOY WAS SPANKED! BATMAN WAS SPANKED! EVERYBODY WAS SPANKED IN THE SILVER AGE!"

-->--[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]

->"You see, the Silver Age was kind of insane. And no, I don't hate the Silver Age, I'm just sayin' it like it is. The Silver Age was frickin' nuts."

-->--[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall ''Linkara'']]

-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}} on Silver Age {{Superman}}'''

--> -- '''Website/{{Cracked}} on Silver Age {{Superman}}'''

--> -- ''[[WebOriginal/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Comic Conventions]]''

--> -- '''Superman''', in a moment that perfectly encapsulates the Silver Age: [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant monsters]], [[AssPull incomprehensible plots]], and [[SuperDickery dickery]].

--> -- '''WebOriginal/{{Cracked}} on Silver Age {{Superman}}'''

--> -- '''{{Cracked}} on Silver Age {{Superman}}'''

--> -- ''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Comic Conventions]]''

->''We didn't even kiss\\
'til Issue 26\\
And this world still feels like 1963...''
--> -- [[http://www.kibblesmith.com/metasciences/ The Metasciences]], ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te0smsBSu1s Four Color Love Story]]''

->"[[CatchPhrase Great Scott!]] Why is [[IntrepidReporter Jimmy]] [[MrExposition stuffing that volcano crater with a battleship?]] [[NarmCharm What on Earth is his]] [[NarmCharm '''huge, twisted turtle-mind''']] [[NarmCharm up to?]]"