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* ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}''. The series started around the time of UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar and reflected that. But in a more recent issue, longtime member Vogue mentioned admiring Creator/PamelaAnderson, Creator/JennyMcCarthy, and Creator/ParisHilton as a child.

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' made a solid effort to avoid this, but realities of the genre (the whole "six months to publish one day's adventures" thing) and ScheduleSlip have been hobbling it. So, on the one hand, the entire cast has visibly aged since the series started, and Mark started out as a high school senior and has graduated high school, gone to college for a while, dropped out, and gotten a job. On the other hand, it took him eight years to do all that. On the ''other'' other hand, the most recent arc (the Viltrumite War) has gone into accelerated time, with one issue taking place over the span of many, many months, so it's catching up a bit.

* [[{{Fanon}} Fan estimates]] have the entirety of [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo]] taking place over five to six years so far. Barring a three year [[ScheduleSlip hiatus]], the comic has ran constantly since 1986.

* Averted in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', where characters age in real time. However, any given story may be set in any time period, meaning that characters may still be used for how many stories their creator desires.

* Averted in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', where characters age in real time. However, any given story may be set in any time period, meaning that characters may still be used for how many stories their creator desires..

** In the Gold Key/King/Charlton series of the 1960s/1970s, the tales usually clearly indicated patrilineal succession, rather than a sliding timescale/floating timeline. In issue#8, the death of a Phantom occurs in flashback. In issue #20, when encountering Krazz, the Phantom recalls that his father, the previous Phantom, handled Krazz earlier. In #67, the death of a Phantom occurs and the son takes the role; these events took place in the 1950s or 1960s at the earliest. In #68, the Phantom recalls how his father slew his female opponent's guardian presumably during his female opponent's youth. #70's tale of the Malix Ibex takes place with a flashback to 1938, and the epilogue clearly indicates that a subsequent Phantom has proceeded to the role. This situation still entails a floating timeline, as the extant Phantom remains the Phantom associated with Diana Palmer.

** In the Gold Key/King/Charlton series of the 1960s/1970s, the tales usually clearly indicated patrilineal succession, rather than a sliding timescale/floating timeline. In issue#8, the death of a Phantom occurs in flashback. In issue #20, when encountering Krazz, the Phantom recalls that his father, the previous Phantom, handled Krazz earlier. In #67, the death of a Phantom occurs and the son takes the role; these events took place in the 1950s or 1960s at the earliest. In#68, the Phantom recalls how his father slew his female opponent's guardian presumably during his female opponent's youth. #70's tale of the Malix Ibex takes place with a flashback to 1938, and the epilogue clearly indicates that a subsequent Phantom has proceeded to the role. This situation still entails a floating timeline, as the extant Phantom remains the Phantom associated with Diana Palmer.

** In the Gold Key/King/Charlton series of the 1960s/1970s, the tales usually clearly indicated patrilineal succession, rather than a sliding timescale/floating timeline. In issue#8, the death of a Phantom occurs in flashback. In issue #20, when encountering Krazz, the Phantom recalls that his father, the previous Phantom, handled Krazz previously. In #67, the death of a Phantom occurs and the son takes the role; these events took place in the 1950s or 1960s at the earliest. In#68, the Phantom recalls how his father slew his female opponent's guardian during his female opponent's youth. #70's tale of the Malix Ibex takes place with a flashback to 1938, and the epilogue clearly indicates that a subsequent Phantom has proceeded to the role.

* ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'': Dennis has been about 10 years old since he first appeared back in 1951. It's "about", because his physical appearance has changed repeatedly, getting sometimes taller and stockier like a teen, and sometimes smaller and more round-faced like a younger boy of 6 or 7 or so. However back in 1998, his mother got pregnant, carried a baby to term (his sister Bea), and little Bea was for several years a 2-year-old (and friends with 4yo pre-schooler Ivy the Terrible), while nobody else has aged one iota. Bea was retconned back to a baby when the 2009 CBBC cartoon started and the comic adopted its art style and continuity.

** In the Gold Key/King/Charlton series of the 1960s/1970s, the tales usually clearly indicated patrilineal succession, rather than a sliding timescale/floating timeline. In issue#8, the death of a Phantom occurs in flashback. In issue #20, when encountering Krazz, the Phantom recalls that his father, the previous Phantom, handled Krazz previously. In #67, the death of a Phantom occurs and the son takes the role; these events took place in the 1950s or 1960s at the earliest. In#68, the Phantom recalls how his father slew his opponent's father. #70's tale of the Malix Ibex takes place with a flashback to 1938, and the epilogue clearly indicates that a subsequent Phantom has proceeded to the role.

** In the Gold Key/King/Charlton series of the 1960s/1970s, the tales usually clearly indicated patrilineal succession, rather than a sliding timescale/floating timeline. In issue#8, the death of a Phantom occurs in flashback. In issue #20, when encountering Krazz, the Phantom recalls that his father, the previous Phantom, handled Krazz previously. In #67, the death of a Phantom occurs and the son takes the role; these events took place in the 1950s or 1960s at the earliest. #70's tale of the Malix Ibex takes place with a flashback to 1938, and the epilogue clearly indicates that a subsequent Phantom has proceeded to the role.

* ''ComicBook/{{SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics}}'' is actually a rare example of a piece of media in the ''Sonic'' franchise to ''subvert'' this trope, at least in the original continuity. By the latter half of the comics first decade, the setting was established as being the Mobian year of roughly 3236, with Sonic celebrating his sixteenth birthday in issue 68. After Sonic spends a year in space (issues 126-129) the year on Mobius is now 3237. Sonic even celebrates his birthday again, {{AgelessBirthdayEpisode with his exact age being questioned by himself and other characters as a result of the skip}}. The rebooted continuity more or less plays this straight, being closer in setting to the games.

** In the Gold Key/King/Charlton series of the 1960's/1970's, the tales usually clearly indicated patrilineal succession, rather than a sliding timescale/floating timeline. In issue#8, the death of a Phantom occurs in flashback. In issue #20, when encountering Krazz, the Phantom recalls that his father, the previous Phantom, handled Krazz previously. In #67, the death of a Phantom occurs and the son takes the role; these events took place in the 1950's or 1960's at the earliest. #70's tale of the Malix Ibex takes place with a flashback to 1938, and the epilogue clearly indicates that a subsequent Phantom has proceeded to the role.

* This gets ''really'' weird in the adventures of ''ComicBooks/DouweDabbert''. When Douwe is first introduced, he is a very old although surprisingly spry man. None of his adventures are explicitly dated and we are never told how much time passes between his adventures. Then, in one of his very last stories, he is reunited with Thorm, a character he met in his second adventure, and explicitly says that it has been twenty-two years since they last saw one another. This is possibly {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when he returns Thorm to the animal kingdom at the end of the story and remarks to the other animals that they haven't changed a bit. But wait, it gets stranger! Duting his travels, Douwe befriends a family of wizards, who recur throughout his adventures. The wizards are established to age very slowly. Pief, who looks and acts like a ten-year old boy, is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. But it is Pief who grows up during those twenty-two years. Compare his first appearance to his last and you will note that Pief now looks more like a teenager and acts much more maturely. All this while Douwe himself shows no signs of aging. (Although it is revealed in one of the stories that he has some wizard blood, so that might go part of the way...)

* Most shared universes, particularly of the superhero variety, tend to use Comic-Book Time, but there was one notable aversion to this trope with the ''Wildstorm'' universe, which (more or less) appeared to progress in real time. At least ever since Jenny Sparks died on panel at the end of the 20th century, which occurred at the end of 1999 in both real life and the WSU. Her successor, Jenny Quantum, was a baby one year later, was 3 years old in 2003, etc. until 2007 when 7 year old Jenny artificially aged herself to a teenager. But during those 7 years, and most likely after though we couldn't use Jenny as a gauge anymore, the universe as a whole advanced in real time. Most of the Wildstorm universe also followed real time, with references to WildCATS being formed in the 90s, for example. The only possible exception might be Gen 13, whose members remained college-aged from their first appearance in 1994 til the Worldstorm soft reboot in 2007.