What are the different eras of DC Comics?

[TheDragonKing]

If you were to break up DC Comics into different eras along with the years, what would it be?

[scary harpy]

If you were to break up DC Comics into different eras along with the years, what would it be?

I would define eras in DC comics by the decades.

Most writers and artists would not know what 'age' they were in: the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Death Metal age, etcetera.

Hopefully, most knew what decade they were in.

[Lightning63]

I generally just define it by the different relaunches: Pre-Crisis, Post Crisis, New 52, Rebirth and Infinite Frontier. Though you could probably split Pre-Crisis, Post-Crisis and Rebirth in two.

[Digifiend]

1935-1956 - Golden Age
1956-1970 - Silver Age (starts when Barry Allen debuts in Showcase #4)
1970-1986 - Bronze Age (ends with Crisis on Infinite Earths)
1986-2005 - post-Crisis
2006-2011 - One Year Later
2011-2016 - New 52
2016-2020 - Rebirth
2021-present - Infinite Frontier

[DrNewGod]

1935-1956 - Golden Age
1956-1970 - Silver Age (starts when Barry Allen debuts in Showcase #4)
1970-1986 - Bronze Age (ends with Crisis on Infinite Earths)
1986-2005 - post-Crisis
2006-2011 - One Year Later
2011-2016 - New 52
2016-2020 - Rebirth
2021-present - Infinite Frontier

The span between 1951 and 1956 was different enough to deserve its own lable. Further, I'm not convinced that the Silver Age really burst full force onto the scene with Flash's arrival, although he was unquestionably the first step in that direction. I'm not sure when the SA really began, I haven't read enough of it.

[achilles]

Golden Age
Silver Age
Bronze Age
Post COIE
90s Gimmicks
early 2000s
The toxic sludge era, still going on.

[Jody Garland]

The span between 1951 and 1956 was different enough to deserve its own lable. Further, I'm not convinced that the Silver Age really burst full force onto the scene with Flash's arrival, although he was unquestionably the first step in that direction. I'm not sure when the SA really began, I haven't read enough of it.

Atomic Age has seen some use for '51 to '56 and it fits well enough. It's sort of a wild west era for comics as a whole, where publishers were popping up and dying left and write, genres popped up and fell off the radar, the CCA was formed, Congress investigated comics, all sorts of stuff. It stands apart pretty well from the Golden and Silver Ages.

[SJNeal]

1935-1956 - Golden Age
1956-1970 - Silver Age (starts when Barry Allen debuts in Showcase #4)
1970-1986 - Bronze Age (ends with Crisis on Infinite Earths)
1986-2005 - post-Crisis
2006-2011 - One Year Later
2011-2016 - New 52
2016-2020 - Rebirth
2021-present - Infinite Frontier

For all intents and purposes, this pretty much mirrors the mapping in my own head as well.

[MajorHoy]

"Eras"?

My bad. I thought you said "errors" . . .