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Yes on all the above. Hoping GA Supes and Bronze Age Batman B&B have the correct matching dust jackets. This will finish Bronze Age B:B&B, yes? How many more GA Superman volumes are left, 2 or 3?
I do not recall the New Teen Titans vol. 5 solicit, when is that one due again?
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I'm used to Marvel, where Golden Age is typically the 40's, "Atlas age" is the 50's (Atlas, Timely, whatever) and then the Silver Age is the 60's.
Looks like DC is taking the Golden age all the way to the 60's... as these are having issues from the early 50's in them.
Pardon my (lack of) comic history, but isn't the 'starting line' of the Silver Age when Flash came out in Showcase? When was that exactly? is that the date line you're using when deciding when the "golden age" of Bats and Supes will end, and the 'Silver Age' volumes would start?
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I think the Flash debuted in 1958, just like the Fortress of Solitude story from the same year. I think that’s where Superman’s Silver Age begins. (The Super Key to Fort Superman) I wonder if the first Braniac story is earlier? Batman I don’t know? I like the Atomic Age for the 50s because of all those great paranoid EC stories.
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Correct, The Brave & The Bold 200 was the final issue before the title ended and Batman & The Outsider's took its place
New Teen Titans omnibus 5 is listed for Jan
https://www.amazon.com/New-Teen-Tita.../dp/177950473X
Omar from NMC has confirmed that Lucifer omnibus 2 and JLI omnibus 2 are just rescheduled
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For most DC characters, the Silver Age began with Showcase #4 in 1956, the debut of the new Flash. The exceptions are Superman, Batman & Robin, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Green Arrow & Speedy, who all kept being published continuously through the Golden Age into the Silver Age. (Superman, WW, and B&R because they were popular, and Green Arrow and Aquaman essentially by luck, since they happened to appear in the same comic as the mega-popular Superboy.)
Wonder Woman’s Golden Age/Silver Age transition is the easiest to pinpoint — Wonder Woman #97 (April 1958) featured the last art by H.G. Peters, the original WW artist, who then retired. In the next issue, writer Bob Kanigher retold Diana’s origin with all World War 2 references dropped and other minor changes (like her mother’s hair color). So that’s the dividing line.
Superman’s a little tougher, but most fans pinpoint the dividing line as Action Comics #241 (June 1958), the first appearance of the Fortress of Solitude. It was soon followed by a lot of the plot elements we associate with Silver Age Superman (Krypto, Kandor, Brainiac, multicolored kryptonite, etc); and while Superman had had a mountain hideout in the Golden Age, DC would later retroactively establish that the Earth-2 Superman never had a Fortress of Solitude. So that’s basically Superman’s dividing line.
Batman’s the toughest, and there’s really no easy answer. A lot of people point to Detective Comics #327 (May 1964), the debut of the “New Look” Batman with a yellow oval around his chest symbol. It’s understandable why they’d want to do that — it’s a clearly defined break with the stories that came before, as Julius Schwartz came on as editor and shook things up. But... it’s not the dividing line. Batman had already been adventuring with the Justice League for four (yellow oval-less) years at that point, and the JLA are definitely Silver Age, not Golden Age. And 1964 is just too late to mark the start of a DC Silver Age character... Barry Allen had been around for almost a decade at that point!
People have devoted huge articles to trying to figure out the Batman GA/SA dividing line, and there’s just no consensus, unfortunately. I would guess DC will just use the New Look debut to start the Silver Age omni line for the sake of convenience, but technically that’s not it.
https://therealbatmanchronologyproje.../thesilverage/
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mik...oy&articleid=9
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I do have this burning question:
Should I try to collect 5YL run in floppies? The letter pages of 5YL were so amusing. And the original coloring, for sure.
OR is the upcoming omnibus way to go?
"Boomerang arrow, Kate... It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it." - Clint
"Why the hell do you need an arrow that comes back to you after you shoot it, Clint?" - Kate
"Because... Boomerangs." - Clint.
While it will be nice to have those 9-panel pages in a larger format, the letters pages were an essential part of the 5YL experience. Also, the floppies can be found for less than cover price in most bargain bins. If you're strictly limited to one or the other, I'd actually go with the floppies.
I haven't heard anything about the omni being recolored; I'd be surprised if DC found this collection worthy of the time and attention required for that.