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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-14 09:34:00

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char: sgt. rock, char: superman/clark kent

Superman and Sgt. Rock team-up
When a sci-fi explosion knocks Superman back in time to World War II, he winds up joining Easy Company.

Shortly after Easy Company find Superman, the group is ambushed by Nazis.

They give the amnesiac soldier the nick-name Tag-Along.

Accidentally cracking the ground starts Superman along a chain of thought that eventually jars back his memory.

He figures out that, since his uniform belonged to Nazi spies, it was carrying a hidden tracking device.

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	arbre_rieur 2009-07-15 09:32 am UTC (link)
	Other comics coming out around this time (1979): Frank Miller's Daredevil, Claremont and Byrne's X-Men, Steve Englehart's Batman. Do people really think of these as Silver Age? If anything, I'd say it's the Bronze Age and modern comics that most people don't really distinguish between. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	buttler 2009-07-15 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	And rightly so. The comics of the late '70s and early '80s have far much more in common with the comics of the '90s and '00s than they do with the comics of the '60s. Really, you'd have an easier time stylistically folding the Silver Age into the Golden Age than into Bronze. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fredneil.livejournal.com
2009-07-16 03:21 am UTC (link)

It's easy to cherry pick titles and use them to demonstrate either position. I could just as easily point to the first What If series to demonstrate that Marvel wanted to retell the stories they told during the Silver Age, or the Invaders to demonstrate that they wanted to recreate the Golden Age. At the time, I never noticed any disconnect between the Silver and Bronze ages. It just seemed a natural progression from what Marvel did in the sixties, spending more time on characterization and giving the characters mundane problems. The disconnect came sometime later, when DC and Marvel began to write specifically for an older audience. The only way to return to the comics of the sixties through early 80s would be if a large percentage of their audience were 10-15 years old and they took that into account. And maybe if they began working under the old comic code restriction. Maybe a few other things, too.

In short, it's not really possible to recreate what comics were 30 years ago, any attempt is going to both fall short of the mark and not work as comics of the '00s so they shouldn't even try.

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