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Posted: 19 January 2025 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I would LOVE to see JB's take on The Fly. I have a weirdfascination for the character. Weird because I had all ofone issue as a kid - I just love that costume!

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Same—and I only ever had one issue!

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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 19 January 2025 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

 “JB” wrote:
Was [J’Onn J’Onzz] the real first Silver Age superhero--or the last of the Golden Age?

Likely a rhetorical question, but I’m inclined to say Silver. For a couple of concrete reasons - the general rocketry vibe primary among them. But mostly because ages are defined in retrospect largely by outside observers, and in the case of comics, how a character is used by the following generations of creators can go a long way toward retroactively cementing classification. J’Onn’s been used as a signifier/mascot of that era in a few major projects from DC, which seems to indicate that thinking exists on an editorial level as well.
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Posted: 19 January 2025 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

It's ingrained in me that Earth One is Silver Age and Earth Two is Golden Age, so that puts both J'onn J'onzz and Captain Comet in the Silver Age.  Even after the "Merge" (CRISIS), that thinking persists.  It's a major point of James Robinson & Paul Smith's highly regarded GOLDEN AGE mini-series that Captain Comet was the first hero of a "new age"--the Silver Age.

I suppose the true answer is something I didn't really think of before--the Golden Age and the Silver Age overlapped!  Captain Comet premiered June, 1951, but the final issue of THE MARVEL FAMILY was January, 1954--I would put the entire Fawcett line in the Golden Age.
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