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A comic book history timeline
The Golden Era
Pre-Golden Age...
1896 to 1937
In the beginning...
Early commercial attempts...
More strips debut...
Birth of the modern comic...
Commercial success at last...
Even more strips debut...
DC Comics begins publication...
An explosion of publishers...
Detective Comics cometh...
The Golden Age...
1938 to 1945
Joe, Jerry, and Superman...
Try, try, again...
Onward from Action No. 1...
Enter The Batman...
Here come the heroes...
The Boy Wonder and Green Lantern...
More heroes appear...
War and patriotism...
The superhero rollout continues...
Paper shortages...
End of an Era...
Post-Golden Age...
1945 to 1950
A new era...
Romance comics begin...
Western genre heats up...
Crime comics explode...
The superhero slide continues...
Dark times ahead...
The Silver Era
Pre-Silver Age...
1950 to 1956
Rising from the ashes...
War's rebirth, superheroe's fall...
The Seduction of the Innocent...
The Comic Code...
A new era begins...
The Silver Age
1956 to 1969
Introducing the Flash...
Marvel almost goes under...
The DC Renaissance...
Atom, JLA, Aquaman and more...
The Marvel Age of Comics...
Superheroes roll on...
Silver Age curtain begins to close...
Post-Silver Age
1970 to 1980
A time for change...
Drugs, The Code, and price increases...
Punisher, X-Men, & Wolverine...
New titles, Xovers, & publishers...
And then there were two...
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