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Elements and Styles of A Golden Age Supers Campaign

Started by RPGPundit, July 26, 2010, 06:20:17 AM

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Lurkndog

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December 16, 2023, 10:17:50 AM Last Edit: December 16, 2023, 10:24:00 AM by Lurkndog
Also, regarding the Golden Age versus the Silver Age, I think one of the defining points of the Golden Age is the lack of political subtext, apart from "Let's win World War 2."

The heavy use of political metaphor in X-Men is definitely a silver age thing. So is Dennis O'Neill's use of contemporary political/social issues in Green Arrow/Green Lantern.

Spider-man's emphasis on Peter Parker's real life struggles is also very much a silver age thing, it was groundbreaking at the time.

Golden Age storylines tended to be much simpler "hero/heroine fights crooks/nazis" type things. They also tended to be very short by modern standards, taking up maybe 8-10 pages, but sometimes only 3-4.

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