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#5806782 - 06/28/12 04:23 PM Official Chromium/Foil age thread. (1990's) Show us your books.
Paper Airplane Paper Airplane FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work. Registered: 02/28/03 Posts: 4276 Loc: Future world champion!	Just thought I'd share. My friends and I have called the post valiant thru late 90's, the foil age. For obvious reasons we call it this. Although campy and sometimes outright absurd, the chrome/silver / gold/red whatever covers (along with countless other gimmicks) have held a special place in our hearts. There are great reads, and rare books. And although I call it the foil age, I personally believe it should be an extension of the copper age. This is why I post this here. If the golden age lasted 20+ years, then why not the copper age? Most of the collectors I know who collect copper books, almost always collect 90's books, as well. I just think of them as the same era. After that, they might as well call it the walking dead era. EDIT: why not just make this the Chromium/ Foil age thread? I put this post here because it would be buried within hours in the modern age arena. The copper age forum needs all the traffic it can get. Edited by Dungeon (07/03/12 12:14 PM) _________________________
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#5806803 - 06/28/12 04:30 PM Re: The foil age [Re: Paper Airplane]
seanfingh seanfingh You earn it. It's like MMA for nerds. TOTAL NEWBIE Registered: 05/15/05 Posts: 31026 Loc: Butthurt Has No Expiration Dat...	There are several of the enhanced books that I just love, but the champ of them all is Silver Surfer 50. I loved the Thanos run from 34 - up and was completely caught up in the late 80's early 90's love affair with reviving Bronze 3rd tier characters. That book will always be awesome to me. _________________________
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#5806808 - 06/28/12 04:31 PM Re: The foil age [Re: Paper Airplane]
DiceX DiceX PREMATURE TOTAL NEWBIFICATION TOTAL NEWBIE Registered: 02/23/03 Posts: 36508 Loc: Baking cookies of discontent.	Chromium Age _________________________
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#5806826 - 06/28/12 04:35 PM Re: The foil age [Re: DiceX]
dupont2005 dupont2005 TOTAL NEWBIE Registered: 10/21/09 Posts: 7323 Loc: Southern California	To me, that's when the Copper Age ended. I love CA comics because they focused on stories, not gimmicks and variants. That practice is still in play today, just substitute gold foil for a blank cover. So to me they are moderns. Edited by dupont2005 (06/28/12 04:35 PM) _________________________
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#5806865 - 06/28/12 04:43 PM Re: The foil age [Re: dupont2005]
seanfingh seanfingh You earn it. It's like MMA for nerds. TOTAL NEWBIE Registered: 05/15/05 Posts: 31026 Loc: Butthurt Has No Expiration Dat...	Originally Posted By: dupont2005 To me, that's when the Copper Age ended. I love CA comics because they focused on stories, not gimmicks and variants. I agree with this, looking back. But at the time it was all just happening, and it was hard not to get sucked into the mentality that comics were just going to keep becoming more and more popular. It looks very pollyanna-ish now, but at the time there was such an energy and an atmosphere that the sky was the limit as to the mainstreaming and ubiquitousness of comics. But really it was just the profiteers and speculators feasting until there was no meat left on the carcass. _________________________
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#5807182 - 06/28/12 05:50 PM Re: The foil age [Re: seanfingh]
Paper Airplane Paper Airplane FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work. Registered: 02/28/03 Posts: 4276 Loc: Future world champion!	I didn't particularly care for some of the gimmicky books, but it was a fun extension of my collecting days. I just use the foil age moniker instead of "90's books" to categorize my collection. I think most won't agree with my linking the copper age with 90's books, but it's cool to hear different point of views. _________________________
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#5807296 - 06/28/12 06:12 PM Re: The foil age [Re: DiceX]
AGGIEZ AGGIEZ Did you really just "Funny post" your own post? TOTAL NEWBIE Registered: 02/09/08 Posts: 6586 Loc: Steel City	Originally Posted By: DiceX Chromium Age +1. _________________________ WANTED: XMEN #1, Detective Comics #225, Superboy #68 My Kudos My beautiful Heshka art
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#5807837 - 06/28/12 08:14 PM Re: The foil age [Re: dupont2005]
joe_collector joe_collector Ok ok. JC Superstar. But only because he martyred his ID. TOTAL NEWBIE Registered: 08/21/02 Posts: 34993 Loc: Titan	Originally Posted By: dupont2005 To me, that's when the Copper Age ended. I love CA comics because they focused on stories, not gimmicks and variants. Yep, the day this comic appeared, Copper officially ended:
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#5808050 - 06/28/12 09:06 PM Re: The foil age [Re: seanfingh]
nickwire nickwire Chatzilla Registered: 10/25/06 Posts: 2296 Loc: niagara falls	Originally Posted By: seanfingh There are several of the enhanced books that I just love, but the champ of them all is Silver Surfer 50. I loved the Thanos run from 34 - up and was completely caught up in the late 80's early 90's love affair with reviving Bronze 3rd tier characters. That book will always be awesome to me. agree totally, this should get classic cover designation in OS if they do that for moderns _________________________ addicted to jones soda....cream soda is scary good http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=42261 LEAVE ME FEEDBACK IF I BUY FROM YOU PLEASE< GET ME SOME SWEET STREET CRED http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubb...rue#Post4685969 always looking for IRON MAIDEN items always looking for FELIX POTVIN items always looking for ARCHIE related books and HALLOWEEN and CHRISTMAS covers always looking for MATTHEW KIRSCHT postcards, art, books etc etc
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#5808076 - 06/28/12 09:13 PM Re: The foil age [Re: joe_collector]
Paper Airplane Paper Airplane FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work. Registered: 02/28/03 Posts: 4276 Loc: Future world champion!	Originally Posted By: joe_collector Originally Posted By: dupont2005 To me, that's when the Copper Age ended. I love CA comics because they focused on stories, not gimmicks and variants. Yep, the day this comic appeared, Copper officially ended: Only 9.6's? You're slippin' dude. _________________________
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