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Jan 15 08 8:16 PM
These are all listed as possible ends to the Silver Age:
1. Jack Kirby's departure from Marvel Comics to produce Fourth World titles at DC Comics (1970).
2. The retirement of Mort Weisinger, long-time editor of the Superman family of comics for DC (1970). The Superman titles were then divided among several editors, including Julius Schwartz, Murray Boltinoff, E. Nelson Bridwell, Mike Sekowsky and, briefly, Jack Kirby.
3. The change of rules to the Comics Code Authority which allowed for more controversial topics to be discussed (1971). This led to a wave of horror comics such as Ghost Rider and Tomb of Dracula.
4. When Stan Lee stopped writing for Marvel Comics, at the same time stepping down as Editor-In-Chief (1972).
5. The advent of darker superhero stories in the early 1970s. During this time, Batman returned to his roots as a dubious vigilante, and Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams started the gritty, urban-themed series Green Lantern/Green Arrow.
6. The death of Gwen Stacy, the girlfriend of Peter Parker (Spider-Man) in The Amazing Spider-Man #121 ("The Night Gwen Stacy Died") (1973).
7. The debut of the "All-New All-Different" X-Men in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975), restarting a franchise that would dominate subsequent decades.
8. Adventure Comics #452 (1977), starring Aquaman, where the villain Black Manta kindnaps and murders Aquaman's infant son. I'd never heard about the Aquaman one until recently, it just seems too far into the 70's to be a reasonable cut-off point. I've always thought of Kirby leaving Marvel being the end of the Silver Age, particularly in the way that it shook things up at Marvel at the time. I also like the idea of the transition between old and new X-men being the beginning of the Bronze Age, much like the new Flash marked the beginning of the Silver Age.
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