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The Silver Age of comic books is a term that refers to a amount of time amid 1956 and the early 1970s. It’s characterized by the resurgence of super-hero comics, a re-interpretation of Golden Age heroes, growingly outlandish storylines, and the debut of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics as a major strength in comic book publishing. Frederic Wertham’s book, Seduction of the Innocent and the Comics Code Authority that came as a response to it in the early 1950s torpedoed EC Comics and set exceedingly tight limits in what could be included in a comic book. Super-heroes were out of fashion, but westerns, romances and war comics were on the decline as well. Most scholars agree that the Silver Age begins with Showcase #4 and The Flash. During the Golden Age, The Flash was Jay Garrick, a football star. The new Flash introduced in Showcase #4 was Barry Allen, police forensic scientist. The success of the reputation led DC Comics Editor Julius Schwartz to spearhead a venture to revamp a lot of of the Golden Age heroes. A major characteristic of these heroes was that they were often times based in science fiction, whereas their predecessors were either based in fantasy, science fantasy or just superb athletes: Green Lantern was a test pilot who became a fellow member of an intergalactic peace-keeping force; Hawkman and Hawkgirl were alien police officers trapped on Earth; The Atom was a college professor who had a fragment of a dwarf star in his hand that gave him the capacity to change his size or mass. A new team, the Legion of Super-Heroes travels back in time from the 30st century to recruit Superboy to their team. DC did so well with their revamps and science fiction heroes, that rival publisher Martin Goodman asked Stanley “Stan Lee” Lieber to fabricate a team of super-heroes to compete. What he and Jack Kirby came up with was The Fantastic Four in 1961. The creation and style of Marvel Comics begins the slow decline of DC’s Silver Age mentality in favor of a more “realistic” tone in Marvel’s comics: The Fantastic Four’s Thing was a monster, Spider-Man was a science nerd driven by the murder of his uncle and reviled by all of New York City, and the X-Men were misfits who were hated by the very humans they were vowed to protect. Nobody got along, and some heroes were just plain unhappy. But their troubles were much having little impact to relate to than what practical joke Superman was going to play on Lois Lane this month. There is no consensus on when the Silver Age ended and the Bronze Age began, but there were assorted things that happened in the early 1970s:
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