From a letter by M.K. Tomashevsky of Rochester NY in Jimmy Olsen #133 (Oct. 1970):
When people ask me when the Silver Age ended, I usually tell them Jimmy Olsen #133, when Jack Kirby jumped the rails (Marvel's and the usual metaphor's) and started on his Fourth World series. So is this reader completely missing the point of the Silver Age with his question, or were readers simply ahead by a few months?
In other words, did the Silver Age end... on demand?
When people ask me when the Silver Age ended, I usually tell them Jimmy Olsen #133, when Jack Kirby jumped the rails (Marvel's and the usual metaphor's) and started on his Fourth World series. So is this reader completely missing the point of the Silver Age with his question, or were readers simply ahead by a few months?In other words, did the Silver Age end... on demand?
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I've been reading a bunch of old Silver Age X-Men issues lately, complete with the letter pages, and I love these kind of random "wait a minute..." letters that, even back then, pointed out some of the Silver Age's ridiculousness.