Does another "age" name have to be inserted after Golden Age

[profpike]

So, we all know that the Golden Age was all about the Birth of Comics that ran from roughly 1931-1945. We then have "The Bronze Age" beginning in 1956. But comics didn't die-they just shifted away from superheroes a bit. Is there another name that can be appended to this age?

[Yoc]

BIP Comics has something along this line here -
http://www.bipcomics.com/showcase/docs/ages.php

[JonTheScanner]

So, we all know that the Golden Age was all about the Birth of Comics that ran from roughly 1931-1945. We then have "The Bronze Age" beginning in 1956. But comics didn't die-they just shifted away from superheroes a bit. Is there another name that can be appended to this age?

That's the Silver-Age beginning in 1956 with the revival of Flash in Showcase (as it's usually dated).  The Bronze Age I've seen various dates for either keying on the "horror" revival or the X-men revival and New Teen Titans. 

I've heard the 1945- period called the Atomic Age.

[tilliban]

Some use the term "Platinum Age" for pre-Superman comic books...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book

And I think there's a term missing for that post-superhero period from 1946-1955.
The boom age of genres.
Ah, what's in a name?

[John C]

I'm a fan of the Comics Code model (give or take a few years), myself, especially since a lot of companies (especially when dealing with superheroes) seemed to try to expand or rebuild their titles at around the same times.

I mean, you figure in the years leading up to 1970, Charlton and Tower had their heydays, DC tried to reorganize/reboot almost all its heroes, Marvel starts sort of a villain focus and Spider-Man and the X-Men have overhauls, there's an explosion of horror comics, and so on and so forth, plus the Comics Code gets revised.  With all that going on, it's a pretty darn good signpost.