tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post3811456020828839554..comments2024-03-09T13:14:56.299-08:00Comments on Silver Age Comics: Trivia Quiz #45: AnswersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-46566597693442771822011-11-11T22:16:16.471-08:002011-11-11T22:16:16.471-08:00frasersherman, I think the editors/writers wanted ...frasersherman, I think the editors/writers wanted to have it both ways; they wanted to say their characters were young when it suited them, and yet that they had been around for a long time. In a lot of the cases, we are left assuming that either the girlfriends were much younger or the men couldn't really be that old.<br /><br />Look at Reed and Sue, for example. If we accept that Reed was in his 20s during WWII then that would indicate he had to be pushing 40 by the time the FF got underway. But then how old is Sue? She's got a teenaged brother; is it really likely that she's so much older than him that she's even 30? Possible, certainly, but unlikely.<br /><br />Ditto with Ray and Jean Loring. Assuming she went straight to law school from college, she'd be 25 when starting her law practice; by the time she was 32 surely she'd be established and willing to start a family if she was ever going to do so. So she must be much younger than Ray, right?<br /><br />And yet we never sense that in the relationships between Reed and Sue or Ray and Jean.<br /><br />I think the real issue is just that they never thought that hard about it. These writers and editors were all middle-aged men and for the most part in the 1960s they didn't think of the guys who'd fought in WWII as being middle-aged. Gardner Fox probably thought that a man who graduated in 1954 was quite youthful.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060349239296193385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-13009960624764233912011-11-11T07:02:58.497-08:002011-11-11T07:02:58.497-08:00One thing I've noticed about the Silver Age is...One thing I've noticed about the Silver Age is that nobody had a problem with heroes in their early thirties or even older (given their WW II service, Reed and Ben could have been early 1940s). In contrast to what appears to be the current conviction that new characters won't grab readers unless the characters are twentysomethings or teens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com