ABSTRACT
Michael Uslan traces the phrase “Silver Age of Comics” back to the letters column of Justice League of America no. 42 (February 1966), in which Scott Taylor of Westport, Connecticut wrote, “If you guys keep bringing back the heroes from the Golden Age, people 20 years from now will be calling this decade the Silver Sixties!”:
Fans immediately glommed onto this, rening it more directly into a Silver Age version of the Golden Age. Very soon, it was in our vernacular, replacing such expressions as Jerry Bails’ ponderous “Second Heroic Age of Comics” or “The Modern Age” of comics. It wasn’t too long before dealers were differentiating their sale of, say, Green Lantern #3 by specifying it was a Golden Age comic for sale or a Silver Age comic for sale.
