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The Bronze Age of Comic Books is an informal
name for the period between the early 1970s and
early 1980s
The 1971 revision to the Comics Code also
relaxed the rules on the use of vampires, ghouls
and werewolves in comic books, allowing the
growth of a number of horror oriented titles,
such as Swamp Thing, Ghost Rider and Tomb of
Dracula.
The Bronze Age retained many of the conventions
of the Silver Age, with brightly colored
superhero titles remaining the mainstay of the
industry. However darker plot elements and more
mature storylines featuring real-world issues,
such as drug use, began to appear during the
period, prefiguring the later Modern Age of
Comic Books.
Instead
a number of events at the beginning of the
1970s, taken together, can be seen as a shift
away from the tone of comics in the previous
decade.
The end of the Bronze Age is debated, and some
do not believe it ended at all.
One commonly used ending point for the Bronze
Age is the 1985-1986 timeframe.
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