The Defenders had run for about two years before Gerber took over scripting chores, and I don’t intend to review those early issues here. By that Wikipedia definition, Gerber’s Defenders is the soul of the Bronze Age. Never has this definition been more on-target than in Steve Gerber‘s run on The Defenders. That same Wikipedia listing notes that Bronze Age books feature “… darker plot elements and more socially-relevant storylines … featuring real-world issues, such as drug use, alcoholism, and environmental pollution …” and while I didn’t think much of it at the time, I have found some truth in this as I’ve revisited my Bronze Age books these past six months. A check of the worth-what-you-paid-for-it listing at Wikipedia revealed that the “Bronze Age” runs from 1970 to 1985 - which almost exactly overlaps the majority of my comics collection - and so, bingo, Longbox Graveyard was a Bronze Age comics blog. All I knew was that I had a pile of old books that I needed to catalog and appreciate. When I began Longbox Graveyard I’d never heard of the Bronze Age of comics.
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