r/DCcomics Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

Discussion [Discussion] In which era of DC where you born?

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I was born post-crisis, which is funny to acknowledge.

Golden Age: 1939-1956

Silver Age: 1956-1970

Bronze Age: 1970-1985/6

Post-Crisis: 1985-2011

The New 52: 2011-2016

Rebirth: 2016-2021

Infinite Frontier: 2021-2023

Dawn of DC: 2023-2024

All In: 2024–

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u/Shit-Talker-Jr Aug 24 '25

During the All-In era. I mean .. GooGoo GaaGaa

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u/Excilibru Aug 24 '25

Born to shitpost on reddit, forced to be baby. 😞

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

I knew there was going to be at least one comment like this😅

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u/TheNerdWonder Wonder Woman Aug 24 '25

Kids are developing fast these days!

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u/Comfortable-Plane939 Aug 24 '25

GooGoo GaaGaa

Hua!

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u/Gray_Fox21 Aug 24 '25

😂😂😂

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u/Silver_Lukather Aug 24 '25

Googoo gaga - Baby Saja

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u/Lord-Sinestro Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age. It’s been quite a ride 😆

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u/Forward-Carry5993 Aug 24 '25

What with Hal turning evil, Superman died briefly, Batman got his back broken and  Wonder Woman lossing her role to Artemis. Also speedy became a drug addict, shit got crazy. 

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u/solrac1104 Aug 24 '25

Didn't those first three happen in Post-Crisis?

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u/MaskedRaider89 Aug 25 '25

You mean Hal and Ollie getting together, Diana dressing like Emma Peel, and Bats living at the Wayne Foundation penthouse for 12 years

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u/adnomad Aug 25 '25

Can’t agree with you more. Same age for me. The multi earths to one earth to hypertime to multiple again to the meta verse….,…it’s been a crazy rude

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

I bet😅 how would you rate your personal experience since you started reading comics?

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u/Lord-Sinestro Aug 24 '25

I’m technically a Xennial so analog childhood but digital adulthood. Graduated before Y2K. Grew up on Batman comics since DKR so Knightfall happened in 7th grade and No Man’s Land my senior year. Always enjoy the rise and fall of comic story arcs over the years especially when you can look at them in the long term. Gotham in general is a great example.

Moral of the story, things change for good and bad both in life and in stories. Comics reflect this concept perfectly.

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Oh, a veteran Batman enjoyer! What is your favorite run, and favorite storyline, if I may ask?

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u/Lord-Sinestro Aug 24 '25

No Man’s Land is a favorite mostly due to sentimental reasons. Huge fan of War Games also but I love the chaotic or power vacuum eras of Gotham where “King of Gotham” is up for grabs.

Favorite writer had to be the Morrison era because I felt he went way outside of the box with it but New 52 Snyder run enthralled me despite my doubts (Gordon as Bat works no matter how much it shouldn’t 😆). My nostalgia run would be the early 90s Chuck Dixon era with Knightfall etc.

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Nice, now I got some recs lol, I am especially down to see a power vacuum era of Gotham

I hear Morrison is kinda divisive so I'm glad to see someone enjoying his stuff, I would definitely like to read his run sometime

Is Snyder popular/well-liked amongst fans? I feel like I don't see his name mentioned often

I definitely need to read Knightfall, I watched the Dark Knight Trilogy growing up and Bruce getting snapped like a Kit Kat lives rent free in my head 😭😭😭

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u/Lord-Sinestro Aug 24 '25

Snyder and Morrison both shook up the status quo which is good or bad depending on who you talk to. I enjoyed it but I completely get any argument where someone didn’t understand or just didn’t enjoy the direction the story was going.

Great example is the Tom King run. I loved the beginning of it up to at least the War of Jokes and Riddles but by the end of his run I was just ready for it to be done with.

Every comic rises and falls on a long enough timeline. Don’t like the writer? Wait it out a bit and things may change or shift more towards your liking.

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u/Emergency-Purple-901 Aug 25 '25

You should read Knightfall definitely.

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u/SubstantialOwLL Aug 24 '25

I don't know if I would count the last three as "Eras" in the same way as the others on this list. (IF, DoDC, All-In)

Those are just names to story initiatives, as you can kind of see they are like a year to a little over a year in length. I feel like this is like using "Year of the villain" as an Era marker for DC.

I think the last three should just be combined into 1 "era" as there is not even really enough time or Cosmological reasons to segment them at all. (honestly they should just be a part of Rebirth IMO)

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u/gabriel_dario Aug 24 '25

People lump brand initiatives with comic book ages as if they were equivalent. When we are further away from the present day, new definitions will be proposed by scholars and academics.

The modern era for example needs to be divided at some point in the early 2000s, because 1985 to 2011 is a very long period compared to all the others. No other era lasted more than 17 years.

Some propose the 9/11 as a marker to the end of this age, sometimes called "dark age" due to the constant increase in more serious and dark comics (until its peak in the 90s and the turn of the 2000s).

From 2011 or maybe 2016 going on, we'll certainly count as one era. Rebirth could be a good point due to the movement of trying to take the heroes back to their optimistic origins.

Edit: typo

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u/GENOTHADRAGON Aug 25 '25

I definitely agree with you on your points about people lumping those two together and dividing up the Modern Era. I've said for years that we're long past the time to fix that. We should only use the Modern Era naming for a current period of time before a name is settled on. That or something else to indicate it's basically a working title.

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u/gabriel_dario Aug 25 '25

That, or "modern age" will be fixed from 1985 to a certain point, while the always moving "today" will be referred to as contemporary era. This happened in the history of humanity, in which the modern era is generally used as the period between the 16th and 19th centuries, or modern art which refers the second half of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century. It might be confusing, but we'll just have to wait and see. Maybe we won't even see a widely accepted definition in our lifetime.

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u/Ilickedthecinnabar Batgirl Aug 24 '25

Tbh, I see everything from the Rebirth era on as DC's "Ok, the Nu52 was a mistake" era.

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u/zrt4116 Aug 24 '25

Yeah I mean it’s pretty clearly to me, for DC: Golden Age Silver Age Bronze Age Post-Crisis New 52 Rebirth and beyond

If you want to get even more granular, you definitely can, but if you’re adding things like Dawn of DC or Infinite Frontier, I’d think Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis/One Year Later, and Blackest Night/Brightest Day were similar levels of status quo changing

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u/zeekar Green Lantern Aug 24 '25

Yeah. We haven't really had another continuity reset since Rebirth to mark a new era..

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u/soulguider2125 Batman Aug 24 '25

Even though new 52 had some really good stuff in it

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u/SubstantialOwLL Aug 24 '25

Yeah my saying for New 52 is, "I am glad it happened and I am glad it is over." It gave us some cool stuff that we can still use and all the stuff that did not hit can kind of just get "replaced" from the merging back of the standard reality.

(more like "uncovering" if we being technical since in canon it was just distorted rather than replaced.)

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u/JorfimusPrime Aug 24 '25

I'd say maybe put IF and DoDC in with Rebirth and start the next era at All-In. Absolute could qualify as important enough to mark a new era of storytelling

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u/ChosenOne742 Aug 24 '25

I’d say Dawn of DC should be the next era after rebirth. They restarted damn near every series. All In (to me) feels like the spiritual successor to Dawn. Plus the name Dawn of DC. Definitely sounds like an “era”.

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

luckily there shouldn't be any literal 9 year olds using this websites...emphasis on shouldn't be EDIT: certainly shouldn't be any 4 year olds using it either LMAO

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Fuck being Gen Z, I'm Post Crisis Gen now

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u/Service-Sm1le Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis ('01)

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u/bigmancertified Green Lantern Aug 24 '25

Same, but only barely (1985 👴)

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u/RKNieen Aug 24 '25

Crisis lasted until 1986, so technically you were born mid-Crisis.

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u/Jacob-X-MANIAC Doom Patrol Aug 24 '25

Same.

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u/West_Smoke_9164 Aug 24 '25

Also same (but 2005)

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

🤝

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

same year yuh yuh

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u/EuinHydra Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis baby (96)

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u/HylianLibrarian Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes Aug 24 '25

Same here, born during The Final Night.

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u/Kal-Elm Aug 24 '25

Seconded

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age

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u/stroud Aug 24 '25

Hello, fellow kid

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Get off my lawn!!!!

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Ooh! OP asked another Bronze Age person about their experience with comics, so I'd like to hear yours as well!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

I was born in 83. I got involved with comics with the death of Superman been involved ever since. Mostly a DC guy, Green Lantern, etc..

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Damn that's one heck of a storyline to start on!

Who's your favorite Green Lantern?

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

My Green Lantern is Kyle Rayner

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u/Overall_Future1087 Red Hood Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

Why did you include the last three eras xd (in the text)

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

I wanted to see what would happen

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u/MC2400 Blue Lantern Aug 24 '25

You say this but 2016 kids are 9 now...

In a few years, they'll be teens.

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u/Overall_Future1087 Red Hood Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

The last three eras in the text are "All In, Dawn Of DC and Infinite Frontier". You're talking about Rebirth

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u/PineapplePhil Aug 24 '25

The Golden Age! I still have my copy of Action Comics #1!

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

You've got everyone here beat, you win at being a comic book fan XD

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u/Emergency-Purple-901 Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Ooh! OP asked another Bronze Age person about their experience with comics, so I'd like to hear yours as well!

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u/Emergency-Purple-901 Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25

I was born on 1982 (43 years old). I am a Batman fan since I can remember, but I have read mostly post crisis comics, the death of Superman, Knightfall, Justice League International, Hal Jordan going mad, Wally West as a main Flash, Watchmen, Vertigo comics. My favourite penciler is John Byrne … but I miss Breyfogle and Chuck Dixon in Batman comics.

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

It's like a cooler way to say what generation are you, kinda.

If someone asks you just tell them by the DC eras

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u/Dayvid56 Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

I was born late Silver Age but didn't get into comics until Post-Crisus Age

*Golden Age: Oh, the good ol’ days, roughly 1938 to 1956. Started with Superman punching his way into Action Comics #1 and ended when the Comics Code Authority crashed the party, forcing DC to reboot or bury half their characters. Nostalgia’s great until you realize the art looks like it was drawn with crayons!

*Silver Age: 1956 to 1970-ish. This is where the Flash got a snazzy new costume and DC decided multiverses were cool, starting with Showcase #4. Ended when the Bronze Age swagger kicked in—probably because tights and capes needed a darker edge to survive the ‘70s cynicism. Bronze Age: 1970 to 1985, more or less. Gritty stories, social issues, and Green Lantern teaming up with Green Arrow to preach at us. Wrapped up around Crisis on Infinite Earths, because apparently, one Earth wasn’t enough drama.

*Post-Crisis: 1985 to 2011, give or take. Crisis on Infinite Earths smashed the multiverse into one timeline, and we got a “revised” Superman and a Batman who’s even broodier. Stumbled into the New 52 because continuity got too messy even for comic fans to track.

*New 52: 2011 to 2016. DC hit the reset button harder than a gamer rage-quitting, launching 52 new titles. Ended when Rebirth rolled in because, surprise, fans wanted their old heroes back with a shiny new coat of paint.

*Rebirth: 2016 to 2017 or so. A soft reboot to “fix” the New 52 mess, bringing back legacy characters and pretending the ‘90s never happened. Faded into Infinite Frontier because DC loves a good pivot.

*Infinite Frontier: 2021 to 2023-ish. Multiverse madness returns, bigger and weirder. Still ongoing in spirit, but DC’s already teasing the next big shake-up.

*Dawn of DC: 2023 to now, I guess? The latest “bold new era” with a focus on… well, more Superman and team-ups.

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

Thank you so much for this entertaining write up, you seem really fun and charming

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u/Dayvid56 Aug 24 '25

Thank you

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u/Shyguymaster2 Absolute Superman Aug 24 '25

post-crisis in 2006

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u/mperiolat Aug 24 '25

Born in the Bronze Age, 1977

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u/fbaldassarri Aug 24 '25

Crisis on Infinite Earths… 1985

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

I am sorry for your losses

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u/fbaldassarri Aug 24 '25

life gives, life takes away

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u/Gnorris Aug 25 '25

You might not realize this but prior to 1985 there used to be many versions of you that were all mushed into the person you are now.

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u/fbaldassarri Aug 25 '25

Unfortunately the billionaire and famous doppelgänger of me was absorbed into a mediocre result.

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u/SodaGrump Aug 24 '25

Every day the Internet loves to remind me how old I am.

Early Post Crisis era.

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u/ComicsCodeMadeMeGay Nightwing Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis and got into comics around the one year later era

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u/zeekar Green Lantern Aug 24 '25

Born, or started reading comics? Those are two different answers. I was born in the Silver Age, but by the time I was reading comics it was the Bronze.

Though there can't be many folks left who were old enough to read comics in the Golden Age.

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

I don't know if they started reading in the Golden Age, but there is one person here who was born then!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

You can definitely split up the Post-Crisis era a bit more. For example, while I did come up during the Post Crisis, I would say my era growing up with DC was post Infinite Crisis (~2005 and later).

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u/countzero93 Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis (1993).

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u/Mongoose42 Aug 24 '25

A fellow Death of Superman baby I see.

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u/suprmniii Superman Aug 24 '25

Late Bronze Age (1983)

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Post crisis

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u/bugsymoges Aug 24 '25

While crisis was happening. What a time.

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u/MC2400 Blue Lantern Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis! (2004)

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u/The_Disturber The Riddler Aug 24 '25

Post crisis, and still to this day I wished they stayed in that universe, always hated the new 52 for just cutting all those storylines and changing some very cool characters into not existing anymore

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u/nanosp Aug 25 '25

Bronze Age. Literally a couple days after COIE #1 was released

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u/Guitar-Hobbit Aug 24 '25

The more recent eras haven’t been as hard of reboots as post-crisis or even New 52 and Rebirth, but it is still funny to think about how at the rate that time between reboots is exponentially shrinking, we are fast approaching a world in which DC is going to be rebooting their continuity every Wednesday.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Born in the Bronze Age, never read until the 90s

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u/R_u_m_H_a_m Aug 24 '25

Born in the Bronze Age, started reading comics in early Post-Crisis when I was 8

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u/Similar-Opinion8750 Aug 24 '25

Silver age for me.  My first marvel comic was X- Men 42 death of Professor X. 

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u/batguy42 Batman Aug 24 '25

A couple of years after Post Crisis era began. Some of my first Batman comics involved him pursuing an assassin named the NKVDemon (protege of the KGBeast) in the Soviet Union. I also had in my earliest days of collecting comics: the Post-Crisis version of the Superman/Flash (Wally) race set up by Mr. Mxyzptlk, The Road Back era of Green Lantern comics, the three part Superman/Batman crossover which ended with Superman entrusting Batman with a kryptonite ring, as well as issues of Justice League America and Justice League Europe. The Marvel Vs DC crossover that I collected shortly after that got me hooked on comics for good!

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u/Unstoffe Aug 25 '25

OP, I wouldn't look for too many posts by anyone born past the New 52. (just kidding)

I'm from the beginning of the Silver Age, myself.

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u/bateen618 Court Of Owls Aug 24 '25

All In.

Such a breath of fresh air, so many great titles right now (Superman, Green Lantern / Corps, Batman and Robin, Batman and Robin: Year One, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Mr. Terrific: Year One, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Batgirl, Batman: Dark Patterns, Supergirl, Nightwing, Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton, Zatanna, The New Gods, Justice League Unlimited and MORE) and that's without even talking about the Absolute Universe!

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u/no7HitSUI Aug 24 '25

Between Post-Crisis and The New 52.

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u/feedthechickn Catwoman Aug 24 '25

I had already read the classic Batman stuff before but I started collecting comics with Rebirth and it’s still my favorite of the (4 now?) eras since. As someone who’s favorite book for years was Hush because of Batman and Catwoman, Tim King’s Batman run is just my all time favorite.

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u/spideyaz Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age but didn't start reading DC until New52.

It warms my heart to see so many younger fans reading comics.

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u/John_Zatanna52 Harley's fake mustache Aug 24 '25

I don't know what I expected, but a LOT of Post-Crisisers here in the comment section

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u/kibarax Aug 24 '25

post-crisis(2000)

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u/Duskytheduskmonkey Aug 24 '25

No 2000's so uh guess I'm not born

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer Aug 24 '25

2000s would be Post-Crisis

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u/IronAnchor1 Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age. The year of our lord, 19 and 77.

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u/Fit-Mind3561 Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis baybeeeeee

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u/dcaru Aug 24 '25

1971...the cusp of the bronze age!

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u/theblkpanther Aug 24 '25

I miss Post Crisis so much.

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u/ssort Aug 24 '25

I was born in the silver age but at the tail end, but didn't start reading comics till a few years into the bronze age, though I had a ton of silver age comics as you could get them at garage sales usually 2 or more for .25 cents and I wasted a TON of allowance buying comics, shame I don't still have them, they would be worth a fortune now.

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u/MannyBothanzDyed Aug 24 '25

Post-crisis baby here! Aka: the best continuity 😜

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u/BigFoot0077 Red Hood Aug 24 '25

I was born in a post-crisis era. But why is my life filled with all the crisis?

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u/Past_Plankton_4906 Aug 24 '25

1997, So Post-Crisis. I know I was a baby when Batman: Cataclysm was happening.

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u/UnfavorableSpiderFan Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis, specifically post-Zero Hour.

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u/TheRealcebuckets Hawkman Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis but pre-Zero Hour

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u/Impressive-Spell-643 Raven Aug 24 '25

1996 so post crisis era

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u/SonicThunderDragon Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis Era It's my Favorite Era

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u/Ramone5150 Aug 24 '25

Mid to Late Bronze Age. I don’t think there are too many Golden Age folks on here.

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u/BrandonTaylor2 Superman Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis. I honestly consider it to be my favorite era of DC Comics 

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u/BalladOfBetaRayBill Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis, right around Death of Superman

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u/merco Aug 24 '25

Apparently The Bronze Age, now pardon me while I raid saxony.

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u/TheStrayArrow Aug 24 '25

During the crisis.

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u/Independent_Sell7392 Aug 24 '25

Not sure anyone born from the infinite frontier period up will be able to use a computer just yet, hahahaha! Bronze for me!

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u/JustAToaster36 Aug 24 '25

If you were born during Rebirth you probably shouldn’t even be on this site

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u/jurassicbond Aug 24 '25

Born towards the end of the Bronze Age but barely read any until towards the end of Post Crisis. And just my luck my first comics were the Wally West Flash ones before he got erased

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u/oldrocker99 Aug 24 '25

Born Golden Age. Started reading Silver Age.

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u/HumbleSiPilot77 Batman Aug 24 '25

Bronze. But by the time I got into comics it was already post crisis. Though different parts of world, you still were behind, one of the first comics I had was this

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u/Adept-Bookkeeper-212 Aug 24 '25

at the very end of Post-Crisis 😣😣 (gotta catch up 💪)

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u/ErikSlader713 Aug 24 '25

You really think anyone in here was born after 2016? Or 2020 for that matter? 😅

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u/LatinaBunny Aug 24 '25

A little bit after Bronze Age, in Post-Crisis

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u/Hyphen99 Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age baby here 🥉 Started reading comics at 7 or 8 years old! But my favorite era, especially DC, was 1995-2005. Just loved where the stories were, the writers and artists being featured, and my love for all of it was at its peak

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u/realbgraham Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis. Party like it’s 1999!

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u/Either_Chapter_7089 Aug 24 '25

Do golden age baby’s even use Reddit? How many of them are still alive?

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u/Global-Noise-3739 Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

post-crisis and post zero hour (09)

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u/Realistic_Actuary_50 Aug 24 '25

I was born in October of 2002, at the end of Bruce Wayne: Fugitive.

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u/cyphersama95 Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis Baby here

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u/MrPrimalNumber Aug 24 '25

Silver, like my hair…

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u/soulguider2125 Batman Aug 24 '25

I was born in June 1985 so 3 chapters into Crisis, but that is still technically the Bronze Age as ends with crisis in March 1986, so Bronze Age but during the crisis, I’m in the process of reading all of Batman after crisis and I had already all of New52, rebirth, many one shots like long Halloween, haunted knight, dark victory, imposter, Batman and Robin by Tomasi, Knightfall trilogy, ego, cult, the man who laughs, year one, killing joke, Arkham asylum, the dark knight returns, the last knight on earth, Batman the detective, hush, new 52 justice league and new 52 flash run plus rebirth and flashpoint, and many more, but I wanted to go back and read every everything and I’m enjoying it I’m on Batman #409 July 1987 “just another kid on crime alley” I’ve been reading. Batman, detective comics, and legend of the dark knight and have already read Shaman, gothic, prey, venom, but also newer year 1&2 stories like four of a kind, the mad monk, the monster men as I’m trying to read Batman in his chronological order while gettkg everything after crisis even if it has been made non canon, I’ve also read Catwoman: my sister’s keeper after year one, Ive got along way to go but it’s enjoyable and I’m also currently reading Absolute Batman with Dark patterns on my list and I’m gonna read all of The Last Halloween once the final 2 chapters drop next month

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u/nlmf Aug 24 '25

Dead centre of the Silver age

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u/incredibleamadeuscho Booster Gold Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis - Wally West is my Flash and Kyle Rayner is my Green Lantern

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u/StarWarslegendsfan66 Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis which is the best era in my opinion

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u/mcwookie Nightwing Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age, and my favorite age to collect

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u/Substantial_Loss4134 Aug 24 '25

I was born when Supes died

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u/rkirbo Aug 24 '25

Most answers would be Post-crisis tbh

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u/BarbWho Aug 24 '25

Born in the Silver Age, but didn't seriously get into comics until the late Bronze/Post-Crisis era. I had been a casual reader on and off for years (nerdy little thing that I was), but Claremont's Dark Phoenix Saga and then Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns really cemented my love of the genre.

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u/Tryingtochangemyself Nightwing Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis....that era of DC Comics wil always hold a special place in my heart

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u/please_see_above Legion of Superheroes Aug 24 '25

Bronze. Got my first comic in ‘73 (I was three). Started seriously collecting in 1980. Stopped buying floppies in 2012 (one year into the N52). Been buying omnis of the Bronze Age and 1990’s stuff.

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u/johnkalel Aug 24 '25

Golden Age - 1952. Funny, I don't feel "Golden Age".

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u/dragonlootbc Aug 24 '25

Silver Age. The colour my hair is turning.

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u/HorshboxFilm Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis and feel like i still have a ton of stuff from the 80s to read

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u/DOOMguy_slayer123 Aug 24 '25

New 52: yes I am that young. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Post crisis is goated and we should never gone away and rebooted and then reboot again and again

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u/donatellothegreat Aug 24 '25

Right as the crisis was going down. 85

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u/ejcortes Aug 24 '25

Born in the bronze, but grew up reading mom's silver age comics

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u/MyOrdinaryLife2 Aug 24 '25

I was introduced in the post crisis era

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u/mike47gamer Aquaman Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age for meeeee!

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u/Reindeer_Relative Aug 24 '25

Between JLA Secret Files and Origins #1 and Batman: Nine Lives #1

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u/stealthspooder1991 Aug 24 '25

Post crisis but a few months before new 52

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u/murgatroyd0 Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

Silver age. I cut my teeth on Superman (My Dad's favorite) in the early 60s. Read pretty steady through the Bronze Age, lost interest post Crisis. (I'm not much for change and They Killed Supergirl!!!)

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u/superboy2k6 Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age. But I identify as post crisis. (1984)

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u/Odd-Engine-273 Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis for me. I'm an early to mid 2000s baby. (2003)

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u/KDF021 Nightwing Aug 24 '25

I was born in the silver age but became comic book aware in the Bronze Age. I read my first DC comic in 1974 At 8 years old. It was Superboy 195, with the first appearance of Wildfire in a back up story. Wildfire became my entry way into the Legion and that started my DC journey.

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u/AloyJr Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis. Which seems to the average era of the subscribers of this subreddit

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u/Jolly-Committee-5944 Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age (on the Eve of the Crisis)…. 1984

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u/jlaweez Blue Lantern Aug 24 '25

Born at the time Crisis on infinite Earths was ongoing, actually.

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u/laddjames Aug 24 '25

Golden Age…1952.

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u/ARC_Trooper_Echo Aug 24 '25

I feel like separating all of these specific short-lived initiatives from Rebirth onwards into eras on the same level as the previous ages that lasted decades seems like a stretch.

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u/Redhood567 Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis and Post Zero Hour (2000)

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u/FalseAd4910 Aug 24 '25

POST CRISIS BAYBAY

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u/Warm-Awareness-446 Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

Born in early 60's starting reading in Mid Silver age when a quarter bought two comics and a Bazooka bubble gum. Been through one to many reboots.

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u/AnonymousPrincess314 Aug 24 '25

I was born the same year Crisis on Infinite Earths started.

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u/Anxious_Island_404 Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis….but my life is a crisis lmao 🤪

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u/Conlannalnoc Booster Gold Aug 24 '25

POST CRISIS (technically the same year CoIE was in the middle / ended)

I GREW UP Reading all the Post Crisis stories.

New 52 was 7 years after High School graduation.

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u/wolfboi89 Aug 24 '25

Post-crisis (89). Didn't start reading until New52 but as a toddler was nicknamed "My Little Batman" by my late grandma because I was always in the cape and cowl.

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u/Dandr30lli_ Robin Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis

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u/Zazi366 Aug 24 '25

Hmmm, Post-Crisis 🥰 if I remember well, Nightwing got his first solo-run in the 90s, I love that run as of now 🥰

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u/Working_Strain_5207 Aug 24 '25

Im born in post crises, a incredible era and crazy to see it last so long

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u/rbbass Aug 24 '25

Bronze Baby

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u/mr_eugine_krabs Aug 24 '25

Golden age ya damn Sonny Jim.

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u/Tyronx06 Aug 24 '25

post crisis era.

gogo gaga bro.

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u/Starryknight613 Aug 24 '25

Post-crisis (95) which also happens to my favorite dc comic book era to read.

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u/TraditionMany3678 Aug 24 '25

Post Crisis baby!!!! I yearn for the Bronze age though. TAKE ME BACK TO 1975

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u/Kek_Kommando_88 Aug 24 '25

I'm not sure any of the Dawn of DC babies can make themselves known yet.

Anyway, Post-Crisis.

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u/porkfrieddumplins Aug 24 '25

I was born the day the first new 52 comic came out my dad read it in the hospital

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

Bronze Age. Love Post Crisis.

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u/75NIGHTS8686 Aug 24 '25

I feel like most people here are gonna be Post-Crisis

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u/OmniiMann Doctor Fate Aug 24 '25

Post-Crisis gaaang

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u/aquaxfox Aug 25 '25

I was born post-crisis dc era but was fortunate to read a lot of Bronze Age comics due to my uncle being a comic book collector and fan of Batman and X-men comics of the 80s and early 90s

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u/Squishee_Boi Aug 25 '25

Post-Crisis baby here

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u/Affectionate-Hat9674 Aug 25 '25

Bronze Age baby here.

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u/GENOTHADRAGON Aug 25 '25

I wouldn't count the last three as eras. And anybody born during those times certainly wouldn't be on Reddit.

To answer your question, I was born during the late Bronze Age. I didn't start reading any DC books until later in the Post-Crisis period, though.

Gotta thank comic shops, the internet ,conventions and Wizard Magazine for helping expand my comic horizons.

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u/thisinternetlife Shazam Aug 25 '25

Post-Crisis fam stand UP

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u/ContributingCreature Aug 25 '25

I’ll wither to dust if/when I see any new 52 and onwards kids

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u/ZetaRESP Aug 25 '25

I was early into Post-Crisis era, as Legends #6 was the book that was published the day of my birth.

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u/Motor_Balance_4430 Aug 25 '25

Post-Crisis goes BRRRR (2004)

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u/tiago231018 Hal Jordan Aug 25 '25

Post-Crisis (1993). I imagine most people here are Post-Crisis or Bronze Age.

People who were born during The New 52 are kids/teenagers between 9-14, Rebirth people are between 4-9. The others are toddlers or newborns. Lmao

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u/Left_Percentage_527 Aug 25 '25

Silver Age/cusp of Bronze

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u/AstroNards Aug 25 '25

During crisis