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Post by gothos on May 18, 2014 18:04:34 GMT -5
Interesting, so DC just before the Silver age was specifically AGAINST having a cohesive universe. I guess that part of Stan Lee's (or perhaps, more correctly, Roy Thomas') vision was spot on.. I'm guessing DC was still targeting the very young, trying to capture new reads as they 'age in', while Marvel was trying to keep though readers as they got older. Makes me wonder what the industry would look like today if DC's model won out. There might not even be an industry any more had it continued to cater the youngest readers. I recall an observation by a DC insider to the effect that when comics jumped from12 cents to fifteen, it just about killed the market for romance and teen humor comics. Adults might foot the bill for all sorts of prose entertainment and (in later eras) even tapes and DVDs to feed a child's imagination, but I suspect most kids had only very limited resources-- allowances, chore money-- with which to buy comics. Had Weisinger been allowed to stay in the industry another five years, I think he would've found that his "turnover" idea had reached the point of no "re-turnover." |
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Post by the4thpip on May 19, 2014 2:17:41 GMT -5
No, just interviews he's given. He's mentioned he was told that children and illiterate adults were the only people reading comics. Oddly, National published some of the Superman comics in simplified text version for the American armed forces. If expectations of the audience were that low anyway, why did they have to "dumb down" the scripts for soldiers? |
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