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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9227788" data-attributes="member: 7034611">No idea, when was the golden age of comics and TV? assume it probably meets both of them, i.e. they had a lot of viewers / readers, and also made decent money off of those.Wikipedia says 1938 - 56 for comics, with the end coming when the US senate started some investigation, claiming that comic books resulted in illegal behavior of minors, resulting in a lot of comics being cancelled. To me that does sound like a drop in readers and income was the result.As far as TV is concerned, Wikipedia has several golden ages, the first being 1947 - 60, based on there being a lot of live shows (as opposed to taped ones). With that age ending as that changed and the quality generally declined (according to Wikipedia).&quot;In November 1960, Weaver commented on the end of the Golden Age of Television in The Denver Post, saying: &quot;Television has gone from about a dozen forms to just two – news shows and the Hollywood stories.&quot; seems to match my 'lots of supplements' criteria pretty well, if not in number, then in variety.Wikipedia also has a second golden age in the 80s/90s and a third beginning in 1999 with The Sopranos and ending in the late 2010s (or early 2020s) - or combining the second and third into one long golden age. This seems to reflect the viewership / monetary angle pretty well</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mamba, post: 9227788, member: 7034611"] No idea, when was the golden age of comics and TV? assume it probably meets both of them, i.e. they had a lot of viewers / readers, and also made decent money off of those. Wikipedia says 1938 - 56 for comics, with the end coming when the US senate started some investigation, claiming that comic books resulted in illegal behavior of minors, resulting in a lot of comics being cancelled. To me that does sound like a drop in readers and income was the result. As far as TV is concerned, Wikipedia has several golden ages, the first being 1947 - 60, based on there being a lot of live shows (as opposed to taped ones). With that age ending as that changed and the quality generally declined (according to Wikipedia). "In November 1960, Weaver commented on the end of the Golden Age of Television in [I]The Denver Post[/I], saying: "Television has gone from about a dozen forms to just two – news shows and the Hollywood stories." seems to match my 'lots of supplements' criteria pretty well, if not in number, then in variety. Wikipedia also has a second golden age in the 80s/90s and a third beginning in 1999 with The Sopranos and ending in the late 2010s (or early 2020s) - or combining the second and third into one long golden age. This seems to reflect the viewership / monetary angle pretty well [/QUOTE]

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