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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 282070" data-attributes="member: 3457">Ahhh, four color, that phrase comic afficianadoes use to refer to the classic comics often illustrated by Jack KIrby and other golden and silver age greats. FOur COlor is very much a genre of storytelling. Most often associated with comic strips and books it does indeed refer to the old style printing process but now refers to slam bang action like Flash Gordon, Buck ROgers (originally a pulp character first presented in 1927 in Amazing Stories as ANthony ROgers) and the Golden Age comics like Sandman (Joe SImon and Jack Kirby era), JSA and others. These were the high octane comics where everything was so overly dramatic at times that you couldn't help but gasp. As a genre it refers to Golden Age adventure comics and their modern imitators. Very few Silver Age comics fit the bill, though many of the characters of the Showcase series from DC fit the four color genre, like Adam Strange and Rip Hunter, Time Master. I think a good arguement can be made for Green Lantern Hal Jordan as a four color genre character and definitely the Fantastic Four. To boil it down, FOur Color as a genre refers to cheesecake science fiction.Morrus, may have yerself a problem with the use of the word SUperhero in the title of yer pdf. Marvel and DC COmics own the trademark for the use of the word Superhero in a product intended to generate revenue which is why so many comic compnies have had to come up with new names for their "super heroes" like Ultras or Metahumans. Sad world yes, but hey...Jason</blockquote>

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