Golden Age
Era of innocence
When capitalized, Golden Age typically refers to a specific historical period of cultural flourishing, most often the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century or the Golden Age of Greece in the 5th century BCE.
In American comics, the Golden Age designates the era from the late 1930s through the early 1950s when Superman, Batman, and other iconic superheroes first appeared. (Lowercase golden age refers to any peak period.)
Greece's capital city
- PericlesFifth-century Athenian statesman
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
European cultural reawakening
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
masterpiece · genius · literary · canon · legacy
American film industry center
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
Seventeenth-century Dutch painter
- VermeerBaroque Dutch painter
- AmsterdamCapital of Netherlands
- NetherlandsNorthwestern European constitutional monarchy
- 17th centuryYears 1601-1700
Sequential art medium
- superheroesCostumed figures with powers
- SupermanMetropolis's flying defender
- BatmanGotham's masked vigilante
- DCUnidirectional electrical flow
1930s · 1940s · 1950s · pulp · Action Comics
Peacefully prosperous era
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- idyllicPerfectly peaceful and charming
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
romanticized · perfection · bliss · serenity · harmony · pastoral · purity · tranquility
Athens
Greece's capital city
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
patronage · masterpiece · genius · literary · canon · legacy
Hollywood
American film industry center
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
Rembrandt
Seventeenth-century Dutch painter
- VermeerBaroque Dutch painter
- AmsterdamCapital of Netherlands
- NetherlandsNorthwestern European constitutional monarchy
17th century · painting · trade · maritime · guild
comics
Sequential art medium
- superheroesCostumed figures with powers
- SupermanMetropolis's flying defender
- BatmanGotham's masked vigilante
halcyon
Peacefully prosperous era
nostalgia · romanticized · perfection · bliss · serenity · harmony · pastoral · purity · tranquility · innocence
- Historical AgesNeolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Chalcolithic, Medieval
- Golden Age SpainSiglo de Oro, Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Philip II
- Comic Book Eras
- HesiodTheogony
- Spanish theatercomedia, auto sacramental, Don Juan, loa, Calderon
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era