Editing Silver Age of Comic Books (section)

==Origin of the term==
Comics historian and movie producer [[Michael Uslan]] traces the origin of the "Silver Age" term to the [[Comic book letter column|letters column]] of ''Justice League of America'' #42 (February 1966), which went on sale December 9, 1965.<ref name="ae">''Alter Ego'' vol. 3, #54 (November 2005), p. 79</ref> Letter-writer Scott Taylor of Westport, Connecticut, wrote: "If you guys keep bringing back the heroes from the [1930s–1940s] Golden Age, people 20 years from now will be calling this decade the Silver Sixties!"<ref name="ae"/> According to Uslan, the natural hierarchy of gold-silver-bronze, as in [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals, took hold: "Fans immediately glommed onto this, refining it more directly into a ''Silver'' Age version of the Golden Age. Very soon, it was in our vernacular, replacing such expressions as ... 'Second Heroic Age of Comics' or 'The Modern Age' of comics. It wasn't long before dealers were ... specifying it was a Golden Age comic for sale or a Silver Age comic for sale."<ref name="ae"/>