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Fringe theories

One editor had taken it upon himself/herself to present fringe theories espoused by a couple of mostly amateur, fan historians. Things like the so-called Copper Age and Atom Age are not used in mainstream comics scholarship, and to present them as established terms is completely misleading. These are fringe notions, and if they're included at all, it needs to be in a section specifically framing them as fringe. And we certainly can't give them the wildly undue weight they were given. --2604:2000:1382:C5DD:C101:1C49:1BAD:27F5 (talk) 05:31, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have to contest the claim that Shirrel Rhoades citing Steve Geppi (Rhoades 2008, p. 71) is a non-notable inclusion in a paragraph containing alternative periodization schemes. As for the Atom Age, it appears in William W. Savage, Commies, Cowboys, and Jungle Queens: Comic Books and America, 1945–1954, Wesleyan University Press, 1998, p. 111. --Omnipaedista (talk) 16:46, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]