The 630 entries below represent all the public domain characters introduced during the Atomic Age (1945-1963), in stories set contemporaneously. This period saw many more stories set in eras before or after the Atomic Age, where they have been sorted. Many belong to The Future. As usual, while there are plenty of Atomic-powered characters, there are just as many of the non-Atomic-themed variety.
| Era Atomic Age (1945 – 1963) |
| Alternative Names Eisenhower Era, Post-War Realism, Post War Boom, Nifty Fifties |
| Total Entries 630 |
| Articles Comics and the atomic bomb from 1945 to 1955 – The Comics Journal Andy’s Atomic Adventures – Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blog An End to History: Science Fiction in the Nuclear Age – The Johns Hopkins Magazine (March 1977) |
| Description The 630 entries below represent all the public domain characters introduced during the Atomic Age (1945-1963), in stories set contemporaneously. This period saw many more stories set in eras before or after the Atomic Age, where they have been sorted. Many belong to The Future. As usual, while there are plenty of Atomic-powered characters, there are just as many of the non-Atomic-themed variety.
The phrase Atomic Age was coined by William L. Laurence, a journalist with The New York Times, who wrote a series of articles extolling the virtues of the [atomic bomb]. His reporting helped to spur public awareness of the potential of nuclear technology and in part motivated its development. In 1949, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission chairman, David Lilienthal stated that “atomic energy is not simply a search for new energy, but more significantly a beginning of human history in which faith in knowledge can vitalize man’s whole life”. The phrase gained popularity as a feeling of nuclear optimism emerged in the 1950s in which it was believed that all power generators in the future would be atomic in nature. There would be an age of peace and plenty… By the 1960s the threats posed by nuclear weapons had begun to edge out nuclear power as the dominant motif of the atom… ~ Atomic Age – Wikipedia
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