What is the 'Atom Age' of comic books?

What is the 'Atom Age' of comic books?

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The Atom Age of comic books then follows the Golden Age, as World War II generation transitions back here into the United States, and tastes are starting to change. They're starting to switch away from superheroes into more romance novels and science fiction, as the atomic bomb comes into play. And that age will last approximately, say, from the late 1940s, 46, 49, to about 1956.