What is the 'modern' or 'Copper Age' of comic books?

What is the 'modern' or 'Copper Age' of comic books?

Mark Zaid (Owner of Esquire Comics) gives expert video advice on: Why do collectors refer to the specific era of a comic book?; What is the most sought after era of comic books? and more...

The modern or copper age is the age that we're in now, until somebody creates a new age to say when this age ended. And this is starting out in the early 1980s. Here you see a transition very much in the graphic depiction of characters. It certainly becomes a lot more prurient, a lot more sexual, back into these different versions of now what we see in our own society. Each of these ages is very reflective of what each society in generation is going through. So you can imagine, knowing what we go through today, this is reflective in our comic books, even though they're designed for, say, the 8 year old to the 15 year old.