> There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’... the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. It wasn’t comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.

This resonates. I think during the Golden age, there was a much more optimistic sense of what those in power were doing for the little man. As scandals after scandals appeared in the following generation of politicians, that optimism was lost, and writers had to scramble to meet the attention of a more jaded audience.