Disco Steve posted this on the Identity Crisis thread and, rather than pull that thread even farther away from the original subject, I thought I'd start a new one to discuss his point:

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Disco Steve said:

Personally, I think everyone from the old JSA should be dead by now



Most of the original JSA's began their careers in the late 30s or early 40s. Assuming, for example, that Flash was about 20 when he began his career in 1940 (he was in college at the time), he'd be 84 now. Alan Scott was already a college grad when he became Green Lantern. He'd be closer to 90. Same thing with the Golden Age Starman.

Granted, there have been spells and stays in limbo to keep them a bit younger, but not that many, right?

Furthermore, many of them are being portrayed as having children still in their 20s or 30s. That means they had their kids in their 60s or 70s.

At what point do WWII era superheroes simply become "too old" to still work in a modern setting?