Comic Book Professionals in the Marvel Universe
Since I'm far more familiar with silver and bronze age comics it'd be a modern emergence.
So maybe the 20s and 30s were rife with "Mystery Men" like the Shadow and Phantom, and the 40s were all about the Defenders and Namor and Torch, and the late 40s and 50s were all about alien invasions and giant monsters and fake propaganda Captain Americas... but then things were relatively quiet.
Maybe stuff like The Prisoner and James Bond and the Avengers was going on during the 60s and 70s, maybe we had some Knight Rider/Airwolf stuff going on in the 80s. Just sporadic comic book stuff unconnected to the main Marvel continuity; Darkman in the 90s, Burton's Batman, The Crow, nothing that changes the nature of the world TOO much but presents a gentle continuity of "real" strange happenings to make nonfiction comics out of.
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