Thread:Tupka217/@comment-24991799-20170520111225/@comment-1038387-20170520113518

Usually, stories are set in the year they are published, though it's usually not explicitly mentioned. As for the passage of time... that's fluid, as it usually is for comic books.

Only one comic was set in "real time", meaning the character aged a year every twelve issues. Hellblazer by Vertigo starred John Constantine, and in its 300 issue run, he aged 25 years (I think they were getting lax about it in the end). However, the Brightest Day event ruled most of that non-canon, and Flashpoint reset the entire storyline.

Flashpoint solved the problem of the Golden Age characters by getting rid of them. In the 90s, they tried to solve it by de-aging Alan Scott, giving Wildcat 9 lives, and killing off a couple.