How old are they now?
For adventure, pulp and comic characters, personal time largely stands still; even if the events of the outside world may advance, their age will largely stay the same, oftentimes deliberately undefined. But I became curious as to how old various characters would be if the timeline advanced for them as well as the world at large. This list is the result.
In doing the age for these characters I generally based their birth age going from the first appearance, whether it was publish date or first television episode. Few characters had birth years listed in official sources, so I used ages given in the material when possible, grade levels and related indicators where not. And so, here we are:
HOW OLD ARE THEY NOW?
Lisa Simpson: age 31 (age 8 in 1986)
Buffy Summers (Film): age 33 (age 15 in 1992)
Buffy Summers (TV): age 29 (age 16 in 1997)
Commander John Koenig (Space 1999): age 53 (Birthdate listed as 17 March 1957)
Kim Possible: age 25 (age 17 in 2002)
Ataru Moriboshi(Urusei Yatsura): age 49 (Age 17 in 1978)
Jonny Quest: age 57 (age 11 in 1964)
Josie (of Josie and the Pussycats) Age 58 (Tentative: Assumed age 18 in 1970)
Usagi Sailor Moon”Tsukino age 32 (Age 14 in 1992)
Naruta Nandaba (Furi Kuri): Age 22 (Age 12 in 2000)
Dorothy Gale (Film): Age 83 (Age 12 in 1939)
Dexter: Age 23 (Tentative: In fifth grade in 1996, and stated to have skipped a grade)
Hikaru Ichijyo (Macross) Age 17 (Age 16 in 2009)
Tom Swift Jr.: age 72 (Age 18 in 1954- not to be confused with his father)
Frank and Joe Hardy: age 99 and 98 (Ages 16 and 15 in 1927)
Dorothy Gale: age 121 (Tentative: L. Frank Baum never states her age directlyin A Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900), but she is stated to be one year older than another character, who Ruth Plumly Thompson stated was 10 years old.)
Clark “Doc” Savage: age 109 (Tenative: No age given directly in the novels, Phillip Jose Farmer gives birth year as 1901)
Tarzan Lord Greystroke: age 116 (Tentative: Age not given directly, but events of first novel in 1914 take place 20 years after the marooning of Tarzan's parents.)
Kent “Shadow” Allard: age 109 (Tentative. He was a W.W. I. flying ace, so I assume a minimum age of 16 in 1917.)
Madeline (books): age 77 (Age 7-8 in 1939)
Nancy Drew: age 96 (Age 16 in 1930)
Alice: age 152 and 1/2 (Age 7 and 1/2 in 1865, publication of Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland.)
Charles "Charlie" Brown: age 64 (Variable: age stated to be 4 in 1950, 6 in 1967, and 8 in 1979.)
Dennis “the Menace” Mitchell: age 65 (Age 5 and one-half in 1951)
Tin-Tin: age 99 (Uncertain: Publication began in 1929, and his age is given between 16 and 18 in official sources- I assume 18 since he has gone to bars and lives alone.)
Scott “Cyclops” Summers: age 64 (Tentative: his age was given as 16 before he joined Professor Xavier, but no indication of how much time passes before the first X-Men story in 1963. I assume about a year, so age 17.)
Jean “Marvel Girl” Gray: age 63? (Very tentative, age assumed based on membership in X-Men and attendance at Charles Xavier's school, giving an age around 16 in 1963)
Logan “Wolverine” Who knows? His age keeps changing every decade or so.
Bruce “Batman” Wayne: age 98? (Very, very tentative. Age 25 in 1939) Batman's parents were killed coming back from a movie picture. While it isn't directly said in the origin story, the consensus is it was a Zorro movie. The Mark of Zorro starring Douglass Fairbanks came out in 1922. If we assume it was the Mark of Zorro, and Bruce Wayne was eight at the time, that would put his age in Detective Comics (1939) at 25. That would put his birth date in 1914. He could easily be a couple years older or younger, though with his training he probably can't be much younger than 25.)
And so there you have it. There are definitely other characters that could be done, but many of them such as Clark "Superman" Kent don't have enough information to make a definite judgment of their age. But I'm willing to try. Does anyone else have characters that you want to have aged to the modern day?
In doing the age for these characters I generally based their birth age going from the first appearance, whether it was publish date or first television episode. Few characters had birth years listed in official sources, so I used ages given in the material when possible, grade levels and related indicators where not. And so, here we are:
HOW OLD ARE THEY NOW?
Lisa Simpson: age 31 (age 8 in 1986)
Buffy Summers (Film): age 33 (age 15 in 1992)
Buffy Summers (TV): age 29 (age 16 in 1997)
Commander John Koenig (Space 1999): age 53 (Birthdate listed as 17 March 1957)
Kim Possible: age 25 (age 17 in 2002)
Ataru Moriboshi(Urusei Yatsura): age 49 (Age 17 in 1978)
Jonny Quest: age 57 (age 11 in 1964)
Josie (of Josie and the Pussycats) Age 58 (Tentative: Assumed age 18 in 1970)
Usagi Sailor Moon”Tsukino age 32 (Age 14 in 1992)
Naruta Nandaba (Furi Kuri): Age 22 (Age 12 in 2000)
Dorothy Gale (Film): Age 83 (Age 12 in 1939)
Dexter: Age 23 (Tentative: In fifth grade in 1996, and stated to have skipped a grade)
Hikaru Ichijyo (Macross) Age 17 (Age 16 in 2009)
Tom Swift Jr.: age 72 (Age 18 in 1954- not to be confused with his father)
Frank and Joe Hardy: age 99 and 98 (Ages 16 and 15 in 1927)
Dorothy Gale: age 121 (Tentative: L. Frank Baum never states her age directlyin A Wonderful Wizard of OZ (1900), but she is stated to be one year older than another character, who Ruth Plumly Thompson stated was 10 years old.)
Clark “Doc” Savage: age 109 (Tenative: No age given directly in the novels, Phillip Jose Farmer gives birth year as 1901)
Tarzan Lord Greystroke: age 116 (Tentative: Age not given directly, but events of first novel in 1914 take place 20 years after the marooning of Tarzan's parents.)
Kent “Shadow” Allard: age 109 (Tentative. He was a W.W. I. flying ace, so I assume a minimum age of 16 in 1917.)
Madeline (books): age 77 (Age 7-8 in 1939)
Nancy Drew: age 96 (Age 16 in 1930)
Alice: age 152 and 1/2 (Age 7 and 1/2 in 1865, publication of Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland.)
Charles "Charlie" Brown: age 64 (Variable: age stated to be 4 in 1950, 6 in 1967, and 8 in 1979.)
Dennis “the Menace” Mitchell: age 65 (Age 5 and one-half in 1951)
Tin-Tin: age 99 (Uncertain: Publication began in 1929, and his age is given between 16 and 18 in official sources- I assume 18 since he has gone to bars and lives alone.)
Scott “Cyclops” Summers: age 64 (Tentative: his age was given as 16 before he joined Professor Xavier, but no indication of how much time passes before the first X-Men story in 1963. I assume about a year, so age 17.)
Jean “Marvel Girl” Gray: age 63? (Very tentative, age assumed based on membership in X-Men and attendance at Charles Xavier's school, giving an age around 16 in 1963)
Logan “Wolverine” Who knows? His age keeps changing every decade or so.
Bruce “Batman” Wayne: age 98? (Very, very tentative. Age 25 in 1939) Batman's parents were killed coming back from a movie picture. While it isn't directly said in the origin story, the consensus is it was a Zorro movie. The Mark of Zorro starring Douglass Fairbanks came out in 1922. If we assume it was the Mark of Zorro, and Bruce Wayne was eight at the time, that would put his age in Detective Comics (1939) at 25. That would put his birth date in 1914. He could easily be a couple years older or younger, though with his training he probably can't be much younger than 25.)
And so there you have it. There are definitely other characters that could be done, but many of them such as Clark "Superman" Kent don't have enough information to make a definite judgment of their age. But I'm willing to try. Does anyone else have characters that you want to have aged to the modern day?