Age of Comics: The Golden Years is a worker-placement management game in which players run a publishing company during the Golden Age of Comic Books (1938-1954).

In each round, players must take turns placing 4 meeples (workers called editors). They can choose 4 of 6 spaces, called publishing tasks. There are a total of 6 publishing tasks that can be completed in any order and lead to 6 specific player actions: Hiring, Developing, Ideating, Printing, Selling, and Royalties.

When a player prints a comic book, she must pay with money and 2 identical token ideas. The value of the comic will be the sum of the value of the creative people who worked on a comic. Each creative card has a value ranging from 1 to 3.