Not entirely, no. Silver Age Marvel was more on the serious side of things, for example.  But the villains and often the heroes tended to have all sorts of creative and fantastical powers, and science in general was considerably more bendable than it is in most forms of modern fiction.<br/><br/>Ace in particular is pretty strongly patterned after Silver Age Superman and Supergirl, where having a power set that included 'everything a normal human can do, but super' meant that they could be placed into all sorts of wacky situations and have to deal with all sorts of over-the-top problems, and their solutions could be just as crazy and over-the-top in response.<br/><br/>For example, did you know that shape shifting aliens once tried to convince Supergirl that passing through some stellar radiation on a space mission had caused her to develop the ability to accidentally murder any superpowered being she touched? And that she only saw through their tricks when going over a tape recording she was making at the time revealed that the fake Comet the Super Horse that she ran into was speaking to her out loud, rather than with his telepathy?<br/><br/>And don't even get me started on the time some Kryptonian villains in the Phantom Zone concocted an elaborate escape plan that hinged on mind-controlling Supergirl's adoptive father into making her cry...  Basically, Ace is going to be a bit silly, even by the standards of the universe she's been dropped into, and it's already a much less serious place than most modern superhero universes. :P