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Movies that feature actual comic books
Just a project that I'm working on. Post pics if you've got any. Plus, name movies that have scenes that take place in comic book shops like Comic Book Villains or Chasing Amy. Remember, real books. Not ones made up for movies. Edit-I'm counting faux ones that became real books afterwards. Creepshow,Bluntman & Chronic...
Lost Boys https://40.media.tumblr.com/c88527b7...wajqo1_540.jpg https://40.media.tumblr.com/2fd97902...wajqo2_540.jpg When We Were Kings https://36.media.tumblr.com/823be568...wajqo3_540.jpg Hitcher in the Dark https://40.media.tumblr.com/85fb3e28...wajqo4_540.jpg |
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I always hate it when they have to use generic independent comics in place of actual Marvel or DC comics. I recognize it's a rights issue but that always pulls me out of the movie.
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Opening pre-credits scene in Superman. I'm assuming this is an actual book.
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Actually, I am almost positive the comic seen in Superman's opening credits is not an actual published comic book. That was a mock-up made for the movie.
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Reservoir Dogs, no? Didn't Mr. Orange have some Marvel comics in his room?
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Coyote Ugly
http://40.media.tumblr.com/c64bf067b...oglfo1_500.jpg Someone really needs to teach that dude how to handle his valuable comics though. |
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Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni
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Coyote Ugly
http://40.media.tumblr.com/c64bf067b...oglfo1_500.jpg Someone really needs to teach that dude how to handle his valuable comics though.
Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
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Actually, I am almost positive the comic seen in Superman's opening credits is not an actual published comic book. That was a mock-up made for the movie.
Originally Posted by Solid Snake
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Reservoir Dogs, no? Didn't Mr. Orange have some Marvel comics in his room?
https://36.media.tumblr.com/78268ce5...wajqo1_540.jpg While we're on the Tarantino tip, True Romance, but I don't know what the book on the 2nd pic is. Any experts on that one? https://41.media.tumblr.com/f56353bd...wajqo2_540.jpg https://36.media.tumblr.com/6521fee1...wajqo3_540.jpg |
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The Ice Storm features the Fantastic Four prominently.
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Originally Posted by Mabuse
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The Ice Storm features the Fantastic Four prominently.
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Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
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While we're on the Tarantino tip, True Romance, but I don't know what the book on the 2nd pic is. Any experts on that one? https://41.media.tumblr.com/f56353bd...wajqo2_540.jpg https://36.media.tumblr.com/6521fee1...wajqo3_540.jpg |
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40-Year-Old Virgin. I don't recognize the book but it looks legit.
http://www.onlygoodmovies.com/blog/w...old-virgin.jpg |
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Originally Posted by davidh777
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40-Year-Old Virgin. I don't recognize the book but it looks legit.
http://www.onlygoodmovies.com/blog/w...old-virgin.jpg |
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Marvel Team Up is real.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JpLM0xUApO...rikeback01.jpg Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back |
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In WEST SIDE STORY (1961), Baby John (one of the Jets) is reading a comic book, but I don't recall a closeup of it. And in a bit of dialogue, he indicates that it's Captain Marvel, which was no longer being published by then, although the comic book in the shot itself could have been legit, just not Captain Marvel.
The dialogue in the play went like this: BABY JOHN He don't use knives. He don't even use an atomic ray gun. A-RAB Superman. Gee, I love him. I know I've seen other old movies with comic books, but it's been so long since I've seen them or thought about them that I can't recall them offhand. The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis comedy, ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955) is about a comic book artist and takes place at the offices of a comic book publisher, but I don't recall if they used any real comic book covers in it. P.S. I just did a google search for this topic and found that a 1958 issue of DC's Gang Busters was used in STAND BY ME. |
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The Mist, Thomas Jane gives his character's son a Hellboy comic book.
American Sniper, I think one guy was reading a Punisher comic on his bed. Captain America: The First Avenger, has people reading Captain America #1. Breathless (Richard Gere), I think one of youse said he reads a Silver Surfer comic in there. Million Dollar Baby, Freeman reads a comic... I think it was called Mystic... never heard of that one. RoboCop, Murphy's son and the crook at the liquor store both had comics. An American Werewolf in London, kid reads a Laurel and Hardy comic in the hospital. I think the main lead guy reads a comic in there too. Dunno. Poltergeist, the son reads a Captain America in there. The Departed, Nicholson's character buys the kid some food and some comics. I remember the one on top being a Wolverine one. Unbreakable, has a shit ton of comics in there. Iron Giant, the kid shows off a Spirit comic. I think we saw an Action Comics in there too. Mallrats, has some scenes with comics. Chasing Amy, flashes a lot of comics in there. |
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Friday The 13th-Part III (I never even knew there were comic books in this shot untill I finally saw the widescreen version in the mid-2000s)
https://41.media.tumblr.com/70e95c0a...wajqo2_540.jpg Thanks for the Flash, MTU and the Sleepwalker identification, guys. I actually thought that was a young Christopher Nolan in the middle of that Jay/Silent Bob pic.
Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
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I know I've seen other old movies with comic books, but it's been so long since I've seen them or thought about them that I can't recall them offhand. The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis comedy, ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955) is about a comic book artist and takes place at the offices of a comic book publisher, but I don't recall if they used any real comic book covers in it.
P.S. I just did a google search for this topic and found that a 1958 issue of DC's Gang Busters was used in STAND BY ME. https://41.media.tumblr.com/2bc6f1d3...wajqo1_540.jpg That comic looks pretty beat up for being "Brand new" in the 50's. But I'll give 'em a break and say that it actually came out in the 40's. :)
Originally Posted by Solid Snake
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Unbreakable, has a shit ton of comics in there.
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Cool World
http://i58.tinypic.com/hrevb9.jpg I recognize Batman: The Cult and AKIRA in the background. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...The_Cult_1.jpg |
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Bad Boys (Sean Penn, not Will Smith). The instructor of the reform school makes the inmates read comic books.
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Originally Posted by devilshalo
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Cool World
http://i58.tinypic.com/hrevb9.jpg I recognize Batman: The Cult and AKIRA in the background. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...The_Cult_1.jpg |
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake
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Killing Joke in there too. Where's the Akira?
Kick Ass has a mixture of fake and real. http://i62.tinypic.com/2crpop5.jpg The Sunaways is the Runaways, but that's obviously a Mignola Hellboy poster. |
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake
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Sleepwalker. A Marvel Comic. I kind of liked him as a kid. Dunno wtf happened to him though.
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Oh! Super. The remake of Kick Ass, starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page.
Spoilerized for size: Spoiler:
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Nightmare in Blood (1977) has a couple of scenes in a comic book shop. Here's a sample shot:
http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...psngvebs1i.jpg Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963) has a scene in a drug store where you can see a huge comic rack. <s>Here's a composite shot I posted sometime back in a comic book thread (I must've deleted the actual screenshots, but I can grab one if you want)</s> I found the original screenshots on my old computer: Spoiler:
http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...pswp8zts3c.jpghttp://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...psccriyhui.jpg Sticking with Herschell Gordon Lewis, here's a character in Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) reading Heart Throbs #87 (DC - Dec/Jan 1963): http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4ok9zbw0.jpg In Joysticks (1983), that guy from Miami Vice is seen enjoying a copy of Swamp Thing #21 (DC - Feb/Mar 1976): http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...psocakb15l.jpg EDIT: You can see a Howard the Duck comic (along with the backs of several others) in Halloween (1978): http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...pszxv1eww1.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...psz769mhl6.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/...psdljicnje.jpg |
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