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[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Fantasy Island

 

Adventures of Eagleman made an appearance in the TV show The Dukes of Hazard also, interestingly I cannot find any other reference to it so I wonder if it was the same comic book in both shows.

Edited April 3, 2010 by 50 Cent #II (1st)

[TheDanimal]

Donal Logue's probably a comic book geek in real life. He stars in "Grounded For Life," "Comic Book Villains," and one of the "Blade" movies.

 

Also, it's fairly well-known that the Silver Surfer dialogue in "Crimson Tide" was written by Quentin Tarantino--he did an uncredited rewrite that amounted to 3 additions, including that debate.

 

And in Mallrats I think Jason Lee at one point says the his ex (Brenda from 90210) took his Punisher War Journal # 6.

 

At one point in Mallrats? Have you ever seen it? The entire movie has comic as a backdrop. Broadie is an obsessive comic collector in the movie. I love that movie. Broadie's humor is hilarious! I always thought he made it cool to be into comics.

[GL1]

I posted this in the GA forum last week after spotting a comic in the HBO mini-series "The Pacific"

 

I watched the second episode of "The Pacific" tonight on HBO. Near the end of the episode Pfc. Leckie is sitting leaning against a palm tree writing about the experience on Guadalcanal. In a box next to him is a copy of (or replica of) All American Comics #36 March 1942. It's a little tough to make out. I had to pause it and reference GCD to figure it out

 

Kinda of neat, and I figured some of my fellow geeks here could appreciate it.

 

 

Excellent find, I have been watching the show and did not pick up on that little bit of scenery.

[bullseye]

just watched comic book villains, found it to be pretty nifty, and loved all the inside stuff, the pedigrees etc. kinda random plotwise, but nifty.

[PovertyRow]

Was watching an episode of FOREVER KNIGHT (S1 Ep13 -1992) on Hulu and came upon this little sequence.

 

 

[Avalon]

 

GL 33

 

From Bones "The Pain in the Heart"

 

The back cover is wrong, but still cool.

[Mephisto]

I was just thinking of this thread this pasty weekend.

In the movie "Just One of the Guys" Billy Jayne is going through some playboys and finds a comic mixed in and asks how it got in there and throws it across the room. I think it was New Mutants 24.

[Mister_Comics]

Adding ZONE TROOPERS to this. A 1985 Sci-fi movie about U.S. Army fighting Hitler and his Nazi's. Some space aliens get involved in the battle when their spaceship lands in the battlefield. At the end of the movie a comic is shown. The comic is FANTASTIC FICTION with a 25 cent cover price on it. Cover shows a battle scene with U.S. Army, Nazi's, & aliens battling. I believe the comic is a movie prop. I couldn't find anything on Fantastic Fiction.

[bronze_rules]

there was a recent dead zone episode i watched (a christimas special) that was almost entirely filmed at a comic shop. I assume it was in canada, it had a big painting of hulk on the wall outside. Wonder if any canadians recognize it.

 

Yesterday, I was watching White Oleanders with Michelle Pfifer, and the boy (in love with her daughter) in the movie would leave love letters in his comic store pull box.

[TheWatcher]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet (not going to read through the entire thread), but Tom Hulce's character in "Dominick and Eugene" is a huge Hulk fan. He often wears a Hulk t-shirt, has a Hulk poster on his wall, and in one scene he's reading a comic with a neighborhood kid.

 

Honorable mention goes the band Living Colour for their "Glamour Boys" video. There's a scene on a subway car where the lear singer, Cory Glover, is reading a copy of 2000 AD. Not sure if it's not an actual issue or not

 

[porcupine48]

COOL THREAD!

There is a scene in CryBaby(Traci Lords,Johny Depp)

where one of the greaser kids is reading a pre hero Tales to Astonish..

[porcupine48]

Lost Boys!

 

The Frog Brothers own a comic shop on the boardwalk. You can sort of see the shop in the background.

 

Batman#14..only five known copies...

...always looking out for the other 4....

[Bosco685]

Batman#14..only five known copies...

...always looking out for the other 4....

 

I love that line - and the movie.

[paperheart]

one of the analysts on Rubicon has framed comics on his office wall: The Invisibles and Hawk & Dove (I believe). Has also been shown to carry comic books in his briefcase: Batman & the Outsiders and Green Lantern (i believe)

[joe_collector]

We were watching the Diff'rent Strokes S2 DVDs the kids got for Christmas and in one episode Arnold has to go to the doctor for a checkup and he's given an old Gold Key UFO comic to read - I guess the Doc couldn't afford any *real* comics.

[AGGIEZ]

Don't know if someone mentioned it as I was too lazy too read through all of the response...

 

HBO’s “The Pacific" had a copy of Superman #32, episode 5 I believe.

 

 

 

 

[Junkdrawer]

in the movie Seabicuit jeff bridges son is in his room reading a sci-fi comic book i have never seen and dont recall, but the movie took place in the 30's and the book was in killer condition and possibly a real book. it was a superhero character and nice looking cover, it was easy to see in his hands as he was reading it. anyways the kid got killed in an auto accident and all through the movie i wanted to see what other books this kid had.

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Just watched 2 movies that had comics in them and thought of this thread.

 

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006) was filmed partly in Golden Apple Comics in Reseda/Northridge.

 

Altitude (2010) is like a Twilight Zone episode based on a comic book in the movie.

[Speedy-D]

I saw an episode of the old Twilight Zone the other day. A little girl was reading a comic on the couch. She gets up and her dad starts flipping through it. They showed the cover, but not well enough to figure out what it was.

[Deucedriver]

I haven't seen it on the thread yet, but in Empire of the Sun, the kid has a Wings comic.