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[Mister_Comics]

 

Bumping this thread up just to add JOE Vs. THE VOLCANO as mentioned in another thread. Comic seen in the movie.

 

Also in another ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, episode A GHOST FOR SCOTTLANDYARD. A man is shown selling comics at a stand.

[WillFury]

Incredible Hulk #128 is featured in FANDANGO, an early, underrated Kevin Costner movie. It even fits as the issue is from 1970 and the film is set in 1971.

[mar-vell]

I think there's a copy of dreadstar annual #1 on the floor in a flashback scene in Robocop. Either that or I'm wrong.

[Duffman_Comics]

I am sure there is a scene in "Summer Of "42" where Hermie (Gary Grimes) goes into a drug store (for ice cream, sprinkles and prophylactics) and there is a large display of Golden Age books on a rack. Don't have the DVD so cannot determine if they are props or the genuine article, but given the flick was released in 1971 I'd lean towards them being genuine.

[Mister_Comics]

Per recent thread...

 

AIRPLANE 2 has a scene were a spinner rack is shown. On the rack HOUSE OF MYSTERY #299 is shown.

[That Ron Dude]

I'm pretty sure the movie is KRAMER VS. KRAMER. Dustin Hoffman is at the breakfast table with his son reading the newspaper. His son is reading a copy of Thor. I haven't seen the movie in quite a while so confirmation would be nice.

[bumpjay]

 

Any new ones spotted?

 

 

Just watched "Last house on the left", goofy lower ranked policeman reading a copy of Classics Illustrated .

 

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[Ijiwaru Sensei]

I watched Stolen Summer last night. (Sappy, sentimental dreck with some seriously sloppy theology, unbelievable dialog, and some made-for-TV child performances). There are a couple scenes with the main character, an eight-year-old boy, trying to sell lemonade. While waiting for customers, he is reading a Fantastic Four from the mid 70's. In a later scene, there is a Howard the Duck #4 lying on the same table.

[JayT]

There is an episode of I think Bones (I'm not so sure about that) but I remember a Superman comic being shown. The show itself was about a comic geek who really it took to the streets (costume and all) and ended up getting killed. At any rate, the victim's first name and his artist's last name (that could be the other way around - but I'm going with that however as it makes more sense) respectively were "Warren' and 'Ellis'.

 

Funny, I remember the detail, just not sure on the show (probably due to only having 4 channels that show standard programing and 75% of them being legal/crime/forensic BS). I was giving this show a chance because it was about comics.

 

If it Bones - and if it has multiple seasons - I'd suggest it was last season as we are generally a year behind.

Edited January 6, 2007 by Jay Tomio

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

In Elvira Mistress of the Dark, a guy rips a Amazing Spider-Man (I think a #299) in half. Guess you know what I'm watching...

[seanfingh]

 

In the movie "Detroit Rock City" there is a sweet scene in a convenience store with a spinner rack full of 35 cent comics. One of the protagonists then picks up one of the Marvel Super Special KISS Magazines.

[dekeuk]

In the movie THE DEPARTED, Jack Nicholson makes a shopkeeper give the child version of Matt Damon's character some groceries. He also shoves a copy of a WOLVERINE comic into the grocery bag.

[Ijiwaru Sensei]

From Midnight Cowboy:

[Mister_Comics]

On the game show TO TELL THE TRUTH , Stan Lee appears as one of the guests. Several MARVEL comics are shown during the segment. ASM, FF, Cap, Avengers.

[deamentia]

Unbreakable anyone?

 

Sam Jackson owns a comic gallery in that movie!

[EdMann-migration]

I remember seeing a move about 15 years ago called "The WIzard of Speed and TIme" where a guy has a yard sale to raise money for a film he's trying to make. He has a pile of comics with a sign saying "25 cents each" or "50 cents each" or something. Anyhow, if I remember correctly, two of the comics they show him selling are Amazing Fantasy 15 and Amazing Spider-Man 1.

[Omega Editions-migration]

Superman is shown in nearly every single episode of Seinfeld. He has a Bowen statue and fridge magnet in his apartment and has had many superhero conversations at Monks such as whether or not Iron Man wore underwear.

 

 

[bumpjay]

Just watched "The Gate", cheesy demon/horror flick, and there is an "Alien Legion" (Epic Comics) poster hanging on the wall of the boys bedroom....

 

 

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[CDaBruce]

Drugstore Cowboy - Great Gus Van Sant movie starring Matt Dillon. In the movie, a character fakes an epileptic seizure in a drug store and knocks over a spinner rack of comics. For some reason I remember Zell the Sword Dancer being one of the comics. Mainly because it was published 20 years after the time in which the movie takes place. Check this flick out if you haven't already.

 

It was already mentioned in this thread, but I loved the idea of comics as survival manuals against vampires in The Lost Boys.

[bumpjay]

 

In the Cape Fear remake, the first scene with Robert Deniro working out in his jail cell, a couple butchered covers of Captain Marvel ( Marvel Comics) hanging on his cell wall.....

 

 

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