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[Norrin_Radd]

In the SPIRIT movie you see him reading a issue of Vault Of Horror.

Finally, a reason to watch the movie.

[Lebowski]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but Michael Cera's character in Superbad is a huge Goon fan.

[hockey&comicsguy]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but in the TV show Chuck, sometimes you'll see Chuck laying in bed reading some moderns. Can't remember which ones though. Maybe Y the last man? And they are turning or have already turned Chuck into it's own comic thru WildStorm I think.

[Mister_Comics]

 

Gonna bump this up to update.

[Subliminal]

Earth vs. The Spider(2001) has a character who gets injected with a spider serum and becomes a spiderman

[bumpjay]

A long while back we discussed comic books that appear in movies and on television shows. Thought I try some sort of update. This would be ONLY COMIC BOOKS that have appeared on film. Not movies about superheroes.............

 

Anyone else have any they remember?

 

There was an American sitcom called "Too close for comfort"...it starred Ted Knight.

He drew a comic book (or perhaps it was a strip?) called "Cosmic Cow".

 

Bump

[Marvel1967-migration]

In Reservoir Dogs, there's a Silver Surfer poster in Tim Roth's apartment.

[joe_collector]

My kids were watching a Different Strokes DVD S1 set I just bought (mainly because it was on clearance for $4.99!) and the third episode starts with Arnold laying on his bed thumbing through a copy of Superman 331. Very nostalgic image.

 

[Mr 9.8]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the scene in ARMY OF DARKNESS where ash has a copy of ''Dark Horse's Fifth Anniversary Special'' in the trunk of his car.

[joe_collector]

In case anyone is interested, here's some picks of Arnold perusing the Superman comic.

[Designer Toast]

BREATHLESS (1983), starring Richard Gere

 

Gere reads a Silver Surfer comic (not sure which one, haven't seen the movie in ages) out loud to his co-star Valérie Kaprisky and gets into an argument with a kid about the SS.

 

See Gere reading the Silver Surfer here. I was almost all the way through this thread and was thinking, "How could anyone have not mentioned this yet?"

[Dale Roberts]

I was watching WW2 in HD on the History Channel a few weeks ago, and there were several episodes that showed soldiers reading comics. I think there were 12 - 18 episodes. Great series by the way.

[Dale Roberts]

Seems like I remember a movie with John Candy reading a comic. Not sure which one. Maybe Splash?

[Agent 007]

TV Series - Heroes there was a Silver Surfer #1, 1960's

 

Coyote Ugly the movie had Amazing Spiderman #129

 

All I can recall. I am old.

 

 

[whisp]

TV show called "Grounded for Life" season 4 episode 24 MK#5 is used along with an other MK book on the table.

 

[Gatsby77]

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.

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Just watching an early John Carpenter movie called Dark Star and at the beginning you see one of the astronauts reading a copy of Falling in Love by DC.

 

[GL1]

Richard Gere, as on the run outlaw Jesse Lujac, reads the Silver Surfer in the movie

"Breathless."

[MCMiles]

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.

 

[TOE-NEE]

Communion starring Christopher Walken had an issue of Uncanny X-Men #234 on the living room table when the aliens are coming into the house.