comic book mistake?? in the departed

[paperheart]

in the opening scene set in boston "some years ago" jack nicholson's character grabs some comic books and hands them to the kid who will grow to be matt damon's character. they were issues of wolverine. any eagle eyes figure out which issues they were and if they could have been issued when the scene took place? great movie, btw.

[Jacey]

I didnt recognize the cover but it did have the MARVEL printed in the upper left hand corner

[Professor66]

It was Wolverine issue 11. I think that was 89'

[paperheart]

'89 would work- nice catch on the issue #.

[Anfield Fox]

I bet Matt Damon's character was kicking himself it wasn't an issue #10. "if only it was one month earlier, i would have a key"

[Dick Pontoon]

in the opening scene set in boston "some years ago" jack nicholson's character grabs some comic books and hands them to the kid who will grow to be matt damon's character. they were issues of wolverine. any eagle eyes figure out which issues they were and if they could have been issued when the scene took place? great movie, btw.

 

Nope, the set decorator goofed. That book at best came out several years after that sequence was taking place. The busing riots, late 60s-early-70s Ford outside the shop, and clothes put that scene in the late 70s at the latest. I was surprised to see that book in the shot, given the attention to period detail and ease of finding BA books.

[paperheart]

in the opening scene set in boston "some years ago" jack nicholson's character grabs some comic books and hands them to the kid who will grow to be matt damon's character. they were issues of wolverine. any eagle eyes figure out which issues they were and if they could have been issued when the scene took place? great movie, btw.

 

Nope, the set decorator goofed. That book at best came out several years after that sequence was taking place. The busing riots, late 60s-early-70s Ford outside the shop, and clothes put that scene in the late 70s at the latest. I was surprised to see that book in the shot, given the attention to period detail and ease of finding BA books.

 

interesting- i was just calculating 15 years or so forward in time and he could be graduating from police academy at 25ish. i prefer your argument.

[Dick Pontoon]

in the opening scene set in boston "some years ago" jack nicholson's character grabs some comic books and hands them to the kid who will grow to be matt damon's character. they were issues of wolverine. any eagle eyes figure out which issues they were and if they could have been issued when the scene took place? great movie, btw.

 

Nope, the set decorator goofed. That book at best came out several years after that sequence was taking place. The busing riots, late 60s-early-70s Ford outside the shop, and clothes put that scene in the late 70s at the latest. I was surprised to see that book in the shot, given the attention to period detail and ease of finding BA books.

 

interesting- i was just calculating 15 years or so forward in time and he could be graduating from police academy at 25ish. i prefer your argument.

 

I think they took some artistic license, because the time difference between the scene with Nicholson and the kid and Damon as an adult graduating from the academy is too great.