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Post by jason on Oct 4, 2021 21:40:10 GMT -5
What are some of your favorite moments on tv or movies with characters reading or otherwise doing something with comic books?
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 4, 2021 22:31:13 GMT -5
I recall a scene from The Andy Griffith Show in which Goober is reading a comic book in Floyd's Barbershop. This still isn't of that moment but still fun to share it.  And there's this moment in an episode of The Monkees:   Finally, in an episode of Adventures of Superman ("The Birthday Letter"), a little girl is seen reading an issue of Superman.  |
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Post by jason on Oct 4, 2021 23:52:50 GMT -5
Was just watching an old (season 2) episode of SNL, and in the opening montage you can clearly see an issue of Mad and a copy of the Planet of the Apes comic on a newstand(there's no way to determine which issues they are).
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Post by Confessor on Oct 5, 2021 15:10:51 GMT -5
Semi-recently I saw there was a spinner rack of vintage comics in the background of a convenience store scene in the Netflix drama, The Queen's Gambit. Unfortunately, the comics on display didn't quite fit the drama's early 60s time period, but I still got excited enough to freeze-frame the episode to see exactly which comics were on the spinner rack...  |
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Post by MDG on Oct 5, 2021 16:21:41 GMT -5
Here are the two everyone knows about:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2021 16:24:21 GMT -5
Richard Gere reading Silver Surfer in Breathless...
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Post by Graphic Autist on Oct 5, 2021 16:56:40 GMT -5
I remember an episode of M*A*S*H where Radar was reading an issue of the Avengers during the Korean War. This screenshot is from a different episode, but he still likes his Avengers 15 years earlier than everyone else.  |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 5, 2021 17:12:07 GMT -5
Tobey Maguire's character spends a significant amount of time talking about Fantastic Four #141 in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997).
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Post by Confessor on Oct 5, 2021 17:15:04 GMT -5
Shame on me for forgetting the comics that The Beatles had in their swinging pad in the film Help! Call myself a Beatles fan [/facepalm] |
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Post by DubipR on Oct 5, 2021 17:20:26 GMT -5
Writer/Director Shane Black reads Sgt Rock in Predator  |
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Post by Farrar on Oct 5, 2021 18:57:32 GMT -5
A pretty well-known one is in Midnight Cowboy; a youngster on the bus is reading Wonder Woman #178 (Sekowsky's first issue)--you can't miss that psychedelic cover proclaiming "Forget the Old / The New Wonder Woman is Here!" WW #178 was published in July 1968; according to IMDb the movie was released in May 1969. I remember when I saw this movie for the first time some years after its initial release I loved seeing that WW cover onscreen  And I've seen (online) there's a scene that shows Jon Voight reading Sub-Mariner #6, which, like WW #178, was published in July 1968.  |
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Post by Farrar on Oct 5, 2021 19:25:34 GMT -5
Here are the two everyone knows about: ... ^^^^ This one was recently discussed on a listserv I'm on. I'd never seen the actual episode (Naked City, episode "Hold For Gloria Christmas," September 19, 1962) so I looked for it on YouTube and watched it. In subsequent shots the Amazing Fantasy comic (Spidey's debut)--which was initially displayed adjacent to the Journey Into Mystery comic (Thor's debut); both were on sale in early June 1962 (per Mike's great site)--vanishes. Lol, I guess it was a hot commodity even back then  Other comics getting facetime in this sequence were Thirteen #4 (on sale June 1, 1962, Dell); the Flintstones #6 (May 29, 1962, Dell); and Richie Rich Millions #2 (June 15, 1962, Harvey).  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 5, 2021 21:24:16 GMT -5
That 70s Show had several, in the first few seasons; and, near as I could tell, they were period-correct comics (lot of Ka-Zar). I just watched Godzilla vs Gigan, recently and it features a would-be manga artist as one of the main characters and you see several manga throughout though I couldn't identify anything notable. Baba Yaga, which is adapted from Valentina, has actual Guido Crepax illustrations from the comic on display, and a character that is supposed to be Crepax. Malcolm in the Middle first season episode, where Malcolm has a playdate with Stevie, features a bunch of Image and, I think, Malibu/Ultraverse and Valiant. Malcolm asks, "You have Youngblood #1?" Yeah, him and dozens of other disappointed fans and speculators.  Roseanne had a bunch of DC stuff in later seasons, as Darlene and David work on their comic. Bunch of Sandman stuff, a Golden Age promo poster and some Starman stuff. |
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Post by Bronze age andy on Oct 5, 2021 22:55:51 GMT -5
Can't find a screen grab but in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode the bots are reading,IIRC, Uncanny X-Men and Amethyst. There was also a time Mike was returning Crow's "Mole Man" comics. It was a stack of about 100 books but you couldn't see the covers.  |
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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 6, 2021 8:44:20 GMT -5
That 70s Show had several, in the first few seasons; and, near as I could tell, they were period-correct comics (lot of Ka-Zar). I just watched Godzilla vs Gigan, recently and it features a would-be manga artist as one of the main characters and you see several manga throughout though I couldn't identify anything notable. Baba Yaga, which is adapted from Valentina, has actual Guido Crepax illustrations from the comic on display, and a character that is supposed to be Crepax. Malcolm in the Middle first season episode, where Malcolm has a playdate with Stevie, features a bunch of Image and, I think, Malibu/Ultraverse and Valiant. Malcolm asks, "You have Youngblood #1?" Yeah, him and dozens of other disappointed fans and speculators. Roseanne had a bunch of DC stuff in later seasons, as Darlene and David work on their comic. Bunch of Sandman stuff, a Golden Age promo poster and some Starman stuff. Roseanne was one of Jim Aparo's favorite shows, and he told me he got a big kick out of seeing an issue he did on-screen. A little disappointing, though, that it wasn't one he did the cover for... |
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And I've seen (online) there's a scene that shows Jon Voight reading Sub-Mariner #6, which, like WW #178, was published in July 1968. 
