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[Spike Spiegel]

This is something I've been thinking about for a while now... I wanna try and make a list of every comic book movie Hollywood has ever made. And I'm not just talking about the obvious stuff, like Spider-Man, and Batman, and Superman, and X-Men, etc etc...

I mean EVERY comic book movie.

Obscure stuff that almost everyone's forgotten, like Tank Girl and Flash Gordon. Movies most people don't associate with comic books for various reasons, like MiB and TMNT. Movies that don't fit the traditional comic book movie mold, like Road to Perdition and Ghost World. Even crap like Howard the Duck.

ALL of them.

So who'd like to start? Let's get all of the easy ones out of the way first.

(BTW, if there's an actual complete listing of every comic book movie out there on the internet, then great. A link saves everyone a lot of time.)

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

I'll throw out some to start:

From Hell
Ghost World
Road to Perdition
League of Extraordinary Gentelmen

Superman 1-IV
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman and Ron

X-Men
X2: X-Men United

Spider-Man 1 and 2

The Crow
The Rocketeer
The Mask
Men in Black 1 and 2

 

[Baron Aloha]

DareDevil
TMNT 1-3
Captain America
Hellboy
The Punisher (twice)
Catwoman

 

[Matlock]

Fantastic Four (twice)
Flash Gordon
Ghost World
The Matrix
Road to Perdition
Dick Tracy
Casper
Judge Dredd
Blade
Blade II
Blade Trinity
Sin City
Garfield
Green Hornet (I believe a film was made earlier, if not, it's in production)
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Nick Fury (Hasselhoff...GOOOOO)
Spawn
Supergirl

 

[Scrow]

Hulk

 

[enjoy bell woods]

American Splendor

 

[DarienA]

Captain America

Cap had a series of 2 movies.

This should help:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=comicbookadaptation.htm

Road to Perdition was based on a comic book?

 

[Matlock]

Cap had a series of 2 movies.

Two series, actually.

 

[DarienA]

Two series, actually.

I know about the two TV movies in 79, and... WOW there were movies in 64, 66 and a one in 44? Geez.

 

[Trevelyon]

Garfield
Elecktra
LXG

 

[border]

Timecop
Mystery Men
Bulletproof Monk

These were comics?

 

[Baron Aloha]

I know about the two TV movies in 79, and... WOW there were movies in 64, 66 and a one in 44? Geez.

The movie I am thinking about came out in the 1990's.

http://www.imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=20;q=captain america

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Timecop
Mystery Men
Bulletproof Monk

These were comics?

Yup.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Throw some dates out there too if you can, guys. Might help avoid confusion.

 

[monkey79]

Generation X
The Return of the Incredible Hulk
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk
The Death of the Incredible Hulk

I don't know if you want to include other super hero movies like Meteor Man or Blank Man.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

If we include manga this could get long.

Mystery Men is very, very, very loosely based on a comic. But it was!

If we do SUper-Hero movies that weren't comics, it could be painful.

Also:

Fritz the Cat 70s
Heavy Metal 80s
Popeye 80s
Dennis the Meanace 80s


... comic strips makes this a much, much longer list. Flash Gordon was a comic strip, for instance, but there were also Blondie and Dagwood movies (the details I do now know).

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Yow. I knew there were a few of these, but I had no idea!


# Beware of Blondie (1950) .... Blondie
# Blondie's Hero (1950) .... Blondie Bumstead

# Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949) .... Blondie
... aka Hitting the Jackpot (1949) (UK)
# Blondie's Big Deal (1949) .... Blondie Bumstead
... aka Big Deal, The (1949) (UK)
# Blondie's Secret (1948) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie's Reward (1948) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie's Anniversary (1947) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie in the Dough (1947) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie's Holiday (1947) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie's Big Moment (1947) .... Blondie
... aka Bundle of Trouble (1947) (UK)
# Blondie Knows Best (1946) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie's Lucky Day (1946) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Life with Blondie (1946) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Leave It to Blondie (1945) .... Blondie
# Footlight Glamour (1943) .... Blondie Bumstead
# It's a Great Life (1943) .... Blondie
... aka Blondie and Dagwood: It's a Great Life (1943)
# Blondie for Victory (1942) .... Blondie Bumstead
... aka Troubles Through Billets (1942) (UK)
# Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) .... Blondie
... aka Bundle of Trouble, A (1942) (UK)
# Blondie Goes to College (1942) .... Blondie Bumstead, aka Blondie Smith
... aka Boss Said 'No', The (1942) (UK)
# Blondie in Society (1941) .... Blondie Bumstead
... aka Henpecked (1941) (UK)
# Blondie Goes Latin (1941) .... Blondie Bumstead
... aka Conga Swing (1941) (UK)
# Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) .... Mrs. Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) .... Blondie Bumstead
... aka Blondie Has Trouble (1940)
# Blondie on a Budget (1940) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie Meets the Boss (1939) .... Blondie Bumstead
# Blondie (1938) .... Blondie Bumstead

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Those all live-action, or cartoons?

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Live action. I've seen clips.

Remember this was the 40's, when moviews were severely mass-produced for the matinee crowd.

 

[Penguin]

Well since no one said it, and I think it counts

Batman: The Movie
The one with Adam West

Batman: Mask of the Phatasm
Batman: Subzero
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Batman/Superman: World's Finest

Those count, right?

 

[Team Rancid]

Don't think I saw these yet.

Barbarella (1968)
Cemetery Man (1994)
City Hunter (1993)
Creepshow (1982)
Crumb (1994)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Mask (1994)?
Men in Black (1997)
Howard the Duck (1986)
Josie and the Pussycats (2002)

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Oh, those Blondies are full-length, too. 70 minutes.


Also:

A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Snoopy Come Home

I think those are the only movie-lenght Peantus movies

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Crumb is not a comic adaptation-- it's a documentary about Crumb.

I know there was a Creepshow comic, but didn't it come after?

Was Barbarella a comic first?

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Adventures of Captain Marvel (40's serial)

 

[DumbNameD]

Barb Wire
Man-Thing
Michael Allred's G-Men From Hell
Swamp Thing
Virus
Richie Rich

 

[Great Wasabi Man]

Those all live-action, or cartoons?

Live action, theres a DVD set out of it...I dunno if it's the TV series (was there one?) or the Movies.

I know there was a Creepshow comic, but didn't it come after?

before.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

DVD set is some of the movies.

Swamp Thing 2, as long as we're at it.

Red Sonja

Oh, Matrix was not a comic unless you believe Grant Morrison when he says they stole it from the Invisbles.

And Fifth Element is not a comic adaptation, but is a *lot* like French sci-fi comics, including "The Incal."

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

No more?

There must be something missed so far.

 

[Matlock]

 

[jooey]

howard the duck ...right?

 

[Ronabo]

Man, I loved those Blondie movies when I was little.

They were up there with the Ma and Pa Kettle movies.



Anyways, are we just limiting our self to comics in the US? Because if not this thread will get huge with all the Japanese stuff

 

[FortNinety]

Has Men in Black been mentioned yet?

 

[Matlock]

Annie
Popeye
Richie Rich
The Shadow
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Josie and the Pussycats
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Richie Rich

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Anyways, are we just limiting our self to comics in the US? Because if not this thread will get huge with all the Japanese stuff

Yeah, I'm not really sure I want this to get into manga-based movie territory, unless it was made by Hollywood like 'Fist of the North Star' and 'Crying Freeman'.