Comic Books seen in Television and Movies

[bminor]

Reading the "nitpicking a great show" thread I had an idea for a interesting topic.
TV shows and movies that have comic books show up in them incidentally. That is the comic books are laying around in the scene, maybe someone is reading them.
Identify the show and THEN try to identify the comic title and issue shown.
This could be very interesting.
I happened to flip on the TV the other day, an ancient Doby Gillis was on. Well Dobies Dad has a store, and in the background there was a rack with a bunch of comics on it. It flashed by pretty quick, I didn't expect to be seeing something. They never gave a decent shot of them.
I know there is a movie with Richard Gere in it were he talks about the Silver Surfer alot.

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[johndesmarais]

I know there is a movie with Richard Gere in it were he talks about the Silver Surfer alot.

American Gigolo

[paw broon]

There is a similar thread on the Comics UK forum but I don't want to go on about TV shows and comics that don't mean a lot to you.  Apart from The Avengers - the TV show, not the Marvel comic. John Steed is seen in a couple of b&w episodes reading Tintin. 
Is it too obvious to mention Big Bang Theory?

[Astaldo711]

In How I Met Your Mother I couldhave swarn I saw a poster of Space Action #2 in Barney's apartment. In Roseanne Darlene and David read comics. Look to be all DC; Batman and the like. Dan is shown reading a copy of Mister Miracle if memory serves. Fresh Prince shows Will reading and talking about Spider-Man.

[Roygbiv666]

Beyond the obvious trips to the comics shop, "The Big Bang Theory" characters have a post of ... Captain Future, I think on the wall. The pulp version, not the comics book one. That's kind of neat. Not a comic book, but comic related.

The TV Series "Simon and Simon" had some comics made up as props for an episode:
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=78394&GSub=10954
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=79905&GSub=10954

The British series "Hustle" had an episode with a prop cover of the fictitious comic "Black Storm", ostensibly from 1933.
http://www.tvrage.com/Hustle/episodes/277490

Of course the Avengers episode "Winged Avenger" which featured some great Frank Bellamy comic book props.

What else?

It's strange when shows make fake comics/props up - they always seem to use a heavy card stock for the cover, as opposed to the more supple glossy paper of actual comics.

Finally, there is a Canadian series called ... "Almost Heroes"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Heroes_(TV_series)

whew. I watch too much tv.

[jfglade]

... I know there is a movie with Richard Gere in it were he talks about the Silver Surfer alot.

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 You're thinking of "Breathless" which is an inverted remake of a french film, "A bout souffe," from the early sixties. The original film is about an American girl who goes to a university in  France and becomes involved with a small time French gangster. "Breathless" is about a French student in American who meets a flamboyant hoodlum obsessed with the Silver Surfer and Jerry Lee Lewis (who had a minor hit with a song titled "Breathless." The original is a better film and may have been the first commercial movie to use jump cuts; it was also made before Kirby and Lee created the Silver Surfer, and I don't recall any equivalent French comic book characters being mentioned.

 

[darkmark (RIP)]

In "Breathless", several issues of the Surfer are shown as covers.  But whenever the interior pages are shown, no matter what ish Gere is holding, it's always from Silver Surfer #1.

[paw broon]

A Bout De Souffle is the title (with a grave accent on the A - but I don't know how to do that), by Jean Luc Godard. In the very first scene there is a newspaper page with cartoons but, unfortunately, no comics.
You can watch the film here:-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=154265816642125228
Not a comic on tv but a superhero, in Doctor Who. The Karkus appears in The Mind Robber.