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Films adapted into comics

  • Batman (1989 film)13 minBatman, the 1989 film directed by Tim Burton, arrived in theaters on the 22nd of June 1989 and earned $2.2 million in late-night previews alone before most of America had even sat down for breakfast. By the end of its opening weekend, it…
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)11 minSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs arrived at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles on the 21st of December, 1937, and the audience rose to its feet before the final frame had faded. Among those in that standing ovation were Judy Garland,…
  • Blade Runner15 minBlade Runner arrived in theaters on the 25th of June, 1982, a date producer Alan Ladd Jr. chose deliberately because the 25th of the month had been his lucky day for previous releases. Ridley Scott's film dropped audiences into a Los…
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey15 min2001: A Space Odyssey premiered on the 2nd of April 1968 at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., before an audience that included critics who were, in many cases, baffled. During the New York premiere the following day, 250 people…
  • RoboCop17 minRoboCop arrived in American theaters on the 17th of July 1987, and it was not what anyone expected. The title alone put people off. Jack Mathews of the Los Angeles Times called it a "terrible title for a movie that anyone would expect an…
  • Ben-Hur (1959 film)13 minBen-Hur, the 1959 epic directed by William Wyler, arrived at a moment when Hollywood was fighting for its life. Television had eaten into ticket sales, and the consent decree of 1948 had forced studios to sell off their theater chains. MGM…
  • Erik the Viking8 minErik the Viking arrived in cinemas in 1989 as a peculiar kind of fantasy comedy: a film about a Norse warrior who simply did not want to be a Norse warrior. Terry Jones wrote and directed it, drawing on his own 1983 children's book The…
  • Highlander (film)10 minHighlander, the 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy, opens on a parking garage beneath Madison Square Garden where a sword fight decides who lives forever. Connor MacLeod, a Scottish Highlander born in the 16th…
  • Magical Mystery Tour (film)12 minMagical Mystery Tour arrived on British television screens on Boxing Day, the 26th of December 1967, and almost immediately became the Beatles' first critical failure. A colour film broadcast in black and white on BBC1, it struck most…
  • Yellow Submarine (film)12 minYellow Submarine, the 1968 animated musical film inspired by the music of the Beatles, opens not with its famous band but with an act of colour theft. The Blue Meanies sweep through Pepperland, draining every hue from the landscape and…
  • The Great Silence11 minThe Great Silence opens not on desert sun and showdowns, but on a frozen Utah frontier where survival itself is illegal. Sergio Corbucci's 1968 film plunges its audience into a blizzard so severe that starving settlers are forced to steal…
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)6 minThe Red Badge of Courage, the 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer war film directed by John Huston, arrived in theaters having already survived a war of its own. Huston believed the two-hour cut he had assembled was the finest work he had ever…

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