DC Comics Celebrates Classic American Films Across Genres & Generations

Pop culture, the general medium of entertainment, pervades modern cultures around the world. Films and television — both live action and animated — bring fantastic stories to life for global audiences every day like no other medium. It is only natural that comics homage classic and popular movies which permeate our cultural consciousness.

A movie homage frequently mimics a movie poster, which, like some comics, may be highly collectable as well. A movie poster homage is typically one-and-done. Few are published as a series or an extended, planned event. There are exceptions to this rule, however. DC Comics, for example, published movie poster homages for several months in the spring of 2015 for many of their flagship titles.

DC homages a variety of films across a variety of categories – including sci-fi, musical, action, romance, comedy, thriller, martial arts & family-friendly – which in one way or another stands up to the test of time:

1. 300 (which oddly enough is a movie adaptation of a comic book series of the same name by Frank Miller)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Beetlejuice
4. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
5. Bullitt
6. Enter the Dragon
7. Forbidden Planet
8. Free Willy
9. The Fugitive
10. Gone with the Wind
11. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone
12. Jailhouse Rock
13. The Lost Boys
14. Magic Mike
15. Mars Attacks
16. The Mask
17. The Matrix
18. North by Northwest
19. Purple Rain
20. Super Fly
21. Westworld
22. The Wizard of Oz

Whatever their film preference, collectors are sure to find an homage to appreciate & enjoy from this DC event.

(The links in the list above lead to that movie poster homage page with additional homages to the film.)