# First Marvel and DC Movies you saw **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228 "2019-04-29T17:35:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/21 "2019-04-29T19:18:49Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Same. Hmm. I forgot Howard the Duck. That’d be my first Marvel movie. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/22 "2019-04-29T19:25:05Z")
Blade and Batman 66. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/23 "2019-04-29T19:26:14Z")
I saw the 1944 serial “Captain America” in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when I was friends with a “serials enthusiast” who owned some old reels. As for DC – that would be the 1966 Batman movie. Saw it when I was a kid! (1960s) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/24 "2019-04-29T19:34:29Z")
And to show how out of touch I am, with the DC list I’ve seen 13 out of 32, the most recent 2005 and with the Marvel list I’ve seen 12 out of 57, the most recent 2017. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/25 "2019-04-29T19:36:35Z")
Blade and Superman. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/26 "2019-04-29T20:40:42Z")
Depends on what you want to count… I saw the Spiderman and Hulk made-for-TV movies as a kid in 1977, and the Captain America one in 1979. First Marvel cinematic movie was probably 1998’s “Blade”. (saw 1989’s “The Punisher” as a video rental, but I"m pretty sure I saw it after “Blade”). DC universe- the 1978 “Superman” in the theater, no less. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/27 "2019-04-29T20:46:27Z")
Just the ones that were originally theatrical releases only, please. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/28 "2019-04-29T21:43:05Z")
For DC, it’s almost certainly the Christopher Reeves _Superman_, though I’m not sure how old I would have been when I first saw it all the way through. For Marvel, I saw parts of _Howard the Duck_, but not very much. For a live-action theatrical movie seen all the way through, it’d be _X-Men_, but there might have been something made-for-TV or animated in between (it seems to me I saw a movie where Hulk meets Thor, which I’m sure was made-for-TV). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/29 "2019-04-29T21:50:38Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I don’t think that Conan was ever considered to be a canonical part of the Marvel universe (then again, I may be mistaken), which’d put me in the “you might not” camp. Conan has definitely part of Marvel continuity when his comic publishing rights have been owned by Marvel. There have been a few cross-overs, mostly in What If… stories, but he’s shown up (usually very briefly, like “one-panel cameo” briefly) in some main continuity stories. Some of his villains have gotten a lot of play in the modern Marvel universe, though, probably most prominently with [Kulan Gath](https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Kulan-Gath-Marvel-Comics-X-Men-Conan-a.jpg), a wizard in Hyperborea who stuck his soul in an amulet that eventually got picked up by some schmuck in NYC, which allowed Kulan Gath to resurrect himself and [turn the Avengers into D&D cosplayers](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pogt5BJ3PpY/UVMPUhDCPAI/AAAAAAAAPTg/raKQdVWUASg/s1600/Heroes.jpg) for a couple issues. The clear implication of this story, and some of the other crossovers, is that Hyperborea is 100% the prehistory of the Marvel universe. Then Marvel lost the license, and that stuff didn’t get talked about a lot. Looks like they’ve got the license back, though, because they’re currently (or maybe just finished) a [Scarlet Witch/Conan](https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/NFE_portrait/2018/12/aveng_nrh_6_copy.jpg) crossover. That said, probably best to exclude this sort of cross over from the OP. [Because this is also something that happened in main Marvel continuity.](https://i.imgur.com/obL7PfS.png) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/30 "2019-04-29T21:52:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > (it seems to me I saw a movie where Hulk meets Thor, which I’m sure was made-for-TV). [TV movie spun out of the Lou Ferrigno Hulk TV show.](https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/hulk_thor_0.png) ---
**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/31 "2019-04-29T22:21:01Z")
Adam West’s Batman movie for DC, no doubt. Marvel is a bit more uncertain. Either the first X-Men or Spider-Man, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/32 "2019-04-30T00:55:10Z")
Batman (1966) and Captain America (1979). ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/33 "2019-04-30T01:14:07Z")
_Howard the Duck_ (1986) and _Superman_ (1978), respectively. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen any of the _Blade_ or pre-Civil War _Spiderman_ movies - some of those are supposed to be pretty good. Should get around to that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/34 "2019-04-30T01:24:22Z")
On TV: _Howard the Duck_ and either _Superman_ or _Batman_ '66 (unsure – I was young) On the big screen: _X-Men_ and _Superman II_ ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/35 "2019-04-30T01:35:06Z")
1966 _Batman_ for DC, _Blade_ for Marvel. Never saw _Howard the Duck,_ word-of-mouth was not exactly good. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Actually, you might count the 1982 Schwartzenegger movie **Conan the Barbarian** as the first Marvel movie – Conan had been running as a Marvel comic since 1970, and was undoubtedly a factor in the character’s popularity. But, then again, you might not. If you go that route, Godzilla was for a time [a canon character in Marvel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(comics)#Marvel_Comics). ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/36 "2019-04-30T01:56:41Z")
…the Nicholas Hammond [Spider-man movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(1977_film)) got a theatrical release in New Zealand which was where I saw it, so that was my first Marvel movie. And Richard Donner’s Superman was my first DC movie. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/37 "2019-04-30T01:57:10Z")
Darn it, now I’ve got the John Williams _Superman_ theme stuck in my head. Bum ba BAAAA, ba DAH bada baaaaaaa! ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/38 "2019-04-30T02:20:03Z")
DC–Superman the movie. On television. In the theater, first was Batman 1989. Marvel–X-Men. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/39 "2019-04-30T03:13:18Z")
The 1989 _Batman_ was the first superhero movie I _owned_, on VHS! It was a gift from my dad. I don’t think I ever actually watched it - I hadn’t been that impressed with the movie in theater. And now the tape is long gone to some charity bin. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228/40 "2019-04-30T20:43:30Z")
**DC** : on tv, _Superma_n (1978); in theaters, _Superman III_(1983) ----my dad took my see it when I was 8; we were going to the theater to see _Return of The Jedi_ but it was sold out. **Marvel** : on TV, _Howard the Duck_ (1986); in theaters, _X-Men_ (2000) unless you count _Men in Black_ (1997) which was based on comic published by Malibu Comics which Marvel bought in 1994 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-marvel-and-dc-movies-you-saw/833228.md?page=3)