When I was a kid, Dell comics, and later Gold Key, used to crank out comic-book adaptations of films, especially science fiction, fantasy, and “spy” films. I’'ve brought this up on this Board before. A few examples are:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Swiss Family Robinson
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Jack the Giant Killer
The Mysterious Island
The Animal World
The Sword and the Dragon – Yes! The same one they did on MST3K!
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians** – Yes!
DC comics actually released an adaptation of Dr. No (It was a reprint of a British comic’s adaptation, a rare crossing of the Atlantic in the other direction)
Years later, Marvel would start adapting films – they did Golden Voyage of Sinbad and some James Bond titles, and did a six-issue adaptation of Star Wars (and later the sequels).
In the 1960s, comics started a practice of adapting movies released long ago in comic book form. The first example I know of was Gold Key’s adaptation of King Kong. Marvel did an adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey (with art by Jack Kirby!) and later spun off a comic book series based on it, which didn’t last long. Ther have been adaptations of Star TRek movies. The Rocketeer started out as a Graphic novel, of course, but there’s been a graphic novel adaptation of the film itself, too.
In recent years, various comics companies have been mining movies past for adaptations, and not only for kids. We’ve seen multi-part adaptations of
Forbidden Planet
Rocky Horror Picture Show
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
What others have been done, and which ones haven’t been done that surprise you? Or that you’d like to see? (I’m not looking for comics based on a movie or TV series, like the DC Prisoner series, or the Steed and Mrs. Peel series. Nor am I looking for adaptations of the original stories the movies are based on, like Harry Bates’ Farewell to the Master (which became The Day the Earth Stood Still in the early 1970s by Marvel.
I might be wrong in some of these, but I haven’t seen
*Metropolis
Things to Come
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Quatermass series
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*Superman’s Metropolis doesn’t count. Nor does the Japanese anime/manga of the same name.