Comic Book Cameo Appearances

[Richards]

I just started reading X-Treme X-Men #15, and was rather amused to see a not-very-disguised Lone Gunmen cameo. (They were from another dimension and had green skin, but otherwise they were excellent likenesses.) I remember when this sort of thing was rather common - I recall having seen Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges in various issues of The Amazing Spider-Man back in the 1980s, and I remember spotting Charlie's Angels in a harem scene in John Carter, Warlord of Mars around the same time frame. I don't seem to have seen much in the way of cameos since, until just now with the Lone Gunmen.

Anybody else have any more to add to the list? I'm not talking full-fledged guest appearances (like the Marvel Team-Up starring Spider-Man and the Not Ready For Prime Time Players or the issue when The Avengers appeared on "Late Night With David Letterman" - rather, "walk-on roles" as it were, or even just an appearance in the background of a panel or two.

Here's a couple more that just came to mind: I think Death (from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman) appeared at a wedding in The Incredible Hulk, and I recall seeing a Pierson's Puppeteer (an alien from Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series) in the background during one of the X-Men's interstellar adventures.

Any more?

Johnathan

 

[Sulimo]

Well, both Sarah Michelle Gellar & Shannon Elizabeth appeared in recent issues of The Ultimates (both dating Tony Stark).

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

Argh, it has been too long since I have gone through my collection to add too much...

but, also at Rick Jone's wedding was Rom. (Which is only interesting because the superhero license is owned by some toy company, but the character inside him wasn't.)

Erik "The Twit" Larsen uses other company's characters all the time in his excuse for a comic "The Savage Dragon".

Larsen's nemesis, Peter David, wrote an issue of the Hulk where he came out of the shower wearing a shower cap that had a fish fin on it.. i.e. looking like the Savage Dragon, asking if anyone would be fooled by his disguise.

Clinton appeared in a couple of marvel comics- I think the Hulk. As did Nixon, now that I think about it.

Sorry, that is all I can think of off the top of my head.

FD

 

[Welverin]

Check out the Top Ten TPB for a truck load of cameos.

 

[CrusaderX]

R2D2 appears in a crowd scene in an issue of Gen 13.

 

[Black Omega]

And the Avenger's or West Coast Avengers (I forget which) for an issue appeared on Late Night with David Letterman.

 

[uberkitty]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is nothing BUT cameo appearances.

 

[Hand of Vecna]

The Knights of the Dinner Table crew has made some appearances in the Marvel Mangaverse comic.

 

[Prince Atom]

CrossGen....

I was reading through CrossGen's "Mystic" title, and at the beginning of one book the characters are in a wizard's bar and there are all kinds of cameos in the crowd behind them.

Lessee... I can recognize plenty, but I can only name a few:

Dr Strange
The Scarlet Witch
Harry Potter (quel surprise)
Disney's Seven Dwarfs

And there are figures who resemble The Shadow and Dark Horse's The Ghost, but I'm not for sure on those.

Rather amusing, and here at my job there's not much amusing, so it seemed a big laugh at the time....

TWK