History ShownTheirWork / Comicbooks

** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' especially demonstrated scientific principles quite often -- possibly to make up for the fact that the main character was a talking duck.

* Following the CosmicRetcon of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', the writers needed to quickly refill the cast with new characters to replace the ones that had been written out - basically, any that hadn't been created by either Sega or [=DiC=]. To do this, instead of creating an entirely supporting cast on short notice, they decided to look to the more obscure bits of Sonic's history for inspiration, ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' in particular. This resulted in re-imaginings of such characters as Breezie the Hedgehog, Wes Weaselly, and even Professor Von Schlammer from "Boogie Mania" (the "pingas" episode).

* In James Stokoe's comic ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}'' The Half Century War, during a fight between Godzilla and Anguirus, the latter doesn't curl up into a ball like he did in Final Wars or any of the other comics, he instead turns around with his spikes pointing at his enemies and launches himself backwards. Also there's a lot of references and MythologyGags to show Stokoe is not only a huge fan of the franchise, he also did a vast amount of research. Not only that but the way he designs the environments is very accurate to the time periods they happen to be set in.
* In ''Godzilla Ongoing'', it's mentioned by Boxer that Edinburgh Castle is set over an extinct volcano, which he and his team of monster hunters [[spoiler: use to defeat Anguirus]].

* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' the writers intended to have [[ComicBook/GothamCentral Renee]] [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Montoya]] be an actual alcoholic, not a light-hearted HardDrinkingPartyGirl. To help illustrate this, in one scene she takes a pair of aspirin while on a stakeout. The panel where she puts the pills in her mouth was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills and not just swallowing them; this is, apparently, "an old drunks' trick."

* In ''[[ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth Batwoman: Rebirth]]'' #1, West Point cadets Kate Kane and Sophie Moore are shown sparring, and the boxing gear they wear does not resemble any type used by the Academy. Rather than being a mistake, however, this lines up with something that was actually happening at the time. The scene is set in fall of 2010, which was around a year after West Point's women's boxing club was first established; part of that, due to budget constraints, meant that members had to provide their own gear. Thus, Kate and Sophie were very likely part of that club.

* Creator/LarryNiven did the prestige format "Ganthet's Tale" for ''GreenLantern'', and inserted his own hard science twist to Hal Jordan's known abilities. Hal has to defeat a rogue green lantern, but they are too evenly matched. So Hal uses his ring to fly at near-lightspeed - backwards, away from the target. He then lets loose with a green energy beam of power. But because Hal is moving away at near-light, the beam is red-shifted, and transforms into a YELLOW beam, which bypasses the other lantern's defenses. This was used [[ItOnlyWorksOnce little if it all afterwards]]. Bizarrely enough, one of the few other places this turns up in was ''{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}}'', where Hal Jordan is able to free himself from a bubble created by Sinestro this way.

** Film/SkyHigh also used this.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': A comic famous for its research, such as when Tintin and the gang go to the moon with all scientific plausibility that the cartoonist, Hergé, could create. In fact, Hergé was notorious for his early [[TheThemeParkVersion Theme Park Version]] travelogue stories, until a friend convinced him to do serious research, beginning with ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus''. The result is a story in China that has been praised as an excellent primer for the China of the 1930s.
** The best thing is walking through the Art/History Museum in Brussels and discovering e.g. the fetish statue from the "Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar" album.
** Herge's drive for realism probably culminated in ''Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair'', where the amount detail put into background art and scene composition would have put a movie cinematographer to shame. In fact, in planning for a minor scene in the story where enemy spies force Tintin's car off the road into Lake Geneva, Hergé actually sent a employee to drive along Lake Geneva to find a location where assassins might plausibly force a car off the road.
*** In the same story, the fire truck shown after the house explodes was the exact reproduction of the actual fire truck of the town, down to the NUMBER PLATE.
*** Probably inspired by Hergé's example, anal-retentive amounts of research and detail has become a defining trait of the ''ligne claire'' comic artists.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Stan Sakai likes to have an occasional story where he features various craftwork of Japan depicted in detail like swordmaking, cheating at gambling, kite making and pottery. It went even further when he devoted multiple chapters in a major arc to the legendary history of the famous sword, Kusanagi, ''before'' the eponymous hero came into the story. This devotion to proper research has earned Sakai a Parent's Choice Award for the comic for its educational value. Also, he often literally uses this trope by including a few paragraphs summarising his research on whatever was depicted in the comic in the letters section.

** In one ComicBook/XMen story involving the space shuttle nearly everything was correct - and this comic was written before the first time a shuttle actually went into space. Props to Creator/ChrisClaremont!
* Creator/{{Disney}} comics are not usually known for their accuracy, with one notable exception: Stories by the renowned comic book writer and illustrator Creator/DonRosa often present surprisingly accurate and well-researched history, geography and even science (for example, if you see some mathematical formula in some comic of his, you can be pretty certain the formula is, in fact, real and accurate). Rosa is known for the amount of research he makes for some of his stories.
** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' especially demonstrated scientific principles quite often -- possibly to make up for the fact that the main character was a talking duck.
** In the collected edition of ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Rosa notes out that he found specific points in time where certain historical figures would be in the same place. He also mentions when he has to "bend" the facts at certain points to make a better story, but it's fairly rare.
*** Though this is the comic that gave us the story of [[Series/MythBusters raising a sunken ship using ping-pong balls]].
* Just about every [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''Comicbook/TheFlash'' story is solved using a random law of physics, expressed by Barry Allen (a forensic scientist) as a "Flash Fact". Wally West, thankfully, remembers the lessons from his days as Kid Flash, though now he has the Speed Force to help him with all the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers stuff that can't be done by physics]].
** A famous example of this in the Barry Allen period is when the Flash is fighting an alien who has a destructive sheath of fire around him. What follows is a science lesson of the natural ways to put out a fire with each failing against the creature's extreme heat, until the speedster realizes that fire cannot exist without air and runs around the creature fast enough to drastically lower the air pressure enough within the circle to put out the flames and suffocate the alien.
** Film/SkyHigh also used this.

* ''Wolverine First Class'' had an issue about Wolverine helping a team of Canadian superheroes rescue the Governor-General of Canada, who was being held hostage in ''La Citadelle'' in Quebec City. It had accurate descriptions of Canada's government, fairly spot-on drawings of Canadian military uniforms, and a few nice {{bilingual bonus}}es.

* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' the writers intended to have [[ComicBook/GothamCentral Renee]] [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Montoya]] be an actual alcoholic, not a light-hearted HardDrinkingPartyGirl. To help illustrate this, in one scene she takes a pair of aspirin while on a stakeout. The panel where she puts the pills in her mouth was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills and not just swallowing them; this is, apparently, "an old drunks' trick."

* In James Stokoe's comic ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}'' The Half Century War, during a fight between Godzilla and Anguirus, the latter doesn't curl up into a ball like he did in Final Wars or any of the other comics, he instead turns around with his spikes pointing at his enemies and launches himself backwards. Also there's a lot of references and MythologyGags to show Stokoe is not only a huge fan of the franchise, he also did a vast amount of research. Not only that but the way he designs the environments is very accurate to the time periods they happen to be set in.
* In ''Godzilla Ongoing'', it's mentioned by Boxer that Edinburgh Castle is set over an extinct volcano, which he and his team of monster hunters [[spoiler: use to defeat Anguirus]].

* Following the CosmicRetcon of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', the writers needed to quickly refill the cast with new characters to replace the ones that had been written out - basically, any that hadn't been created by either Sega or [=DiC=]. To do this, instead of creating an entirely supporting cast on short notice, they decided to look to the more obscure bits of Sonic's history for inspiration, ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' in particular. This resulted in re-imaginings of such characters as Breezie the Hedgehog, Wes Weaselly, and even Professor Von Schlammer from "Boogie Mania" (the "pingas" episode).
* The creators of Comicbook/{{Asterix}} will frequently fudge dates for the sake of a story, or engage in blatant AnachronismStew for the sake of a gag, but they also frequently demonstrate that they ''do'' know a lot about Gaulish and Roman culture and history. For example, the horoscopes in ''Asterix and the Missing Scroll'' use authentic Celtic tree astrology.

* Before writing the ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' comic, Ian Flynn heavily researched the series, and it shows. [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Chest,_Plum_and_Ripot Chest, Plum, and Ripot]] from the obscure MascotRacer ''Battle & Chase'' appear in the first issue reporting on Light's new robots, that issue's ''Short Circuits'' has a MythologyGag to both the [[WesternAnimation/MegaMan cartoon]] and the hilariously bad American box art of the first game, and Fire Man retains his Southern accent from ''MegaManPoweredUp''.

*** Nicholas Fury describes his organization as England's "shield", a reference to his "S.H.I.E.L.D." organization in the regular comics. However, he also mentions that [[{{Spider-Man}} Peter Parquagh's]] parents used to work for him.

* ''Clan Apis''. Is a educational work that happens to also tell an interesting story. Jay Hosler is an entomologist/biologist and writes his works with education as the main point... though that's not to say that his works don't have a good narrative push. Another example of this is Optical Allusions and... well... you can tell by the title that he's done the research.

* LarryHama is a Vietnam veteran, military expert, and Japanophile. This is apparent in the level of detail that appears whenever he writes a comic book dealing with those topics, such as ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' and ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja''.

* Anything Pat Mills has written.

* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' couldn't possibly have been made without the most intimate understanding of every facet of the {{DCU}}.
** Creator/MarkWaid, the man who wrote it, is known as "the living, breathing DC encyclopedia" due to the insane amount of knowledge he has on TheDCU; to the point where DC sometimes holds "stump Mark Waid" contests at conventions just to find out what he ''doesn't'' know.

* Following the CosmicRetcon of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', the writers needed to quickly refill the cast with new characters to replace the ones that had been written out - basically, any that hadn't been created by either Sega or [=DiC=]. To do this, instead of creating an entirely supporting cast on short notice, they decided to look to the more obscure bits of Sonic's history for inspiration, ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' in particular. This resulted in re-imaginings of such characters as Breezie the Hedgehog, Wes Weaselly, and even Professor Von Schlammer from "Boogie Mania" (the "pingas" episode).

* Creator/LarryNiven did the prestige format "Ganthet's Tale" for ''GreenLantern'', and inserted his own hard science twist to Hal Jordan's known abilities. Hal has to defeat a rogue green lantern, but they are too evenly matched. So Hal uses his ring to fly at near-lightspeed - backwards, away from the target. He then lets loose with a green energy beam of power. But because Hal is moving away at near-light, the beam is red-shifted, and transforms into a YELLOW beam, which bypasses the other lantern's defenses. This was used [[ItOnlyWorksOnce little if it all afterwards]]. Bizarrely enough, one of the few other places this turns up in was ''{{Superfriends}}'', where Hal Jordan is able to free himself from a bubble created by Sinestro this way.

* Just about every SilverAge ''Comicbook/TheFlash'' story is solved using a random law of physics, expressed by Barry Allen (a forensic scientist) as a "Flash Fact". Wally West, thankfully, remembers the lessons from his days as Kid Flash, though now he has the Speed Force to help him with all the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers stuff that can't be done by physics]].

* When it comes to adding random (albeit often relevant) factoids into the dialogue, PeterDavid can outdo Creator/BrianKVaughan any day.
* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' the writers intended to have [[ComicBook/GothamCentral Renee]] [[TheQuestion Montoya]] be an actual alcoholic, not a light-hearted HardDrinkingPartyGirl. To help illustrate this, in one scene she takes a pair of aspirin while on a stakeout. The panel where she puts the pills in her mouth was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills and not just swallowing them; this is, apparently, "an old drunks' trick."

** In one ComicBook/{{X-Men}} story involving the space shuttle nearly everything was correct - and this comic was written before the first time a shuttle actually went into space. Props to Creator/ChrisClaremont!
* {{Disney}} comics are not usually known for their accuracy, with one notable exception: Stories by the renowned comic book writer and illustrator Creator/DonRosa often present surprisingly accurate and well-researched history, geography and even science (for example, if you see some mathematical formula in some comic of his, you can be pretty certain the formula is, in fact, real and accurate). Rosa is known for the amount of research he makes for some of his stories.

* In ''ExMachina'', everyone slips statistics or historical factoids into their dialogue without missing a beat. Then again the main cast is the Mayor of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and his staff. Politicians are usually pretty good at spewing out statistics. This is lampshaded when Creator/BrianKVaughan and Tony Harris meet by a statue (yes, inside the comic) and Brian starts to say something about the statue, until Tony interrupts him and pleads him not to say random factoids.

* Early on in ''TheLosers'', some random criminals are ambushed while doing a deal at a dock, near their car. One advises his colleague to hide near the wheel well of the car, since bodywork won't stop their attackers' bullets, while the engine probably would. There are not many people who know this. [[WriterOnBoard There are even less who would mention it in the middle of an ambush]].