History ShowWithinAShow / ComicBooks

* Comicbook/AnimalMan's wife Ellen used to be the artist for a parody of ''Comicbook/ThePunisher'' called ''The Penalizer''. This gets a MythologyGag in Comicbook/TheNew52, where it's their son's favourite comic book.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Supreme}}'', Ethan Crane and Diana Dane are the creative team on ''Omniman'', a fictional character who is ''even more'' like Franchise/{{Superman}} than Supreme is. The same company also publishes ''Warrior Woman''.

* There's a running gag in ''Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}'' vol. 4 #6 concerning a show called "Dog Cops", which is apparently a very popular program among members of the Avengers. We know nothing about it except that one of the characters is "Sergeant Whiskers", but its existence has occasioned manic speculation among fans to the point where fan art exists.
* In ''Comicbook/{{FF}}'', Luna of ComicBook/TheInhumans is shown to be a fan of a [[{{Shoujo}} Shoujo]] {{anime}} about Marvel heroes.

* A few issues of ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'' in the Kyle Rayner days mention that Kyle used to be a fan of a comicbook character called the Cannoneer. One splash page shows that the Cannoneer is a cross between Cable and Shatterstar, drawn in a parody of Creator/RobLiefeld's style. He used to be a member of a group called the Y-Contingent, who are presumably equivalent to Comicbook/XForce.

* [[Comicbook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] is a fan of ''Magical Pony Adventures'', the Marvel Universe's analogue to ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''.

* There are several in the comic ''Comicbook/YTheLastMan''. ''The Last Man'' is a play written and performed by the Fish & Bicycles acting troupe (Yorick, the ''real'' last man, is not happy to discover that the play ends with ''him'' dying). The same people are seen several years later (unsuccessfully) trying to make an action movie about the radical man-hating Daughters of the Amazon, then finally end up creating a successful comic series about the last woman on Earth (Yorick is equally unimpressed with it). And when the protagonists are in Japan they watch traditional Noh theatre featuring a demon called Hitogoroshi (Manslaughter).

* Played with in ''Comicbook/TheMultiversity''; various comics that superheroes in alternate realities are fans of reflect the events of the story ... because they're recording actual events in other universes that are affected.

* In the ''Comicbook/DoctorWhoIDW Twelfth Doctor'' book, a creative team was inspired by vague rumours of a time-travelling Doctor to create ''Time Surgeon'', a comic about a punked-up version of Twelfth and his companion Kara, travelling in a Time Cabinet and fighting the Minister and the Deathroids with his sonic scalpel.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan's former wife Mary Jane was an actress in a soap opera called ''Secret Hospital'' for a while. (Her character's name was "Sybil Shane" and from what we saw of the show - which was very little - her character seemed to be a vixen of sorts, and the show pretty much had every soap opera stereotype included.)
* In one issue of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Shakespeare and his actors perform ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' for Oberon, Titania, and numerous members of the fairy realm. Since, as noted above, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' already contains a ShowWithinAShow, this makes the play about Pyramus and Thisbe a show within a show ''within a show''.

* A show-within-a-comic plays a pivotal role in ''ComicBook/{{Ronin}}''.

* As of the latest volume of her series (''Mighty Captain Marvel'', from 2017), [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] has been saddled with one of these. In a disbelief-straining setup, she's been told that the production of the loathsome fictionalized TV show about her, "''Cap'n Marvel''," is vitally important to funding her Alpha Flight team. Thus she's forced to be a technical advisor and even allow the show to film on her space station. This concept seems to be a CreatorsPet for author Margaret Stohl, who vastly overestimates both the novelty of the premise and the quality of the humor she mines out of it.

* In the comic book ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', the characters watched a TV show called ''Wendy the Werewolf Stalker'', a parody of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Eventually Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette) guest-starred in an episode after becoming famous during the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Sydney Summer Games]]. This show is also brought up in ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' since Kon, Tim and Stephanie are fans.

** Bolivar Trask's sci-fi pulp series ''The Sentinels'' in ''ComicBook/XMenNoir''. For bonus points, the original series featured chapters from ''The Sentinels'' as back-ups.

!!Examples of type 1 (characters involved in production)

!!Examples of type 2 (characters are fans)

* In the comic book ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', the characters watched a TV show called ''Wendy the Werewolf Stalker'', a parody of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. This eventually became a Type 3 for a couple of issues when Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette) guest-starred in an episode after becoming famous during the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Sydney Summer Games]]. This show is also brought up in ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' since Kon, Tim and Stephanie are fans.

** She also ''writes fanfiction'' for ''Magical Pony Adventures'' and Super Heroes (which in the Marvelverse would mean RealPersonFic), verging into type 1.

!!Examples of type 3 (SWAS is plot point)

!!Examples of type 4 (PlotParallel)

* Marvel Noir
** Bolivar Trask's sci-fi pulp series ''The Sentinels'' in ''X-Men Noir''. For bonus points, the original series featured chapters from ''The Sentinels'' as back-ups.

** ''Iron Man Noir'' has ''Marvels: A Magazine of Men's Adventure'', a pulp magazine featuring the (heavily fictionalized) exploits of Tony Stark as written by his friend Virgil Munsey and, later, Pepper Potts.