History SoBadItsGood / ComicBooks

** There's plenty of [[invoked]][[UnfortunateImplications Crypto-fascist subtext]] in their mission of eugenics, and they out and out call themselves [[ANaziByAnyOtherName "superior beings"]]. Also, their personalities combine the campiness of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Heroes with the egotism of [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]].

* ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' is a perfect example of an attempt to make a character DarkerAndEdgier that fails. ''Completely''. It combines bizarre homages to the Adam West Batman TV show (Thousand year atomic batteries? A gun on display labeled "the gun that killed my parents"?) with strange attempts to be ''every cliché of the UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks'' (Motorcycle riding child gangs? Superman growing a ridiculously huge beard? Story taking place after not one, but ''two'' apocalypses?). And the villains: TWIN CLONES OF HITLER (made by WAYNE LABORATORIES)! Why?... It's not explained.

* A lot of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, especially the comics of the "[[SuperDickery Superman inexplicably forces Jimmy Olsen to marry a gorilla]]" variety.

* Likewise, fellow Marvel book ''U.S.-1'', a series in which a young trucker named [[FunWithAcronyms Ulysses Solomon Archer]], after surviving a crash, has most of his skull replaced by a metal alloy skull that can pick up CB-radio waves. and his 18-wheeler's armed with smoke screens, oil slick, caltrops, and anti-aircraft mini-missiles that can be controlled by a remote in a silver dollar. One of his villains is a demonic trucker called the Highwayman, who tries to ''kill'' our hero. There is also a love triangle involving U.S., the blonde truck-stop waitress named "Mary [=McGrill=]," and [[FieryRedhead a red-haired female trucker]] named Taryn, complete with catfight-worthy taunts from the girls! And that's not mentioning the villainous blimp-obsessed baron (named Baron von Blimp) and aliens that speak solely in CB-slang.

* The original ''Mighty Crusaders'' series of the mid-1960s is this: Hokey stories, bland attempts by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel to ape the Stan Lee style, and silly over-exaggeration of the very Marvel-style story concepts that they were aiming for. No wonder that they are continued to be mocked on the web!

* When not being slammed for its blatant CreatorsPet issues and poor writing, as well as causing several lawsuits later on, Ken Penders' [[AudienceAlienatingEra infamous run]] on ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had some patently ridiculous storylines and plot elements, with such [[SarcasmMode brilliancy]] as Knuckles' complicated (and [[OnlySixFaces samey]]) family tree, Tails transforming into a buff giant and firing lasers, and a story where real-life children (modeled after Penders' own kin) get sucked into Mobius a la (and named after) ''Film/LastActionHero'', the latter of which wound up being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0-AF_Ofaw reviewed]] in the [[MilestoneCelebration 100th episode]] of WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall.

* ''ComicBook/LiberalityForAll'', advertised as "the first conservative comic book", is basically one long, bizarre AuthorTract full of [[StrawCharacter strawmen]] where Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy fight against a [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture future]] totalitarian liberal United States [[ForWantOfANail where Al Gore won the 2000 election]], led by Chelsea Clinton and Micheal Moore, part of a UN-led OneWorldGovernment. UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden is a UN ambassador, Sean Hannity fights against the system with a cyborg arm, and Oliver North shows up to help stop a nuclear suitcase from blowing up [[BigAppleSauce New York City]]. It's a premise so [[{{Narm}} ridiculous]], so insane you would think it was a [[PoesLaw liberal parody]], but it isn't.

* The old '70s Marvel book ''ComicBook/{{Champions|1975}}''. The roster was more or less cobbled together, resulting in ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules, ComicBook/BlackWidow, [[Franchise/XMen Angel, Iceman]], and ComicBook/GhostRider sharing a book (it was meant to be just the ''X-Men'' characters, but the development got messy). The team basically just wandered around LA getting into fights with either D-list antagonists from other rogues galleries, or the craziest things Tony Isabella and Bill Mantlo could come up with, including super-strong hobos, Amazons, and power-armored recession victims. Yet in spite of all that, it's kind of charming in how confused and messy it is, as a relic of the days when crime-fighting was enough to sell a book, the action and artwork is surprisingly decent, there's no small amount of HoYay, and it features the debut of Swarm, the Nazi made out of bees. The characters involved have referred to it with some frequency since then, [[OldShame usually ruefully]].

* ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #74 featuring Franchise/SpiderMan teaming up with the old cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' to defeat Silver Samurai. The cover is hilarious; it has John Belushi, in character as Samurai Fatuba, having a samurai swordfight with Silver Samurai.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. Muhammed Ali''. An alien-depowered Supes [[https://www.cracked.com/article_16031_the-5-most-insane-celebrity-comic-book-cameos.html vs]] an overly egotistical and smartass Ali. But they never actually fight. And Ali figures out Supes' identity. Somehow. Art's nice though.

** There's plenty of [[UnfortunateImplications Crypto-fascist subtext]] in their mission of eugenics, and they out and out call themselves [[ANaziByAnyOtherName "superior beings"]]. Also, their personalities combine the campiness of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Heroes with the egotism of [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]].

* ''ComicBook/BattlePope''. It's the post-rapture apocalypse, demons are everywhere. The righteous are taken to Heaven and surprise, the Pope's not among them. After being visited by {{God}} and [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus]], the Pope [[TookALevelInBadass becomes a badass demon hunter]]. [[RatedMForManly "When He's not giving Mass, He's kicking ass!"]]