History HilariousInHindsight / ComicBooks

** Hindsight's a bitch, ain't it?

* In the "World's Finest" where Robin (Tim Drake) and Superboy (Kon-El) first team up, Superboy jokes as he catches Robin in midair, asking him if he's part of the Flying Graysons. Guess which Robin is in the latest ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/YoungJustice Young Justice]]'' cartoon?

* In the "World's Finest" where Robin (Tim Drake) and Superboy (Kon-El) first team up, Superboy jokes as he catches Robin in midair, asking him if he's a Flying Grayson. Guess which Robin is part of the latest ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/YoungJustice Young Justice]]'' cartoon?

* Can be considered an inversion, Dr. Suess's [[http://civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com/?p=5958 1943 political cartoon]] showing a man in the future telling his grandson about his days during WWII, which he apparently spent complaining about fuel shortages. This becomes much less ludicrous when you look at the date this is supposed to be taking place: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis 1973]], when everybody talked about fuel shortages.

* Can be considered an inversion, Dr. Suess's [[http://civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com/?p=5958 1943 political cartoon]] showing a man in the future telling his grandson about his days during WWII, which he apparently spent complaining about fuel shortages. This becomes much less ludicrous when you look at the date: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis 1973]], when everybody talked about fuel shortages.

* Can be considered an inversion, Dr. Suess's 1943 political cartoon showing a man in the future telling his grandson about his days during WWII, which he apparently spent complaining about fuel shortages. This becomes much less ludicrous when you look at the date: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis 1973]], when everybody talked about fuel shortages.

** And then theres the strip from 1988 where Frank tells Binkley's dad "The First black in the White House will be a conservative". not exactly,,

* {{Spider-Man}}'s Clone Saga was originally going to be revealed as the work of Mephisto, but it was decided that [[OneMoreDay it was stupid for Mephisto to get involved with Spider-Man]].

* While scanning through the reviews of a Spider-Man TPB on Amazon, one of them said(this was way back in 2003) "Where does Marvel get these lame ideas? Disney?"

* [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/chuck8.jpg This]] ''ChuckNorris: Karate Kommandos'' panel makes a [[MemeticBadass Chuck Norris joke]] 20 years early.

* One ''FarSide'' comic showed DickClark aging 200 years in 30 seconds, playing upon his supposed ageless appearance. This is made all the more hilarious with his stroke back in 2004, where he did seem to age fairly rapidly after that.

* In the 1990s, Marvel published a few comic books starring {{Disney}} characters. 'Nuff said.

* In the lead-up to the release of ''ThePhantomMenace'', ''{{Foxtrot}}'' had a strip about Jason posting fake news about the movie in order to convince other fans not to see the movie, allowing Jason a better chance to get tickets on opening day. One of the rumors he posted concerned how all CGI effects had been removed from the film, and as such [[TheScrappy Jar-Jar Binks]] had been renamed "Jar-Jar, the silent master of invisibility." Considering the eventual fan reaction, Peter's comment about why Jason's plan won't work is made a bit funnier.

* ''YTheLastMan'' features a GenderBender FTM in later issues who bears a striking resemblance to Chris Crocker.

* ''Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' issue #1 was meant to parody several things, when something happened to those tropes or something.
** [[{{FunnyAnimals}} Animal Teams]], which ironically ''made'' the meme of Animal Teams.
** The works of FrankMiller, who would later go on to inadvertently parody ''himself''.
* Straddling the line between this and FunnyAneurysmMoment: read the ''AstroCity'' story "A Nearness of You", keeping in mind ''OneMoreDay''.
* A ''MadMagazine'' article during the original ''StarWars'' trilogy (it must have been just after ''Return of the Jedi'' as it was mocking the fact the first movie was now 'Episode IV') made mock predictions regarding the plots of the future movies. It predicted that the final movie would reveal that Luke's father was actually the Force. Years later, ''The Phantom Menance'' comes out and who is Anakin's daddy?

* When ''MadMagazine'' did their parody of ''BatmanReturns'' in 1992, one of the background sight gags was that the newsboys reporting on the Penguin's good publicity were the dancing ones of ''{{Newsies}}'', which arrived a few months prior to the Batman sequel and was a notorious flop. That Disney musical [[CultClassic ultimately found a cult following]], but what makes the joke funnier now is that [[Main/DarkKnightTrilogy Christian Bale]] played the youthful hero in it.

** TheMovie refrenced this by having Macho Man Randy Savage play the wrestler, who was called Bonesaw. Macho Man and Hogan have a long past.
* The 1992 miniseries ''{{Lobo}}: Infanticide'' has a extended parody of ArchieComics (drawn by Archie Comics house artist Dan [=DeCarlo=]) with a teen-age Lobo dating a crazed, shaved-headed... BritneySpears.
* Look at the first panel of the fourth page of [[http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/l090107_obamaspidey/flash.htm?gid=842&aid=3995 this]] Spider-Man gallery. [[http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/obama.oath/index.html Yeah.]]
* Any one in the old "Who's Who in DC" series. Really, pick a character who's still around, and HilarityEnsues as you see how terribly different TheDCU is some 20 years later.
** You can do the same for ''The OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse''. Take a look at the Book of the Dead and Inactive from the initial print and see who's still dead...
* An old ''MadMagazine'' which was "concerned" with the population explosion suggested that, to prevent "young folks" from having children, people should give them a robotic dummy baby in order to convince them they can't be parents. Which is exactly what they're handing to teenage girls (and sometimes boys) in high schools across the nation today.

* ''YTheLastMan'' features a GenderBender FTM in later issues who bears a striking resemblance to Chris Crocker.
* From Amazing World of DC Comics, July 1976, describing the Great Disaster at DC Comics:
-->The pivotal time will be October, 1986 ... and in that month, the future of the world will be decided. Either the path of the Great Disaster will be taken, and civilization will fall, or the path of sanity will prevail and the Legion of Super-Heroes will emerge triumphant a thousand years later.
** That's just IWantMyJetpack, right? Well, not quite. 1986 was the turning point for the DarkAge of Comics. And DC comics from October 1986 include ''Man of Steel #1'', which began the modern revamping of Superman, and ''Batman #400'', which was the last pre-revamp Batman. Depending on whether you think the DarkAge was a great disaster, this may be amusingly prophetic....

* A 1997 JusticeLeague story had the JLA take on a mad scientist who had created a "luck machine" that altered probability in his favor, letting him win the lottery, the Nobel Prize, and become President of the USA in short order. The JLA confront him in the Oval Office and destroy his device, but when reality reorders itself, the President who thanks the team isn't the right President either, and the team realizes that reality is still broken. What's so funny about this? The "wrong" President looks ''just like Sarah Palin''.
* Then-current ''Adventures of Superman'' writer Jerry Ordway would often say "Let's just kill 'im!" whenever the Superman writing team are stuck on ideas. When their proposed "Superman marries Lois Lane" story arc was temporarily shelved to avoid conflict with the ''[[LoisAndClark Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]'' TV series (which also planned to marry Superman and Lois in a future episode), Ordway, at the next metting, said, "Let's just kill 'im!" The end result was ''TheDeathOfSuperman''.
* On the back cover of the ''[[{{ComicBook/Batman}} Batman: A Death in the Family]]'' trade paperback, in which Jason Todd, the then-current Robin, was killed off, then-Batman editor Denny O'Neil jokingly said, "It would take a sleazy stunt to bring (Jason) back", though he did admit that he voted for Jason to live. In 2005, Jason was brought BackFromTheDead.
* The Green Lantern story arc, The Sinestro Corps War, features a rooftop fight with the sound effect "eepaa". The sound effect's origin? A one off gag in TheSimpsons Movie.
-->'''Comic Book Guy''': I believe that's the sound the GreenLantern made when Sinestro threw him into a vat of acid. ''Eepaa!''
** Sadly, no vats of acid were involved.
* The original Batwoman, Kathy Kane, was introduced in the '50s in response to [[MoralGuardian Dr. Frederic Wertham's]] allegations that Batman and Robin were [[HoYay lovers]]. The current version of Batwoman, Kate Kane, is a lesbian.
* ''Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' issue #1 was meant to parody several things, when something happened to those tropes or something.
** [[{{FunnyAnimals}} Animal Teams]], which ironically ''made'' the meme of Animal Teams.
** The works of FrankMiller, who would later go on to inadvertently parody ''himself''.
* Straddling the line between this and FunnyAneurysmMoment: read the ''AstroCity'' story "A Nearness of You", keeping in mind ''OneMoreDay''.
* A ''MadMagazine'' article during the original ''StarWars'' trilogy (it must have been just after ''Return of the Jedi'' as it was mocking the fact the first movie was now 'Episode IV') made mock predictions regarding the plots of the future movies. It predicted that the final movie would reveal that Luke's father was actually the Force. Years later, ''The Phantom Menance'' comes out and who is Anakin's daddy?

* An issue of ''JLA'' featured Superman attending the funeral of Metamorpho (again...), and was the only one there. When he questioned the priest about it, he was told that since Superman came back, everyone expected superheroes not to stay dead, so they'd lost interest in memorial services. The service took place in a park dedicated to fallen superheroes, and in an obvious bid to make the point that this wasn't always the case, that sometimes dead heroes stayed dead, the artist had three memorial statues in the scene: Ice, Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), and Barry Allen (the Flash). All of them have since come back from the dead.

* In ''Marvel Year In Review 1993'', there was a fake ad for AlphaFlight: "We're the Canadian Football League of superhero teams! (Except, of course, our best heroes don't go to the U.S. and join the Avengers)". Several years later, Wolverine joined the Avengers.
** They also had a bit where they discussed the progression of DarkerAndEdgier versions of characters, and theoretical Darker-er and Edgier-er extensions. One of them was named Red Hulk. Later on, [[VillainSue Red Hulk]] became a Hulk villain.
* [[http://www.hembeck.com/Images/FredSez/BlueBeetleJLA380.jpg This panel]] from Justice League America #33. At the time, it was meant as a dig at Barbara Gordon's fate in the Killing Joke, but with the events of Countdown to Infinite Crisis (Max actually does shoot Blue Beetle in the head) it becomes hilariously prophetic. (Perhaps justified in that Booster was from the future. Was he trying to subtly warn his friend without disrupting the space-time continuum?)
* [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/chuck8.jpg This]] ''ChuckNorris: Karate Kommandos'' panel makes a [[MemeticBadass Chuck Norris joke]] 20 years early.
* Another one with Spider-Man. PeterDavid wrote that Ned Leeds was the original Hobgoblin. Not only was this questionable, but the original writer of the Hoboglibn mystery, Roger Stern, came back to do a miniseries where it was revealed Leeds wasn't the original Hobgoblin at all. [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.peter-david/msg/4e9186e3c4855006?hl=en& Even if David himself doesn't appreciate the irony]], one does have to find it a little funny that the same thing happened to him about the (Green) Goblin mystery in ''[[{{Marvel 2099}} Spider-Man 2099]]''.
* In the 1970s Batman story "The Man Who Falls", which chronicles young Bruce Wayne's training to become Batman, Bruce meets with an FBI agent who says "we don't pull our piece much. We leave that to Efrem Zimbalist, Junior". Efrem Zimbalist Jr would later be the voice actor for Alfred Pennyworth on BatmanTheAnimatedSeries.
* Issue 3 of ''JLA: Year One'' (written in March 1998) has a moment that seems to be intended as a Funny Anuerysm Moment, due to being set in the past; the Flash (Barry Allen) and Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) have a heart-to-heart conversation about the life expectancies of superheroes, which ends with Hal assuring Barry that "I predict we'll both live to a ripe old age". At that point in continuity, both Hal and Barry were dead. However, these days that moment has reversed into Hilarious in Hindsight due to both having been brought back from the dead throughout the 2000's.

* The 1992 miniseries ''{{Lobo}}: Infanticide'' has a extended parody of ArchieComics (drawn by Archie Comics house artist Dan [=DeCarlo=]) with a teen-age Lobo dating a crazed, shaved-headed... BritneySpears. SoYeah.