History HilariousInHindsight / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' began as Creator/RobLiefeld's idea for [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]] leading a team of [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]] working for the government. Two years after the first Youngblood issue, Roy Harper was leading the Titans for the government.

** In ''[[Recap/TintinExplorersOnTheMoon Explorers on the Moon]]" (1954) Tintin becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Almost 15 years later man would really walk on the moon surface.

** In "Explorers On The Moon" (1954) Tintin becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Almost 15 years later man would really walk on the moon surface.
** British author Harry Thompson noted in his biography "Tintin and Hergé: a double biography" that in "The Mysterious Star" (1940) mushrooms grow to enormous size before they explode. Five years later, he wrote, the first atomic bomb would explode and produce large mushroom clouds...
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In "Recap/AsterixInBritain" (1966) Asterix, Obelix and their British friend Anticlimax cross the English Channel and arrive while it rains. Obelix remarks that building a tunnel between the French and British coast might be a good idea. Anticlimax answers: "We thought of a tunnel ourselves. We've even started digging one but it seems to be taking a jolly long time, what." When the story was first published in 1966 people had thought of building a tunnel between Great Britain and France for centuries, but it didn't seem likely that this plan would ever come to fruition.

* The long history of FrivolousLawsuit's surrounding ComicBook/{{Shazam}} has led to a lot of this, first DC sues Fawcett Comics claiming Captain Marvel is a rip-off of Franchise/{{Superman}}. This leads Fawcett to stop publishing Captain Marvel, disappointing British publisher L. Miller & Son, Ltd, who could no longer reprint their issues. To get around this they created their own CaptainErsatz called ComicBook/{{Marvelman}}, who bounced around owners for a while. In this time Captain Marvel has become a DC character, but another lawsuit from Marvel Comics led to Captain Marvel being renamed Shazam and Marvelman being renamed Miracleman. Ironically as Shazam ended up a DC character, Miracleman is now owned by Marvel.

* In the very first issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''[[note]]#0 of the mini-series, that is[[/note]], there was a short strip which mocked ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman'''s Top 10 Countdown. Two of the entries were that the comic would not rely on crossovers and that it was the only comic with a female character with very little clothing[[note]]Sally with just boots[[/note]]. Four years later, Sonic would crossover with Creator/ImageComics then again two years later with ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch and twenty years later, a CosmicReboot affected Sally would put on a ''lot'' more clothes.

* In the old ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' comic that ran in "Nintendo Power" Magazine, Link used [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild a hang-glider]] made from the feathers of a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword large bird that carried Hylian Knights into battle]] and later [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess turned into a wolf]] in the Dark World on occasion.

* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' came out, MAD joked that there was a scene with a car version of the Pope that had to be removed. And then a car Pope actually showed up in ''Cars 2''.

* In one article from the early 90s, titled, "You Know You're Too Old To Rock & Roll When...", one panel has [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick Jagger]] looking disapprovingly at a singing apple, with the caption: "A song that once got you banned in six states is now being used to sell juice drinks". A few years later, Pepsi ran an ad using the Stones' song "Brown Sugar", which was extremely controversial back in the day(and, in recent years, has become so again, for different reasons).

* In one article from the early 90s, titled, "You Know You're Too Old To Rock & Roll When...", one panel has [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger]] looking disapprovingly at a singing apple, with the caption: "A song that once got you banned in six states is now being used to sell juice drinks". A few years later, Pepsi ran an ad using the Stones' song "Brown Sugar", which was extremely controversial back in the day(and, in recent years, has become so again, for different reasons).

* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The ''Democracy Now'' 1990s story line had the quote "When some creep's holding a knife to your throat, who do you want to see riding up...me - or your elected representative? Think about it." Fast forward to 2009 and the elected Mayor of London [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Boris Johnson]] saved a woman from a mugging that he witnessed as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson he cycled home]]. Since Mayor Of London comes with no 24 hour bodyguards or police escort it seems elected representatives are a better choice than coppers.
** ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront'': [[TheRenfield Corporal Cringu]] mentions how his vampiric master Captain Constanta has used his powers to fight in several historical wars against Rumania's enemies, including the Ottoman Empire. Then [[Film/DraculaUntold in 2014 a movie was released]] where Dracula fights the Ottoman army in exactly that way.