[Dolemite]

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Originally Posted by icematta

Yes, It did, but for many people it was the gateway drug into comics, because it was the only thing in the theater regarding "heroes"...

This is true. We forget how good we have it nowadays with all of these awesome comic hero team-up movies. Back in the day you had just one hero in their own little self-contained universe and if you even got an off-the-cuff mention of something else from the comics it would drive you crazy with excitement, even though it always went nowhere. Like in Batman Forever when Bruce Wayne casually mentions Metropolis in passing. It went nowhere of course (you knew Superman would never pop up or anything), but I remember the audience reacted to it pretty strongly regardless, gasps and whatnot. Gee, an actual reference to something!

Again, we don't know how good we've got it these days.