Best Comic Book Movies Comic book to silver screen. Best comic book movies. Holy box office! An other-worldly hero, an American avenger, a team of mutants and their superhuman physiques will soon dominate movie screens with the releases of “Thor”, “X-Men: First Class” and “The First Avenger: Captain America”. The new films come from a long line of successful movies with colorful characters sprung from comic book pages ‘The Dark Knight’ This late star’s legendary performance was the first Academy Award for a role taken from a comic book. His famous quote now decorates everything from T-shirts to wallpaper ‘Iron Man’ This genius business owner/superhero played by a sharp-tongued Robert Downey Jr., built his own armored suit with amazing superpowers ‘Spider-Man’ Forget your typical teenage angst. The high school student in this film gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider, falls in love for the first time AND has to fight bad guys. Yet he still finds time to ...