It's less of a capital T- Thing nowadays but I grew up in an era where comics didn't have the widespread pop-cultural appeal they do now. So whenever I see references to real comic books or comic characters in movies, but especially respected, not-for-kids movies, I pop (to use the wrestling terminology). Basically the forever-pre-teen version of myself that lives in my head sees a comic reference and yells "Aw, sweet!"
So that just happened again the other day, re-watching Cape Fear (1991) when I spotted these in Max Cady's (Robert De Niro's) prison cell collage:
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