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* This cover of [http://www.comics101.com/archives/comics101/images/2003/nov12/avengers221.jpg Avengers 221] published in 1982 is amusing when you look at the original lineup for Brian Michael Bendis's [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|New Avengers]] published 23 years later.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s [[The Clone Saga|Clone Saga]] was originally going to be revealed as the work of Mephisto, but it was decided that [[One More Day|it was stupid for Mephisto to get involved with Spider-Man]].
* In [[The Ultimates]], [[Captain America (comics)]] was apologizing to Nick Fury about breaking his nose. Nick just waved it off and said, "My nose has been smashed more times than [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]." And later on, guessed who played [[Iron Man]]?
** [[media:nothip.jpg|This panel]] becomes funnier after knowing what Captain America does during the Civil War storyline.
* [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=978%3Aa-whole-issue-of-qlois-gets-married&Itemid=32 This] Superman cover is more funny after Spider-Man's breakup with Mary Jane...
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* From Amazing World of DC Comics, July 1976, describing the Great Disaster at DC Comics:
{{quote|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 [[I Want My Jetpack]], right? Well, not quite. 1986 was the turning point for the [[Dark Age]] 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 [[Dark Age]] was a great disaster, this may be amusingly prophetic....
* A 1997 [[Justice League of America]] 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 ''[[Lois and Clark|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 meeting, said, "Let's just kill 'im!" The end result was ''[[The Death of Superman]]''.
* On the back cover of the ''[[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 [[Back From the Dead]].
** Similar [[Word of God]] tripping-up occurs in the afterword to ''[[The Flash|The Return of Barry Allen]]'', a storyline in which Barry Allen does not actually return (yet). Mark Waid hyperbolically describes being driven up a bell tower with a rifle out of sheer exasperation at people asking him to bring back Barry.
{{quote|"What is it with you people?" I screamed. "Barry is Dead! Gone! Hearsed! Why can't you let him rest honorably, in peace?"}}
* The [[Green Lantern]] story arc, [[Sinestro Corps War]], features a rooftop fight with the sound effect "eepaa". The sound effect's origin? A one off gag in [[The Simpsons]] Movie.
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* [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 Gold]] 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] ''[[Chuck Norris]]: Karate Kommandos'' panel states a [[Memetic Badass|Chuck Norris fact]] 20 years early.
* 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 [[Batman: The Animated Series]].
* Issue 3 of ''JLA: Year One'' (written in March 1998) has a moment that seems to be intended as a Funny Aneurysm 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.
* In the "World's Finest" where Robin (Tim Drake) and [[Superboy]] (Kon-El) first meet, Superboy wisecracks that even with the costume, he knew it wasn't one of the legendary Flying Graysons. Guess which Robin is in the ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' cartoon?
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* ''[[Tintin]]'' has many of these moments:
** 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...
* ''[[Asterix]]'' : In "Asterix in Britain" (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.
* In a ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip from early 1992, Dogbert announces his intention to run for president, "hoping [his] charisma will unify a divided political party" - not the Democrats, but the Communists, as he wants to have a chance. A few years after Bill Clinton won the election, Scott Adams wrote in a compilation, "This joke made sense in 1992. Trust me."
* In a ''[[Bloom County]]'' Sunday strip, Steve Dallas has a fantasy of dancing around as [[Michael Jackson]]. Of course it was cool and badass in 1986...
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* In the lead-up to the release of ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', ''[[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 [[The Scrappy|Jar-Jar Binks]] had been renamed "Jar-Jar Binks, master of invisibility." Considering the eventual fan reaction, Peter's comment about why Jason's plan won't work is made a bit funnier.
** Not to mention that the whole strip seems eerily like it could be a parody of notorious [[Fanon]] website SuperShadow.com.
** [[Word of God]] even acknowledges the unintentional humor in his Best of Foxtrot collection.
** In another strip, Jason made a violent video game, but it could also be played in a hyper-sanitized mode to avoid parental backlash. ("Your flower is spurting butterflies from its chest wound.") Then, ''[[Serious Sam]] HD'' comes, with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2LgkIbtoA Super Happy Funtime mode].
** In one strip from June 1988, Peter calls a woman on the phone, who thinks he's someone named "Steve", causing Peter to ask who Steve is. Four months later, we meet Peter's best friend, named Steve.
* A ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strip showed Rat writing about a fake interview with Saddam Hussein who was found in a spider hole, playing a Game Boy. As Stephan Pastis wrote in commentary, [[Saddam Hussein]] was found in a spider hole, but not playing a Game Boy.
** In a strip from an arc where [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|Pig had Newt Gingrich as a pet]], Rat said that Newt can never be president and John McCain is a lock for 2008. He was proven right about the former, considering Newt's dropout of the 2012 election, but wrong about the latter, considering [[Barack Obama|the other nominee]] won that election.
* Re-runs of the [[For Better or For Worse]] comic strip featuring Lawrence are funnier when you realize that Lawrence is gay. Like when he teases Michael for liking girls, when the boys take turns pulling each others' uvulae (it's that hangy thing in the back of your throat) or when teen Michael tries to comfort a dateless loser friend by pointing out Lawrence doesn't date either.
* A ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic strip had Snoopy try to get Schroeder to recommend him for "Neighborhood Dog Of The Year". Schroeder said that Snoopy never said anything good about Beethoven. Snoopy then thinks that he didn't know Beethoven wanted to be "Neighborhood Dog Of The Year". 20 years later, a film series was made about a dog named Beethoven.
** [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1998/03/20/ This strip].
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* [http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1978&addr=780806 This] ''[[Garfield]]'' strip.
** Any pre-2006 strip involving Liz is especially funny to read nowadays, considering Jon and Liz are a couple now.
** There was one 1982 strip where Garfield said that [[U2|Monday moves in a mysterious way]].
* In an early [[Get Fuzzy]] strip, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Bucky]] doctored one of [[The Woobie|Satchel]]'s ''[[Where's Waldo]]'' books by changing it to ''Where's [[Osama Bin Laden|Osama?]]''. At the end, a bunch of American troops find him, and presumably kill him, prompting Rob to say "you can't sell this to kids". In 2011...
* There's an issue of ''[[Twisted Toyfare Theater]]'' about Wolverine's busy day-to-day schedule, wherein he guest stars in several comics over the course of the day. At the end, Alan Moore pops in to quote Oscar Wilde, saying the only thing worse than being talking about is not being talked about. Cut to Speedball, sullenly waiting by the phone, hoping he'll get a call from the ''Marvel Team Up'' guys. Speedball's next major appearance was in the last arc of ''Marvel Team-Up'' -- and not long after he became thrust into the spotlight as Penance in the wake of ''[[Marvel Civil War]]''.
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