10 Comic Book Tie-Ins That Redeemed Bad Movies

The Black Hole is one of the few forgotten Disney movie failures.

Coming out in 1979, this science fiction film was about the space ship, the Palomino, finding a lost ship, the Cygnus, on the event horizon of a black hole. Once on board, the sole occupant, Dr. Reinhardt, and his robotic crew are hospitable but there's an uneasiness about the whole thing. Then we get the disaster movie section where a meteor storm knocks out the null-gravity field keeping the Cygnus near the black hole and only a handful escape into the black hole, which after a trippy wanna-2001-be scene, they emerge from a white hole.

What worked against this film, besides coming out the same time as the first Stark Trek movie, and having to follow Star Wars two years prior, was the pacing. The plot could have worked well if the script was not focused on explaining everything in monotone exposition dumps, but where expository dialogue failed on the big screen, it proved to be a success in the comic.

By taking two of the six issues to adapt the film, the flaws were hammered out and the rest of the series acted as a sequel without having the problems that come with Disney during the 1970s.