24 Strangest Celebrity Cameos In Comic Book History

8. Harley Cooper (Guiding Light)

During the 1950s and 1960s, soap operas became a huge success in American television programming. Though there were powerhouses such as Dark Shadows, General Hospital, and As the World Turns, none ran as long as Guiding Light. After 70 years, however, not even Guiding Light could keep a lasting appeal. In a deal with Marvel, the show agreed to do an episode where a character called Harley Cooper gets superpowers and uses them to fight crime till she loses them at the end. In exchange, Marvel ran a story similar to the episode wherein Cooper gains superpowers again, and starts capturing villains. This sudden vigilantism attracts the attention of Iron Man, who brings in Spidey, Wolverine, and some Avengers to find her. Though she's recruited similarly to in the show, a final battle between the heroes and some enemies Spider-Man was dealing with beforehand leads to her losing her powers.

7. Saturday Night Live (SNL)

Marvel Team-Up was a comic book series that focused on - for the most part - Spider-Man joining forces with various heroes and non-heroes alike to battle crime. When Saturday Night Live launched in 1975 and instantly became a success, Marvel knew it had to cash in on the this avant-garde mark in the counterculture movement, thus leading to a 1977 issue of Marvel Team-Up wherein the Silver Samurai trashes an episode of SNL in order to get a ring that John Belushi is in possession of. Luckily, Spidey arrives and aids the cast in fighting back against the Samurai and his minions, leading to a hilarious brawl that goes down as one of the strangest, yet most effective cameos in comic book history.
 
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