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Welcome back to A SKIN-depth Look, and as you can see, we're now alternating ourlonger, more in-depth directors series with slightly less comprehensive topics.This week, the king of all comic book movies, Avengers: Endgame, is in theaters, and though the Marvel movies have been an entirely skinless affair—for the female characters, at least—there's been no shortage of great nudity in comic book movies over the years.

Here are some of the most memorable nude scenes from comic book movies from 1982 to the present. This is by no means a comprehensive list. Some films we didn't have content for and some the content was more or less irrelevant—or didn't make a particularly good GIF. Here are nearly twenty films based on comic book properties with decent female nudity in them...

Swamp Thing

Wes Craven's first and only stab at the world of comic book movies didn't yield us much beyond some rubber-suited monster B-movie thrills. However, it did give us the best nude scene from busty beauty Adrienne Barbeausmack dab in the middle of her prime. Most guys drooled at the notion of seeing her nude following her break out role in the prior year's Cannonball Run, so this must have been a real treat for anyone above the age of 13 in 1982.

It remains a real treat to this day, easily the best nude scene in any DC Comics adaptation, though I'm sure there's at least one other scene on this list for which people will argue. Even still, good on Wes Craven for including this nude scene and for giving us a great, cine-literate homage to Lorna Maitland's lake bath in Russ Meyer's 1964 film Lorna...

Sheena

A SKIN-depth Look at the Sex and Nudity of Comic Book Movies

With roots going all the way back to the Fiction Books comics of the 1930s, Sheena is one of legendary comic writer and artist Will Eisner's most lasting creations. This 1984 film starring the drop dead gorgeous Tanya Robertswould only grow in popularity after its release, eventually begetting a syndicated television series. starring Gena Lee Nolin in the title role.

The film is now best remembered thanks to residing in that glorious period before the PG-13 rating really took hold, when you could see a fully naked woman in a PG movie. This has certainly helped the film's following, which didn't come out to see the film in theaters, causing it to make only $5 million against a budget of $25 million. Still, there's hardly a Gen X-er alive whose sexual awakening didn'tinvolve Tanya Roberts' waterfall scene...

The Crow

As comic book movies evolved into ever darker and more complex narratives following the blockbuster success of Tim Burton's Batman in 1989, the 90s saw a host of edgier comics get turned into films. One of the best remembered is this 1994 film starring the late Brandon Lee, which still has a strong place in the Hot Topic-goth culture world of 2019. None of the rest of the comic book movies of the 90s we're going to talk about certainly do, as they have mostly—and rightly—fallen into obscurity.

The film's nude scene comes to us courtesy of Bai Ling, who hada little more meat on her bones when she shot this glorious shower scene, showing off her bountiful backside and her (fake) tattoo...

Timecop

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1994's other R-rated comic book adaptation is this Jean Claude Van Damme-starring classic, one of the best films the Muscles from Brussels headlined in the 90s—for my money, this is second only to Hard Target. JCVD gets down to business early in the film, having sex with on-screen wife Mia Sara (above) before any time travel shenanigans get under way.

Laura Murdoch delivers the real R-rated scene in this flick, however, going full frontalon a bed duringa VR simulation...

Barb Wire

In 1996, during the height of her fame, Pamela Anderson made her first venture into the world of comic book playing the busty heroine at the center of Barb Wire, based on the comic created two years prior by Dark Horse imprint Comics Greatest World. It's sort of a chicken-and-the-egg thing, with Anderson's interest in playing a comic book character coinciding with this title featuring a woman who looks just like her created a year or so before.

Anyway, right during the opening credits, Anderson lets us know we're in for a hell of ride, showing off her breasts while stripping. Sadly the film never gets any better or more skin-filled than this, leading it to bomb at the box office and never really develop any cult following to speak of...

From Hell

The first Alan Moore adaptation on our list—certainly not the first or the last to be disowned by its creator—is this hauntinglook at not-so-jolly Old Englandfrom The Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society). For a film based around the infamous Jack the Ripper murders wherein many prostitutes were brutally killed, it's certainly more interested in the violence than it is the sex.

The film's best nude scene comes from Joanna Page, who bares her breasts while riding a guy in bed just eight minutes in...

Sin City

A SKIN-depth Look at the Sex and Nudity of Comic Book Movies

And so begins the era of slavish faithfulness to the source material, with director Robert Rodriguez co-directing alongside the comic's creator Frank Miller, for one of the most influential films of the last decade: Sin City. While certainly not better than the sum of its parts and full of compromises—seriously, Jessica Alba, don't play a stripper if you don't want to, you know, strip—the film ushered in an era where entire worlds could be created on soundstages to look and feel exactly like a comic book come to life.

The film's MVP is Carla Gugino, who has a terrific, noirish topless scene 16 minutes in...

300

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The trend continued with another, even more wildly successful Frank Miller adaptation from director Zack Snyder, whose only previous film was a divisive, but ultimately fun remake of Dawn of the Dead. This film became even more divisive, with some fans decrying the need to remain slavishly faithful to the book, while others marveled at how Snyder brought life and movement to still images.

No matter which side of the divide you land on, chances are your favorite non-action scene is the sex scene between Lena Headey and Gerard Butler 20 minutes into the film, before he and his men head off to face certain death...

Art School Confidential

2006 also gave us the final feature film from director Terry Zwigoff, this off-beat, very loose adaptation of theblack and white comics seriesof the same name by celebrated artist Daniel Clowes. The film's protagonist, Jerome (Max Minghella), is an artist who falls hard for the girl who poses nude in one of his art classes, played by Sophia Myles, and who could blame him?

The Spirit

And we're back in Frank Miller country, only this time, Miller is the sole director behind this adaptation of another Will Eisner classic, The Spirit. Borrowing heavily from the aesthetic he established with Rodriguez on Sin City, Miller drops the ball with this flick, turning a pulpy book from the Golden Age of comics and giving it a hard-edge the material didn't need or deserve.The one thing that Miller really did well, however, was shoot this amazing scene of Eva Mendes' ass as she seduces the title hero...

Wanted

Another new era in the comic book movie was born with this first adaptation of a Mark Millar title. Millar is the man behind the Kick Ass films, as well as another series we'll get to in a few. This film about bending bullets or whatever got lost in the busy shuffle of summer 2008, but is rightly remembered for the one good thing it gave us...

Just watch that GIF on a loop for two hours, I guarantee it's a better experience than watching Wanted again.

Watchmen

A SKIN-depth Look at the Sex and Nudity of Comic Book Movies

A lot of things we've talked about converge here from Zack Snyder andCarla Gugino to Alan Moore disowning another of his creations to the reliance on cgi to all the faithfully recreated moments from the comic. The film opened big but dropped like a stone after that, due to its very strong adult content and bladder-busting 160 minute running time. It's about as literally faithful as comic book adaptations get and it's getting remade by HBO later this year, so its legacy remains un-cemented.

One thing no one can fault the movie for, however, are the two nude scenes from Malin Åkerman as Silk Spectre II. Her sex scene with Patrick Wilson's Nite Owl aboard his ship set to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is laughable in the film itself, but it works pretty well in GIF form, without that song getting its reputation sullied...

Dredd

This one barely qualifies for the list, but 2012's Dredd remains—for my money—the most underrated comic book movie of the new millennium. The film's cult has grown considerably since the film tanked at the box office, but its not quite big enough to get that sequel off the ground. While there's no nude scene proper in the film, Olivia Thirlby gives us a thrillby when she opens her uniform and shows us everything but the nipple on her left breast...

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

A SKIN-depth Look at the Sex and Nudity of Comic Book Movies

The first and only sequel on our list, this 2014 follow-up to Sin City brought back nearly all of the creative voices behind the original, but just couldn't replicate its predecessor's success. It certainly wasn't for lack of trying on Eva Green's part, who goes nude eight times in the film. The issue is likely that she and Juno Temple (above) are the only actresses that go nude in the film...

Once again, spend your time just watching the scenes here on the site rather than watching this movie ever again...

Kingsman: The Secret Service

A SKIN-depth Look at the Sex and Nudity of Comic Book Movies

Mark Millar returns to the column,once again alongside director Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass) for this rip-roaring fun adventure full of some amazing set pieces. Yes, the sequel jumped the shark in nearly every way, but that takes nothing away from this flick. Plus, the film's shocking ending was a great punchline to a set-up from earlier in the film, showing Hanna Alström's ass in close-up, with a peek at some backburger (it's easier to see in the still above)...

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

A SKIN-depth Look at the Sex and Nudity of Comic Book Movies

This is another one that's a bit of a push because its source material is more graphic novel/book hybrid than comic book, but it features an amazing centerpiece performance from Bel Powley, who was robbed of an Oscar nomination three years ago. 18 minutes in, she gives us one of the best nude debuts of the decade, checking out her naked body in the mirror...

Deadpool

Like all of the Fox/Marvel mutant movies, this 2016 smash hit is more interested in male nudity than female nudity, but there is a rather sexually progressive montage (re: pegging) 24 minutes into the film. Morena Baccarin seemed to be doing her damndest to keep us from seeing her breasts during the montage, but when slowed down, you can totally see her breasts...

Officer Downe

A little known Image Comics title from Chris Burnham and Joe Casey, this flick also came out in 2016 and featured a much more daring nude scene than the more high profile Deadpool. The film opens with a blurry dolly-in that we eventually realize is heading toward a woman's open legs. That woman is the gorgeous Cody Renee Cameron, who manages not to show her bush, but when the shot cuts, we get a great look at her breasts...

Atomic Blonde

Closing out our article is this frantic action flick based on the graphic novel "The Coldest City" by Antony Johnston and starring Charlize Theron as a double, probably triple, agent on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. As she navigates an increasingly tangled web of superiors out to kill her, she makes some time for a steamy sapphic encounter with Sofia Boutella, in one of the hottest scenes in any comic book movie ever made...

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The Crow image via IMDb