Recently it seems like comic book movies are taking over the box office and planning to do more in the next five years. Release schedules have fans across the globe eagerly awaiting the unveiling of new heroes on screen, old characters reinvented, and new stories for everyone to engage in. They also have fans wondering what will succeed and what will, or could, fall apart in the end.

Though it seems like comic book movie domination is a recent thing, we tend to forget about how many comic book movies have been made based on comics outside of the DC and Marvel universes. In fact, some movies, especially with wider audiences who may not obsess over releases like a comic book movie fan might, completely remove themselves from the original source material and operate on their own.

Comic book movies have been a constant for decades, it's just that some are not typically recognized as comic book movies or not as heavily advertised as comic book movies by the studios. I suppose this could beneficial for certain characters and storylines. Some of these "unrecognized" or "forgotten" comic book movies do well and in many ways exceed the popularity of the original comic book material, creating their own new fandoms outside of comic book adaptations. Some of the movies on this list did and have done very well for themselves but some, okay most, of them have not.

We've picked out ten comic book movies that we typically forget are based on comics. Some have transcended their source material so well, that the average movie goer is none the wiser to the original comic books, others fail so miserably that we hope they mistakenly stay out of the comic book movie genre forever. Here are our 10 Comic Book Movies We Forget About.