The Addams Family (1991)

The oldest comic on this list, The Addams family first appeared in 1938 in The New Yorker. It was years before the family would be turned into a television show and later movies and a Broadway musical. The characters are so well known now and have garnered such a strong fan base outside of their origins inside a magazine, that they're hardly ever referenced to as comic book movie characters. They simply are The Addams Family. This is a perfect example of comic book characters transcending and exceeding the expectations of their original intention. The characters were given names in the sixties television series and hit cult status in the nineties with their film. Their time in black and white was long dead.