Discovery foreseen in a comic?

What happens when one searches the web for prior art, and finds it, in a comic/movie?

"Towards the end of my research I searched the Web using the mineral's chemical formula, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, and was amazed to discover that same scientific name written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luthor from a museum in the film 'Superman Returns,'" [Chris] Stanley said.

Is a fictional disclosure still a disclosure?