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Date: July 12-15, 2012
City: San Diego, CA
Location: San Diego Convention Center

 

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About Comic-Con San Diego

 

Comic-Con International roars back into the San Diego Convention Center on July 21-24, 2011, with Preview Night on July 20. Attendee registration will open at 9am PST on Saturday, February 5th. Please click here for badge pricing and registration information.

It all started in 1970 with a one-day minicon (think of it as “Comic-Con Zero”) at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. The first guests were Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland’s famous editor) and Mike Royer, best known for his work inking Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World” books. That one-day event tested the waters -— and raised funds —- for the first ever San Diego Comic-Con (then called “San Diego’s West Coast Comic-Con”) in August of the same year, which featured comics legend Jack Kirby and science fiction authors Ray Bradbury and A. E. van Vogt. And the rest, as they say, is history -— including Kirby, Bradbury, and Ackerman going on to become three of Comic-Con’s favorite guests over the years (both Ray and Forry were present again in 2008).