San Diego Comic-Con

San Diego Comic-Con International, also known as Comic-Con International: San Diego (as given on its website), and as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, was created in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. It was set up to celebrate comic books and for fans to meet creators, experts and other fans.

San Diego Comic-Con Media

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  Convention crowd outside of Golden Hall in 1982

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  The San Diego Convention Center during Comic-Con in 2013

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  Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter

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  Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 waiting for the exhibition hall to open

Notes

• San Diego Comic Convention Souvenir Book 1994 (offline)
• The "Secret Origin" of San Diego's Comic-Con International Archived 2010-05-03 at the Wayback Machine

Other websites

• Official website
• The early days of Comic-Con, Variety, July 11, 2008
• Comic-Con 2010: Best Pics Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback Machine - slideshow by Life magazine
• Comic-Con 2010 Archived 2010-08-08 at the Wayback Machine - slideshow by The First Post
• Comic-Con's Dorf watches sadly from the sidelines as T-shirts trump talent, San Diego Union Tribune July 16, 2006
• Keeping the intangibles Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine Maggie Thompson's memories of Comic-Con, Comics Buyer's Guide, Jan. 2009
• Comic-Convention Memories
• Crashing the Con Archived 2018-08-06 at the Wayback Machine A Documentary on San Diego Comic-Con International 2008