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San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego, CA · Arts & Culture
- When
- July 22–25, 2027
- Where
- San Diego Convention Center · San Diego · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A four day comics and pop culture convention at the San Diego Convention Center, with exhibitor booths, panels, and costume gatherings that have made it the best known fan convention in the country. It began in 1970 as a small comic book gathering. The 2027 edition runs July 22 through 25, with a preview night July 21.
The history within reach
- San Diego Comic-Consame spot
A four day comics and pop culture convention at the San Diego Convention Center, with exhibitor booths, panels, and costume gatherings that have made it the best known fan convention in the country.
Three hundred people met in a hotel basement, with Ray Bradbury and Jack Kirby as the draw and a budget that barely covered the room.
San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter throws a Bourbon Street style Mardi Gras block party on Fat Tuesday, with beads, brass bands, and bars along Fifth Avenue open late into the night.
Alonzo Horton bought 960 acres of scrub at auction for about 27 cents an acre, on the reasoning that a port city should be next to its harbour rather than three miles inland.
Downtown's waterfront block of saloons, opium dens and gambling halls, named for the stingrays in the bay on the theory that both would sting you.