August 6th 1972 -Comicon ’72 – How Was It For Them Then?

In iT #136, Ges Cox painted a picture of the first day of Comicon ’72: “The downstairs suite of the Waverley Hotel is packed with freaks, odd looking people in their Saturday casuals and straight comic collectors, all milling round surrounded by piles of old posters, tables which groan under the weight of old Marvels, […]

July 5th 1972 – The Approach Of Comicon

Given how the counter-culture had long embraced comic books, it should be little surprise to note that an early mention of 1972’s Comicon arrived in the pages of May 18th’s issue of the underground paper ‘IT’. There, amongst the pieces about Vietnam, rock festivals and Marcuse, and in the company of comic strips such as […]