Comic Con facts

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In 2014 original "Top Model" winner Adrianne Curry fended off an attacker with a bull whip while dressed as Catwoman at San Diego Comic Con

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George R. R. Martin purchased the first ticket to attend the first Comic Con, held in New York in 1964.

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1. When tickets went for sale for the first Comic Con in 1964, the first ticket was purchased by 15-year-old George R. R. Martin.

2. When attending Comic Con 2013, Bryan Cranston disguised himself by wearing a mask of Walter White over his own face. People told him he sounded like Bryan Cranston, but didn’t realise it was him. The charade only ended when he removed the mask at the Breaking Bad panel.

3. A 6-minute, fan-made Batman movie exists where Batman fights Predator, Alien, and the Joker. It premiered at Comic Con in 2003 and Kevin Smith called it "possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made."

4. Pepsi released a limited edition "Pepsi Perfect" soft drink that was used in "Back to the Future Part II" to commemorate the trilogy's 30th anniversary. Only 6,500 bottles were produced costing $20.15 each. At Comic-Con they were given to people dressed as Marty McFly.

5. The term "Comic Con" is a registered trademark owned by San Diego Comic Con and they have forced other comic cons such as Salt Lake Comic Con to change their names.

6. Adam Savage’s replica Indiana Jones Sankara Stones were stolen at a San Diego Comic-Con party in 2015 and have never been recovered.

7. Veteran comic book artist/writer Jim Steranko (Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.) once "bitch-slapped" Batman co-creator Bob Kane in the middle of San Diego Comic-Con.

8. In 2006 Jeff Kinney signed a multiple-book deal with the publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc., during New York Comic Con.

9. When internet film critic Jeffrey Wells questioned Kevin Smith at a writer's panel at Comic-Con, Smith replied “Whoa, whoa, whoa, you’re Jeffrey Wells? Oh, interesting. You’ve written a lot of really mean stuff about me. But now that I get an eyeful of you, it doesn’t seem that bad.”

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The George RR Martin was the first ever attendee at the inaugural Comic-Con in New York

At the first ever Comic-con in 1964, George RR Martin (author of the Song of Ice and Fire series (aka Game of Thrones)) had badge #1 as he was the first person to sign up. Making him the first ever attendee to Comic-con - source

The old Mortal Kombat (1997) movie looked like a cheap comic-con roleplay - source

One of the founders of Dragoncon (Atlanta's version of Comic Con) has been accused of child molestation multiple times in the last 20 years. He owned over 1/3 of the convention until last year.

Sage Stallone died the day after Sylvester Stallone was at Comic Con having a press conference promoting Expendables 2 - source

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Pakistan recently held it's first Comic Con

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Daniel Radcliffe dresses as Spider-Man at Comic-con to hide in plain sight