A comic book convention or comic con is a fan convention emphasizing comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators...

The Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors (ACBFC) was the first official organization of comic book enthusiasts and historians. Active during the...

changing its name to The Comic Reader in 1962 and being named the official bulletin of the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors (ACBFC). During its run...

The Academy of Comic Book Arts (ACBA) was an American professional organization of the 1970s that was designed to be the comic book industry analog of such...

name and workings of the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors became a way "to emphasize the seriousness of comics fans about their hobby." Bails...

other comic books). As of January 2020, manga is the second largest category in the US comic book and graphic novel market, accounting for 27% of the entire...

of comic book fandom") as executive secretary of the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors, an umbrella organization for the burgeoning world of comics...

$15-and-up per day. The final three years of the 1961-1969 Alley Awards, sponsored by Alter Ego magazine and the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors...

collection of between 4,000 and 5,000 comics. By that point, Kaler was Executive Secretary of the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors (ACBFC), "...

is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Superman as its protagonist. Superman began as one of several anthology features...

Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Waring was a cartoon and comic strip collector. A Penn State meeting room by the West Wing restaurant has dozens of cartoons...

of several comic book titles featuring the team the Generation X and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original Generation X comic book series...

The New Mutants is a comic book series which debuted in 1983, featuring the team the New Mutants and published by Marvel Comics. The team first appeared...

(Broadway Central Hotel, New York City) — sponsored by the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors and produced by teacher/comics enthusiast Dave Kaler (officially...

Belgian Comic Strip Center. Belgium portal List of museums in Brussels Brussels' Comic Book Route Art Nouveau in Brussels History of Brussels Culture of Belgium...

TCR in 1968, while also becoming Executive Secretary of the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors (ACBFC). Doing double-duty was apparently too much...

National Comic Book, Art, Toy, and Sci-Fi Expo, the National Comic Book, Art, and Sci-Fi Expo, and the National Comic Book, Comic Art, and Fantasy Convention...

publications. The form of manga as speech-balloon-based comics more specifically originated from translations of American comic strips in the 1920s; several...

Hotel Southland. The official guest was Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors executive secretary and Academy Con promoter Dave Kaler. There were approximately...

series of comic book fan awards, first presented in 1962 for comics published in 1961. Officially organized under the aegis of the Academy of Comic Book Arts...

"Two competing comic book collectors are entangled in litigation,...", UPI Archives (Mar. 2, 1984). "Alan Light Sues Gary Groth and Comics Journal for...

was a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American...

Star Wars is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 12, 1977 to May 27, 1986. Featuring classic Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker...

San Diego Comic-Con is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Convention...

American cartoonist and comic book artist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel (today known as Shazam!) at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics. C. C. Beck...

about 80 fans of the comic book medium. Jerry Bails, the "father of comics fandom," was on the organizing committee, along with members of the Michigan...

series The Transformers and the comic book series of the same name, which are further divided into Japanese, British and Canadian spin-offs. Sequels followed...

1994) was an American comic book artist, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators...

by comics scholars and industry professionals. It is, at least in the United States, typically distinct from the term comic book, which is generally...

protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created...