@MayorSanders tweets: San Diego: What would you include in the Top 10 List of Reasons Comic-Con Should Stay in San Diego? We’ll retweet the 10 best. Be creative! (LINK)

@MayorSanders tweets: Coming up: San Diegans give @Comic_Con their Top 10 Reasons Why the Show Must Go On in San Diego #ComicConSanDiego (LINK)

@MayorSanders tweets: #4 RT @binarywolf When he’s not in his cave, Bruce Wayne’s favorite place to stay is the Hotel Del Coronado! (LINK)

Complete List of the Top 10 Reasons Why the Show @Comic_Con Must Go On in San Diego (hash tags are #mayorsanders and #comicconsandiego):

Here are a few of my favorite sources of info for Comic-Con:

Need Last Minute Tickets?
Official eBay address of San Diego Comic-Con International.

Comic-con Real-Time Search Results
Tweetgrid allows you to follow several Comic-Con hashtags with automatic updates.

Twitter
The Official Twitter for Comic-Con.

Guide for Families
Comic-Con 2009 Guide for Families by Alexandra Hart

We wanted to know, among other things, does a family that goes to Comic-Con actually stick together? Is everyone in the family interested in animation, comic books, video games, and science fiction? This question and more were posed to a family in San Diego that was willing to share their animated interests and navigation strategies with us and with you.

Comic-Con Hot Spots
Google Map of restaurants, nightlife and after parties to take in during the Comic-Con weekend.

After Parties
Signonsandiego’s Entertainment Guide

SDUT’s Comic-Con Guide
San Diego events, photos, video, maps, parties.

Vicarious Comic-Con
Web Series Guide to Comic-Con

We’ll be sending down a small army into the belly of beast to report the gushy details and leaks from everything web series at Con. To help prepare, we’ve whipped up a list for all web series junkies to tag along or live vicariously.

YouTube Videos
YouTube Comic-Con channel

Comic-Con Videos
San Diego Source Media Archives

Official Comic-Con Site
The official site is here and you get can get the latest news via the rss feed here.

This photo was taken at the El Cortez Hotel in the seventies and I have no idea what happened to the other photos that were taken on that day. I am on the left. Check out that ‘fro! I was on assignment to cover Comic-Con for a local San Diego newspaper.

The Comic-Con International is now held at the San Diego Convention Center. There is little resemblance between me in this historical photo and me many years later.

The pose with the unidentified attendee was staged to reflect her portrayal of a Vulcan. The hands are in the live long and prosper position with the fingers split apart. At the top of the photo note the funky dot matrix printed banner (held up with masking tape) that reads: REGISTRAR.

Photos and highlights from Comic-Con, 1970 to today. Lots of current photos can be viewewd at the Flickr group pool.