![]() ![]() On Wednesday, July 20th, the San Diego Comic-Con Museum inducted Spider-Man into the Superhero Hall of Fame. It is lightning in a bottle, and they’re swiping at it. ![]() That specific interaction is what the San Diego Comic-Con Museum celebrates and archives – the convergence of pop culture creators and devotees. The creators who spend their time hunched over a drawing table, wrangling their unruly ideas on a white rectangle as they sweat the deadline, finally get the heroic adulation they earned. ![]() San Diego Comic-Con is arguably the largest, most extravagant pop culture event of the year, but it started in 1970 as a comic book convention where the fans share a room with the people who make the thing they like. Overblown, floor-to-ceiling panels of Spidey envelop you, invite you – get in here, kid, be part of the action. Chaotically choreographed lights cast in bright red, the visage of our fave, friendly-neighborhood vigilante on the concrete floor, and excited fans clump into cues for their photo-op with action posed statues of Doc Ock and, obviously, Spider-Man. A generic but triumphant superhero-ish score is blaring. When you enter the San Diego Comic-Con Museum, you are barraged with kinetic energy. In this entry, we walk through the Comic-Con Museum’s Spider-Man exhibit, exploring the goodies along its endless halls. Welcome to Comic-Con Returns, our column celebrating San Diego’s mightiest comic convention and its revival after three long desolate years. ![]()
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