San Diego Comic-Con International, also known as Comic-Con International: San Diego, and commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans.

Photo: Comic-Con International: San Diego 2012. (Photo by Eddric Lee)

A traffic police woman whistles at a pedestrian, Monday, July 27, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea where its citizens are having a one-day national holiday to celebrate the country's 62nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)

People travel by tube on the London Underground to take part in the Pride in London parade, London, Saturday, July 1, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire via AP Photo)

A wax figure depicting Jennifer Lopez by wax museum Madame Tussauds dressed in a new set of clothes attracts the attention of pedestrians during a press event at a beach bar in Berlin,†Germany, August 21, 2015. (Photo by Jens Kalaene/EPA)

Actress Elke Sommer sunbathing on the beach of Cannes during the Cannes film festival, 1961. (Photo by Daniel Fallot/INA via Getty Images)

Bob Steele, of Jefferson, Texas, positions his bears during The Great Bear Show at the Dubuque (Iowa) County Fair on July 25, 2012. (Photo by Jessica Reilly/Telegraph Herald)

Participants dance at the City of West Hollywood's Pride Parade on June 05, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)

Three female friends dancing in nightclub. (Photo by Cultura Creative (RF)/Alamy Stock Photo )