Michael D Hamersky On Comics Lists... The Conventions, Shows, Meetups and Comic Book Movie Screenings That He is Attending In 2012!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3576 -  Once again, I've been asked what events I am attending during this new year of 2012.

Here is the list of events that I am planning on attending, depending on our schedules.  (Updated as of 01-01-12 for the first time.)

(Con Promoters - Please Note:  Just because your con is not listed at this time, doesn't mean that my wife and I wouldn't be interested in attending. Press Passes for Tina and myself to your show or con would possibly induce us to blog in advance about your con, mobile Facebook while there in person, and then blog about your Con afterwards.   Just a thought!)

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(Note: There will be more conventions, shows, and meetups added as the year continues, and the 'Note' at my Facebook Fan Page that this blog is based on, will be updated, not this blog):

February 17th - Ghost Rider - Spirit of Vengeance - Film

March 9th - John Carter - Film

March 16th - 18th - AnimeConji - San Diego - http://www.animeconji.org/2012/

OR...

March 16th - 18th - WonderCon - Anaheim - http://www.comic-con.org/wc/wc_reg.shtml

May 4th - The Avengers - Film

May 5th - Free Comic Book Day - I'm not for sure what area or just which one location I will be mobile Facebooking from, as of the time of this blog post.  http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

May 12th - Long Beach Comic Con Expo -  Here's the link to the info for 2012:  http://www.longbeachcomiccon.com/comic-expo.php

May 23rd - Men In Black III - Film

July 3rd - The Amazing Spider-Man - Film - This is only a 'maybe' - because so far my thoughts on this reboot film are... ehhh...

July 11th - 15th - Wednesday (Preview Night) Thursday-Sunday July (11th for Preview) 12-15, 2012 - Comic-Con International / aka San Diego Comic Con.  Here is the link for info:  http://www.comic-con.org/cci/

July 20th - The Dark Knight Rises - Film

Sept 21st - Dredd - Film

November 3rd - 4th - Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC) 2 day convention - Here's the info for the 2012:   http://www.longbeachcomiccon.com/comic-con-about.php

Nov 22nd thru 25th - The 4TH Annual Black Friday / Cyber Monday Online Event, hosted by Michael D Hamersky On Comics!   With prizes to be given away free... NO Purchase Necessary! The event page will be posted later...

The above is as of this posting date, January 2nd of 2012.

For updates to this blog, please see the 'Note' that this blog post is based on at:  2012 Meetups, Shows, Conventions, and Comic Book Movie Screenings That Tina and / or I are Attending!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,660 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/  including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' shown to the left.  I'm one of 14 contributors to that book!

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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- Michael D Hamersky of And Tina LoSasso  of Wish All of You... A Happy New Year!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,658 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Shares His... Top Ten 2011 Milestones      - - Photos this column and the column at the left:  Three of the Top Ten 2011 Milestones!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3574:

Yesterday I was hearing and seeing all kinds of Top 10 Lists for 2011... And it got me to thinking about the year that is ending today...

Which is the reason for this year end blog!

I'm presenting my personal Top Ten 2011 Milestones starting with the #10 Milestone:

#10 - First time setting up a dealer's table at a comic con since the mid 1990s.  The first time with my wife, Tina LoSasso, and my youngest son, Vinnie, who had never set up a dealer table before!  At the SoCal Comic Con in Oceanside, California back in August.

#09 - This Blog, Comic Book Collectors Blog, ends the 2011 year as being still the #1 'Followed' blog on Facebook using the NetworkedBlogs app.  #1 in the categories: comics / comic books / graphic novels. My continued thanks to all of you that have clicked the 'Follow' button at the app.  (For those of you that don't know the background history of this blog:  I started blogging back on June 7th of 2006 when I entered the first of my blogs into a 'contest' that eBay was promoting to introduce their eBay Blogs platform.  My 'un-named blog' at that time won a $100 prize, which motivated me even more, LOL!  Unfortunately back on October 31st of 2009, eBay grew tired of policing their blog platform, which had turned into a 'free-for-all chat room', IMO.)

#08 - Interviewed by Beth Accomando for the KPBS radio station / web site back in May of this year. The interview was for the article: Rants and Raves: Comic Book Movies - Superhero Films Don’t Bring New Customers to Comics Shops.  Here is the link to my blog on this, with all of the KPBS links. I have now been on a few podcasts, YouTube videos filmed by others, and radio station feature, newspaper articles. I'm loving this phase of my life!

#07 - The 45th Batman Anniversary panel at the Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con!  Which besides a great panel with Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar and Lee Merriwether, it had a great cake cutting ceremony also!  With plenty of cake to go around for the attendees.  Which was doubly great because the 45th Anniversary Panel at the Comic-Con International: San Diego was maxed out, and we couldn't get in to that one!  Too small of a room there! Anyways, one of the photos is seen at the second to the top right of this blog post.  The others can be seen in this special photo album.

#06 - My 3rd Annual Black Friday (online) Event, which I expanded through to the end of Cyber Monday. My thanks again to the donators of the Free Gifts, which doubled from 11 in 2010 to 22 in 2011! And to all of you that clicked the 'Going' link at the event page!

#05 - Facebook Fan Page for 'Michael D Hamersky On Comics' ended the year at a little over 1,600 Fans! Considering it was started at the end of last year, and I'm a regional Southern California guy, that's pretty satisfying!

#04 - Expanding the scope of my social network, by setting up a YouTube Channel, HamerskyOnComics.  The channel was set up the weekend before the San Diego Comic con, and now has over 2,700 views and 74 videos.  It takes a long time to upload videos, I found! A small presence to start with, but I'm looking forward to uploading more videos in 2012!

#03 - First book signing for 'Gotham City 14 Miles' at the 2011 Nuke The Fridge Con on December 10th.  Here's a link to that blog post, plus a link to the special photo album for the signing and the con. Oh, I also usally have one eByay listing for the book, which you can buy unsigned or have me personalize it to you or a friend you are buying it for.

#02 - Nominated for 'Comics Blogger of the year' at the Detroit Fanfare.  One of five nominees for the first time ever award for this category at the Detroit Fanfare.  Although I didn't win, it was a great honor to be nominated along with Stefan Blitz (Forces of Geek), Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool News), Heidi MacDonald (The Beat), and Various Contributors (Robot 6)!

#01 - 50th Anniversary of Comics Fandom party at the 2011 Comic-Con International: San Diego!  Meeting the founders of Comics Fandom, including Pat & Dick Lupoff, seen at the top right photo of this blog post, was FANtastic!  It was so great seeing people I hadn't seen in years, and others that I 'knew' of, but hadn't met before!  The best panel / party / program I attended all year, because it was so cool being with other 'Fans' that go back 50 or so years!  My thanks again to Jackie Estrada for bringing this special party to my attention before Comic-Con started this year!  Here's a link to the special photo album from that party!

Whew!  This took me all me year to write, or so it seems this morning!  It's now 10 AM PST, and I want to 'proof' this blog before posting.  I have a few other things that need to be accomplished before the year is over, so I have to get moving!  I thought it would be hard to have more than a Top Five, but I had to cut the list off at the Top Ten, otherwise I would still be remembering all the fun times I had this year via my 'Michael D Hamersky On Comics' operations! 

Thanks again for reading my Blog this year, and I'm wishing you all an early Happy New Year!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,658 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Announces That... Thanks to eBay, There Is A Year End Clearance Sale At ComicBooksCircus.com - The BIG TOP of Comics!  (December 30th of 2011 - January 5th of 2012!)       - Pics this column:  The logo for ComicBooksCircus.com - The Big Top of Comics! - and The Circus Train Is Coming to Town - Plus A Half Dozen Elephants are here to help move the comics / magazines / DVDs / toys / books / out for the 2011 Year End Clearance Sale! - Top Photo Left Column:  Michael D Hamersky & Tina LoSasso at the eBay Live 2005 event in San Jose! -

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3573:

I was going to post this tomorrow in my blog, which is the reason for using the 'Friday Newsletter' photo to the left... But I just couldn't wait to give my blog readers a special heads up that...

ComicBooksCircus.com is taking advantage of the three day listing sale for auction listings that eBay is running December 27th - 28th - 29th!

How?  By listing auction listings starting at only 99 cents on up for auction listings that are ending three to seven days after they are listed in the eBay Store that ComicBooksCircus.com's domain name is re-directed to!

So from December 30th (tomorrow!) through January 5th, YOU can take advantage of this listing sale!

Of course you can preview the auction listings right now, as they are 'live' at ComicBooksCircus.com!

Please note:  There is a 'shipping special' for raw unslabbed comic books!  $3.95 S&H is all that I ask for shipping 1 to 100 comics to USA addresses.  I repeat:  $3.95 S&H for raw unslabbed comic books only!

No CGCd slabbed comics for this shipping special.  Also, if you 'mix' comics with graphic novels, books, toys, DVDs, etc., I can still combine shipping, but the S&H charge would be more, as they are odd shaped with different page counts.  The total weight is usually heavier, and I have to use odd sized shipping boxes or envelopes to ship them.  Please message me through eBay's message program for S&H costs!

Also, due to a fraudulent claim with PayPal earlier this year, I no longer ship outside of the USA anymore, UNLESS the potential buyer pays for a shipping format that has tracking.  That form of shipping unfortunately is very expensive, so shipping inexpensive comics out of the country just isn't cost effective normally for the buyer.  I only ship via USPS, and the most current rates are shown at a special note page within my Facebook Fan Page for 'Michael D Hamersky On Comics'. Again, my apologies for the higher shipping charges shown there, but I can no longer afford to ship using PayPal as payment without abiding by PayPal's policy on chargebacks, after that major fradulent claim from a buyer in Argentina. 

However, for those of YOU that are in the USA, or are in Canada or Mexico with access to a USA shipping destination, now is the time to purchase those items you are missing from your collection, or didn't buy when they first came out to read!

Again, this is the link to ComicBooksCircus.com, where I invite you to shop our Year End Clearance Sale that is happening right now, thanks to eBay!

I hope you are enjoying the holiday season... Soon it will be 2012!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,654 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Wishes... Stan Lee, A Happy 89th Birthday!  (Born December 28th, 1922)      - Photo this column: Stan Lee at the August 1998 Comic-Con International: San Diego, aka San Diego Comic Con, signing my copy of the Comic Book Marketplace #61 that cover featured Stan in July of 1998! - Top Photo Left Column:  A close up of the Comic Book Marketplace #61 issue, that was cover dated July of 1998.

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3572:

It's my annual 'Happy Birthday' Blog Card to Stan Lee! 

Stan turns 89 this year, and is still going strong in the world of comics, as seen at the recent Nuke the Fridge Con held in the City of Industry, California, where I set up a book signing table.  As seen at this special photo album: 2011 Nuke the Fridge Con Photo Album.

In addition, I have Stan Lee meeting Mike Tyson in a video upload as filmed at the same Nuke the Fridge Con, as seen here before the meet, and here during the actual 'duking' it out!

Stan Lee has was the First of those who I've listed as being one of those... "Whom I Am Thankful For", along with Engineer Bill, Sheriff John, Fess Parker, Jack Kirby, Shel Dorf, and Annette Funicello, in my annual Thanksgiving Blog. As seen in this cumulative blog post #3553 from the 2011 Thanksgiving blog! 

Of course everyone by know should know who Stan Lee is... But if you don't, here's a pretty good background wiki on Stan Lee in the Wikipedia web site.

Plus here's a link to Google, where there are now over 2,700 listing of just this Blog referencing him! 

Talking about numbers... Are you aware that there are over 36,740 credits attributed to Stan Lee at the Grand Comics DataBase, (GCD)?  What a prolific writer Stan has been throughout the years!

I shared one of the photos from the 1998 SDCC above at the top right, and here's another one from 1998 where Stan was signing another of my Fantastic Four comics, which is my favorite title that he co-created years ago back in 1961!

I've been fortunate enough to meet Stan several times during the years, mostly at Southern California comic cons.

The sheer mass of people nowadays at these conventions that want to meet Stan keeps the one-on-one aspect to a bare minimum.  As the recent autograph session at the Nuke the Fridge Con entitled an attendee an opporutunity to have an item autograph signed, and that was about it.  However, Stan, at 88 years of age, didn't take a signing break, but instead kept signing away until the last attendee with an autograph ticket was taken care of!  Now that's Stan (THE MAN!) Lee for ya!

My sincere wishes to Stan to have another great birthday today... And to keep it up!  You are truly loved by your Legions of Fans!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,654 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 

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