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By the time we got to Dallas Comic Con Saturday ’round 2:30, there was still a line snaking around the Irving Convention Center. Ben Stevens, the show’s co-organizer, guesstimated that some 8,000 attendees had walked through the door — enough to cause the con to run out of badges with still another day to go. And speaking of …
On Sunday Stan Lee, who was there for the births of Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk and the rest of Marvel’s Avengers and Invaders and X-Men, chatted up a packed house, as recounted over on The Mixmaster. And some of his chat’s making the national rounds — specifically, this clip, in which Lee talks about his cameos in the Marvel movies and gives away a plot point from director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man.
But for our purposes, our art director just happened to be around when Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt hopped in Lee’s meet-n-greet line so she could get a Spidey comic signed. Turns out, she’s a big fan. Though why Alex couldn’t be there when I met Leonard Nimoy is disappointing, to say the least, though probably for the best. Some more of Alex’s photos of Hunt and Stan the Man follow, with an all-con slide show on its way. Please tell me you got Power Girl, Alex. No reason.
