Stan Lee headlines long list of comic book creators for MegaCon 2012
Marvel’s legend Stan Lee will return to Orlando this month for the 2012 MegaConvention. Hundreds of fans will swarm to the Convention Center on February 17-19 to see popular comic book creators.
Lee’s resume and popularity has transcended the comic book shop and even the most distant human is familiar with ‘Stan the Lee’.
Joining Marvel’s creator is an impressive list of names in the comic business (in order from the MegaCon website):
Tony Bedard – Exiles, Green Lantern Corp and Green Lantern New Guardians
Allen Bellman – Famous Golden Age artist who worked on the early Captain America comics. More here
Dennis Calero – Legion of Superheroes, X-Men Noir, X-factor
J. Scott Campbell – Spider-Man, co-creator of Gen 13.
Greg Capullo – X-Force, Spawn and (one of my favorites) What If–Daredevil Killed Kingpin for Marvel Comics
Sergio Cariello – Action Bible, Spider-girl and Superman
Frank Cho – New Ultimates, Liberty Meadows as well as Mighty Avengers relaunch in 2007 and a couple issues of New Avengers.
Amanda Conner – Terra, Powergirl
Darwyn Cooke – Catwoman, DC: New Frontier, The Spirit
Chuck Dixon – Famous comic creator: Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Iron Man, the Punisher, The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, GI Joe and many others.
David Finch – Batman: The Dark Knight, New Avengers and Cyberforce. (Check out Batman issue #700 cover here) I reviewed and highly recommended “Batman: Dark Knight #1 – read here.
Paul Gulacy – Jonah Hex, JSA Classified
Cully Hamner – Blue Beetle, Green Lantern: Mosaic
Phil Hester – Green Arrow, Wonder Woman, The Darkness
Greg Horn – Elektra, Emma Frost
Rob Hunter – Batman, Blackest Night, Justice League
Dan Jurgens – cover to the famous Superman #75, Death of Superman; Teen Titans, Superman, Justice League International and Green Arrow.
Bob Layton – Iron Man, Valiant Universe
Clay Mann – X-Men Legacy, Elektra
Pablo Marcos – Conan, Red Sonja, Star Trek: Next Generation
Sheldon Moldoff – Golden Age artist on Batman (read more about his visit to the Tampa Comic Con here)
Phil Noto – Avengers: Origins, Batgirl
Jimmy Palmiotti – Famous comic book inker wth a long resume and co-creator of Ash
Paul Pelletier – Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four
George Perez – Comic Book icon who has worked on…nevermind. If you need me to tell you who George Perez is or has done, then turn in your comic book geek card and go to the mall.
Mike Perkins – Death of Captain America, The Stand and countless Marvel covers (More on Mike, here)
Brandon Peterson – Uncanny X-Men, Ultimate Extinction
Brian Pulido – Lady Death, Evil Ernie
Don Rosa – Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck
Stephane Roux – Birds of Prey, Supergil
Tim Sale – Daredevil: Yellow, Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory
Alex Saviuk – Stan Lee Mighty 7, Spider-man newspaper strip (More here)
Bill Sienkiewicz – monster long resume, Elektra: Assassin was my first Sienkiewicz work. New Mutants, Fantastic Four and the cover to “Batman #400″
Karl Story – Batman: The Return, Astonishing X-Men
Arthur Suydam – Marvel Zombies – great stories, don’t want to miss this guy (Check it out here)
Mark Texiera – Ghost Rider, Mortal Combat
Frank Tieri – New Excalibur, Iron Man
Tim Townsend – X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man
Billy Tucci – Jonah Hex, creator of Shi
Zeb Wells – Robot Chicken, Amazing Spider-Man
and many other names…
MegaCon 2012
Feb. 17th – 19th, 2012
Orange County Convention Center Hall D
9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819
Friday February 17th — 1pm – 7pm
Saturday February 18th — 10am – 6pm
Sunday February 19th — 10am – 5pm