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Welcome to the Lehigh Valley's Largest Comic & Pop Culture Convention!

The Great Allentown Comic Con!

The Lehigh Valley's Largest Comic & Pop Culture Convention!

The Great Allentown Comic Con is the valley's largest comic & pop culture convention. As always, we are working hard to bring you an awesome show with talented artists, guests, dealers, family fun events, and great prizes!

Not sold out yet!! So be sure to buy your tickets now! You can purchase tickets online or at the door.

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Special Guests Highlights

Robert Picardo

Robert Picardo was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Robert Picardo ("Bob") graduated from the William Penn Charter School. He entered Yale University as a pre-med student, not knowing that he would someday portray doctors in three separate productions: first as Dr. Dick Richard on the ABC series "China Beach, "then as Dr. McCaskill in the theater production "In The Waiting Room" at the Mark Taper Forum, and now as The Doctor on "Star Trek: Voyager."

While at Yale, Bob landed a role in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," a musical theater piece originally commissioned for the 1972 opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 1974, armed with a B.A. in Drama from Yale, he enrolled at the Circle in the Square Professional Theater Workshop (fellow alumni include Kevin Bacon and Ken Olin). He waited tables for a couple of years, and then his theatrical work prospered (in 1976) when he appeared in the David Mamet play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and with Diane Keaton in "The Primary English Class."

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Peter Mayhew

Peter Mayhew grew up in England the son of a London Bobby. After treatment as a teenager for giantism, he went to work at a teaching hospital. While working there a reporter took a picture for a local paper of Mayhew carrying his mother to demonstrate his giant frame. Peter was seven foot four at the time. While this didn't make him the tallest man in England or win him a big foot contest, it did get him a job offer to appear in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as the Minoton. The next year, it got him an interview with George Lucas to play the quirky and lovable side kick of Han solo, Chewbacca the wookiee. After the filming of Star Wars, Mayhew returned to the job he loved as porter at Mayday Hospital in London. He was called back twice to reprise his role for Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

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Tom Kane

Tom Kane is a prominent American voice actor with over 25 years of experience. He is most widely known for his animation work. Notable roles are Jedi Master Yoda and Admiral Yularen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film and TV Series; The Chancellor in Tim Burton's 9, Magneto in Wolverine and the X-Men and Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds; Iron Man and Ultron in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow; Mr. Herriman, the House Manager in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends; Lord Monkey Fist on Kim Possible; Professor Utonium and Him in The Powerpuff Girls; and Darwin, Eliza's chimpanzee sidekick in The Wild Thornberrys. He is also a prominent video game voice actor, appearing on numerous titles - from bit parts, to major roles such as Gandalf and Professor Xavier, and lead characters in almost every Star Wars game ever made. In the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed he was "on-camera" as Imperial Captain Ozzik Sturn, Lobot, and also Kento Marek, the father of the protagonist: Galen Marek (Sam Witwer) - thanks to ILM's motion capture technology.

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Peter David

Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Television, film, books (fiction, non-fiction and audio), short stories, and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them.

In the literary field, Peter has had over fifty novels published, including numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestsellers List. His novels include Sir Apropos of Nothing (A “fast, fun, heroic fantasy satire” — Publishers Weekly) and the sequel The Woad to Wuin, Knight Life, Howling Mad, and the Psi-Man adventure series. He is the co-creator and author of the bestselling Star Trek: New Frontier series for Pocket Books, and has also written such Trek novels as Q-Squared, The Siege,, Vendetta, I, Q (with John deLancie), A Rock and a Hard Place and Imzadi. He produced the three Babylon 5 Centauri Prime novels, and has also had his short fiction published in such collections as Shock Rock, Shock Rock II, and Otherwere: Stories of Transformation, as well as Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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Terry Naughton

Terry Naughton is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to anything art related. He can handle various styles of art in literally every form of media known to man... and then some! Naughton worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation for 17 years as an animation assistant and storyboard artist. He's personally worked on every recent classic including The Little Mermaid (King Triton), Beauty and the Beast (the Beast) and Aladdin (the Genie) to name only a few.

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Khoi Pham

Khoi Pham is a penciller for Marvel Comics. He is currently working with Dan Slott on Mighty Avengers. His other published work includes Incredible Hercules, X-Factor, What If? Spiderman: Other, 1602 Fantastick Four, and Marvel Comics Presents. He is also featured in Image’s Wonderlost and Image’s Outlaw Territory.  He was for a time being both a lawyer and artist however in the middle of his run on The Incredible Hercules he switched to art full time. 

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Tommy Castillo

Tommy Castillo is a master artist of the twisted and the macabre. Whether creating a slimy corpse reaching for you or the gentle glance of a mighty dragon, Tommy will capture you with the dynamics of his penciling and the intensity of his palette. With a career spanning eighteen years, Tommy is famed and sought after for his dark humor, brilliant attention to detail, and his love of the darker side of art. Tommy has put paint and pencil to such titles as Batman Detective; Legends of the Dark Knight; Toetags, with Horror legend George Romero; Evil Ernie; Tales From the Crypt; Alice in Wonderland; King Kong; Dragons, Myths, and Mayhem; various storyboards and designs for films; and many more of the macabre based literature. Tommy has been sought out by the fields largest companies: DC comics, Paramount Pictures, Warhammer, Wizards of the Coast, and Image and as offbeat as Rolling Stone magazine.

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CANCELLED!!
Regrettably, Ian Abercrombie will not be attending the Great Allentown Comic Con! due to a scheduling conflict.

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Volunteers Needed!

The GACC is looking for a few good voluteers to help with upcoming shows. Perks? - Free meals for the day and a great opportunity to meet guests and dealers. Interested? - Email us at info@allentowncomiccon.com.

Links

• Zapp Comics
• Scificonventions.com
• Convention Scene
• Pug Productions
• Comic Geek Speak
• America's Most Wanted Collectibles
• Doug Baron
• Ultimate Comics Group
• Hot Flips
• Comic Cubes
• Gus Fink
• Fantasy Comics
• New World Manga
• Tedd Hazard
• Mytron Comics
• Mark McKenna
• Darrell "The Nightray" Goza
• Guns of Shadow Valley
• Adam Wilson
• Philly Sport Center
• Jim Kyle
• Captain Clockwork
• Gary Petras
• Knight Seeker
• Dutchy Digest

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