Spider-Man's 60th anniversary is celebrated at San Diego's Comic-Con Museum. Photo by Getty Images By Roy Schwartz July 20, 2022 Comic-Con International: San Diego, better known as San Diego Comic-Con, returns July 21–24 after a COVID-imposed three-year break. An estimated 135,000 fans will be making a pilgrimage to the pop culture mecca to celebrate not just comics (to the chagrin of some purists), but movies, TV shows, video games, novels, animation, toys, collectibles and anything else even tangentially related. Comic conventions have exploded in popularity over the last two decades, with nearly 500 in different sizes taking place across the...