On Saturday March 31st, Mike Carbo’s Comic Comic Book Marketplace Convention is set to be held in Midtown Manhattan at the Hotel Pennsylvania located at 401 Seventh Ave. and 33rd St. directly across from Madison Square Garden and Penn Plaza. This exclusive show will host the legend of Comics Stan Lee from Marvel as well as over 100 booths featuring several vendors selling and buying comic books, new and vintage toys, Sci-fi paraphernalia, and most things pop-culture related.
The event will also include an exhibition area called “Artists Alley” that will have many prominent comic book artists and celebrity guests. The artists will be signing autographs and drawing sketches.
Some of the guests will include George Perez (the Avengers, The New Teen Titans), Joe Sinnott (Fantastic Four), Dick Ayers (Sgt. Fury), Carmine Infantino (The Flash), Jim Steranko (Nick Fury), Irwin Hasen (Dondi), Mike Royer(Forever People, New Gods), Arthur Suydam (Batman, Conan) , Bob McLeod (Hulk, The Phantom), Rich Buckler (Fantastic Four) , Johnny Brennan (Jerky Boys) and many more. Ethan Philips who portrayed Neelix on Star Trek ‘Voyager’ will also be in attendance greeting fans and signing autographs.
Show promoter, Mike Carbonaro said,
“The highlight of the convention will be the ‘Guest Of Honor’ Stan Lee. Stan revolutionized the comic book industry, contributing to define a unique post-modern American identity and consciousness in the process. His contributions as President and Chairman of Marvel Comics and the co-creator of Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four, THOR, and The X-Men will live on forever in the history of popular culture ”
Stan will at the show all day where he will be answering questions, signing autographs and offering photo opportunities that are definitely once in a lifetime.
Some extra events for this years show will include rivia contests, seminars on how to draw and write comic books, and how to appraise them, stand up comic book comedy, an Alfred E. Newman look-alike contest, and a Popular Culture collection appraisal booth.
New York’s best known and most successful comic book convention promoter since the 1970’s Michael Carbonaro’s newest one day show is sure to be a Sold-Out event. Make it a weekend in New York City. Group Rates and V.I.P. early admission available. Tickets are $12 and available online at www.nycbm.com AND select locations in the Tri-State area
Mike Carbo,host of the event and a master buyer and seller of comic books and collectibles as well as being internationally renowned for his knowledge of American comic books has also announced his retirement.
Carbo, also known as “The Prince of Pop Culture” states emphatically:
“I am only retiring from running my own comic book conventions. I will never retire from buying and selling comic books, and I have created my newest venture MIKE CARBO’s COMIC BOX to do just that!”
To kick off his latest venture, Carbo is hosting a very private but incredibly awesome two-hour party before the convention. The party will take place Friday March 30th from 7:30 TO 9:30PM at a still secret location in Manhattan. He will feature none-ther than Stan Lee as his guest of honor. There are less than a 100 tickets left for the events at $200 each but it includes a meet, greet and close up chat with Stan as well as an autograph and photo with “Generalissimo” by a professional photographer, not to mention a gourmet food bar.
This upcoming convention is set to be the very last for Carbo who has been buying and selling comics since the age of 10. After much success throughout high school Carbo began his own comic book convention business.
“My very first convention I ran myself was called the Rolling Rock Show, a ‘living’ rock’n’roll amusement park I created in April 1977,” he recalls. “That was followed by a show at Albert Hall in the old Americana Hotel, which I then followed with the very first Baseball Card Convention ever at Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets baseball team, where I sold tables for only $10 apiece, and still made a ton of money!”
From 1981 to 1997, Carbo ran his own very successful comic book store, Continental Comics, in Queens, New York. In 1996, Mike and Vincent Zurzuolo (presently of Metropolis Comics) created the very first Big Apple comic convention at St. Paul the Apostle church in Manhattan. After 12 years Big Apple had grown into the most successful privately owned comic convention in New York City, and was then bought by the giant WIZARD convention organization. Mike remains a consultant to Wizard to the present day.
A guru to the world of comics, you don’t want to miss out on his last convention bash on Saturday March 31st. It it sure to be an experience of a lifetime.
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