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HOURS:
Friday: 1PM-7PM
Saturday: 10AM-7PM
Sunday: 10AM-5PM
Baltimore Convention Center
1 W Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Big Apple Comic Con – November 22
Charlotte Comicon – December 7
Our friends at CGC Comics and James Spence Authentication – JSA will be offering ON-SITE GRADING and AUTOGRAPH AUTHENTICATION at the 2025 Heroes Convention!
We hope you all know that the 2025 HeroesCon is right around the corner, June 20-22 at the Charlotte Convention Center.
We’ve been working harder than ever to make this year’s HeroesCon our best yet!
We still have a LOT of work to do to get ready for the show, such as posting our 2025 Artist Alley Table participants, getting panels scheduled, and MORE!
So make sure to purchase your tickets today!
Before we get to the HeroesCon festivities, we will be hosting Free Comic Book Day, this Saturday, May 3rd.
The store will be open regular hours that day from 10am – 7pm, with a small but spectacular group of Artists joining us from 1pm-6pm doing sketches!
Artists joining us for this year’s FCBD:
John Burgin
Bridgit Connell
Sanford Greene
John Hairston Jr.
Brian Stelfreeze
It’s been an unusual time for comic book stores all across the country this year as we navigate changes in distribution throughout the industry.
As a result of this, along with a multitude of other factors, this year’s Free Comic Book Day is going to be a little different. Most notably, the number of “Free Comic Book Day” exclusive books we will have available will be extremely limited in quantity.
To help supplement our stock of “FREE” books, Shelton will be bringing out our back-stock of $1 comics, and we will allow customers to select up to 10 books from the $1 stock for FREE on Saturday, May 3!
“Free Comic Day Exclusive Comics” will be limited to no more than 3 per person, with no duplicates, and those 3 will count against your 10 “free” titles.
We will have staff on hand to help navigate the proceedings.
We are happy to have Free Comic Book Day back again, but we also want to make sure we have comics available for as many customers as possible.
Free Comic Book Day will be lots of fun for everyone, and a great way to kick off the HeroesCon season!
Just a reminder: PLEASE DO NOT PARK ACROSS THE STREET at the PECAN POINT SHOPPING CENTER. They WILL BOOT YOUR CAR.
We recommend finding on-street parking on 8th Street or Pecan Avenue.
As always, we appreciate your enthusiasm and continued support!
The Charlotte Mini-Con will return to the Grady Cole Center on Saturday, February 1 from 11am-5pm!
Packed wall to wall with some of the BEST Comic-Book Dealers in the country, and an incredible lists of comic creators and local artists, the Charlotte Mini-Con is a MUST for comic-book lovers and collectors of all ages!!
Kids 16 and Under get in FREE with a paying, attending, adult!
Tickets are $5 in advance, and wil also be available at the door.
The Grady Cole Center has updated its bag policy for the Charlotte Mini-Con to allow REGULAR bags, diaper bags, purses, boxes, etc, entry to the premises – as long as all items are submitted for a bag check! You are good to bring your backpacks, your reusable shopping bags, and your boxes of comics to the show!
There is a $15 parking fee to park
at the Grady Cole Center.
To soften the sting of the parking charge, we ask that you bring your parking receipt inside to the Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find booth, where we will exchange your parking receipt for items worth AT LEAST $15-$20!
We recommend carpooling, or taking a Lyft or an Uber, but you might also consider taking advantage of the Light Rail CityLynx Gold Line. There is a walkable stop located at CPCC: See More Info About the Gold Line Here
The Grady Cole Center is a old building, with lots of local history attached! The one down-side to that history is that there are five steps, and no ramps to the entrance of the building. If you need ADA accessibility, please let the attendant at the entrance to the back of the building know that you require ADA access.
We look forward to seeing you at the Charlotte Mini-Con!!
You can see a full list of Artists, Exhibitors and Featured Guests – as well as maps of the upper and lower floors on our website:
https://www.heroesonline.com/CLT-Mini-Con/
ADAM CASEY | Artist Annex: AA-9
ARTNESS! BY JUSTIN BROWN | Artist Annex: AA-12
BEAR BUTT COMICS | Artist Annex: AA-15
CHRISTOPHER MCJUNKIN | Artist Annex: AA-3
DANNY J. QUICK – ACEBLADE | Artist Annex: AA-22
ELIZABETH HONEYCUTT | Artist Annex: AA-5
ESSENTIAL COMICS | Artist Annex: AA-20
GENE SHANKS | Artist Annex: AA-25
HAIR KLAUDT | Artist Annex: AA-1/AA-2
ILLUST888 – TONY SCOTT | Artist Annex: AA-16
IYRIN COMIC | Artist Annex: AA-18
JUST CHAD | Artist Annex: AA-17
KEVIN HARDIN ILLUSTRATION | Artist Annex: AA-13
LUKE FOSTER | Artist Annex: AA-6
LYLE POLLARD | Artist Annex: AA-4
POPCYCLED BAUBLES | Artist Annex: AA-7/AA-8
RO LAMB | Artist Annex: AA-23
SEAN WILLIAMS, II | Artist Annex: AA-11
SPANDEX SPLINTERS | Artist Annex: AA-26
TIFFANY COMICS | Artist Annex: AA-10
WILLIAM WITHERS | Artist Annex: AA-24
WOLLY MCNAIR | Artist Annex: AA-21
WOODYSBEADS | Artist Annex: AA-19
XOMIK BUK | Artist Annex: AA-14
The Charlotte Mini-Con features some of the BEST COMIC-BOOK DEALERS of ANY SHOW in the Country. You’re sure to find GREAT DEALS, RARE BOOKS, and lots of items you didn’t even KNOW you needed!
The Grady Cole Center Prohibits the possession of the following on its premises:
• Weapons of any kind and size, including guns, knives, scissors and those carried with a permit.
All bags will be subject to a thorough search upon entry to the Grady Cole Center.
HeroesCon 2025 Tickets will go on sale this Friday, November 29, at MIDNIGHT!!
(Thanksgiving Night!)
Just like last year, we will be offering THREE different ticket options for our 2025 show:
VIP EARLY BIRD 3-DAY PASS
3-DAY ADVANCE PASS
SINGLE DAY ADVANCE PASS
We will also be dropping our FIRST ROUND of FEATURED GUEST ANNOUNCEMENTS on Friday as well!!
Stay Tuned! It’s gonna be a DOOZY!!
#HeroesCon2025 #HeroesConTickets #ReadMoreComics
From Shelton Drum:
“I have offered a pull and hold service for almost 50 years. I started holding subscriptions 5 years before I opened Heroes as a brick-and-mortar! Most comics back then were 40 cents. Today, $2.99 is the lowest price for a new comic (there are only a few), most are $4-$8 with special issues costing as much as $10-$12. The math is vastly different than when I started.
I really can’t afford to “hold” inventory past the promised time frame.
I’ve been lenient with the rules for a long time, but I cannot continue with the new realities of net cost on comic books. The rules on the Reserve Customer Agreement will be strictly enforced beginning in January 2025. I will be sending you an invoice this month in hopes you will bring your account up to date, and we can start fresh in January. Ideally, we would love to see you every week!
Going forward, you will receive an invoice if you have anything that has been on hold for 30 days. As per the agreement you signed when starting your account, you will have 48 hours to pick up all of your comics, or pay the invoice online. We will hold “paid comics” for you until you come to pick up or ask us to ship them to you.
Thank you for shopping with Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find! Some you have been for over 40 years and I’m very proud of that and forever grateful! Let’s go for at least another 40!”
HSD
11/15/2024
Be sure to get your tickets to the 2024 Heroes Convention June 14-16, and check out our full FEATURED GUEST LIST on our website!
#HeroesCon #HeroesConvention #ReadMoreComics
Come out to Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find on Saturday, May 18 from 2pm-5pm to meet Artist and Co-Writer of the new DOOM one-shot, Sanford Greene!
IN-STORE WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 :: $6.99
IN THE NEAR FUTURE…DOOM ALONE MUST SAVE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!
Legendary creators Jonathan Hickman and Sanford Greene send Doctor Doom on a journey unlike any he has undertaken before! With Valeria Richards at his side, Doom goes on a quest to harness more power than any human has ever wielded before in order to try to stop Galactus from bringing about the death of the universe!
Rated T+
We hope you all know that the 2024 HeroesCon is right around the corner, June 14-16 at the Charlotte Convention Center.
We’ve been working harder than ever to make this year’s HeroesCon our best yet!
We still have few incredible Featured Guests to add to our already ENORMOUS Featured Guest Lists, as well as posting our 2024 Artist Alley participants, and MORE!
So make sure to purchase your three day passes today!
Before we get to the HeroesCon festivities, we will be hosting Free Comic Book Day, this Saturday, May 4th. The store will be open regular hours that day from 10am – 7pm, with a small but spectacular group of Artists joining us from 1pm-6pm doing sketches!
Artists joining us for this year’s FCBD:
John Burgin
Bridgit Connell
Sanford Greene
John Hairston Jr.
Brian Stelfreeze
Stephanie Williams
We will have staff on hand to help navigate the proceedings. As in years past, taking multiple copies of Free Comic Day issues will be prohibited. We’re happy to have Free Comic Book Day back again, but we also want to make sure we have comics available for as many customers as possible.
Free Comic Book Day will be lots of fun for everyone, and a great way to kick off HeroesCon season!
As always, we appreciate your enthusiasm and continued support!
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For the first time in more than four years, CGC will be offering on-site grading for comic books! Submit your comics for on-site grading at booth #101, June 14-15 (plus we’ll be accepting a limited number of WalkThrough submissions until noon on June 16), and get them back before the end of the show. Read on for pricing and more details.
Certified Guaranty Company® (CGC®) is excited to announce on-site comic book grading at Heroes Convention Charlotte, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 14-16, 2024. That’s right, get your books back by the end of the show!
Regular submissions of comics, cards, video games and home video collectibles will also be accepted, and collectors can look forward to giveaways, swag and signings — all at booth #101!
The Heroes Convention (“HeroesCon”) has gained renown for its emphasis on comics and its welcoming environment for all ages. It offers a unique opportunity for fans to engage directly with industry professionals and exhibitors, with a stellar lineup of guests like John Beatty, Mark Buckingham, Amy Chu and Skottie Young and MANY MORE!
CGC is offering on-site grading at this year’s HeroesCon for all Universal and Signature Series comic book submissions. On-site grading, including ReHolder submissions, will be available Friday, June 14, through Saturday, June 15. A very limited quantity of WalkThrough submissions will still be accepted on Sunday, June 16, until 12:00 p.m. All you need is a free CGC account to submit for on-site grading, but paid members receive discounts (and other benefits). Learn more and select your membership level here.
On-site grading submissions are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. CGC expects extremely high demand and space is limited, so submitters are encouraged to submit at the start of the show. If on-site grading submissions need to be cut off early, submissions will still be accepted for grading at CGC headquarters at the regular fees and turnaround times.
In the next few weeks, the CGC online submission form will be updated to show on-site grading services and fees at HeroesCon. Look for an announcement when the on-site grading submission option is available.
CGC Comics On-site Grading Free Member Pricing:
| Grading Tier / Service | Fee | Turnaround Time |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Max. Value: $400 |
$40 | End of Show |
| Vintage Max. Value: $400 |
$60 | End of Show |
| High Value Max. Value: $1,000 |
$110 | End of Day |
| WalkThrough Max. Value: Unlimited |
5% FMV ($125 min.) | 3 Hours |
| ReHolder Max. Value: $1,000 |
$40 | End of Day |
| High Value ReHolder Max. Value: Unlimited |
$75 | 3 Hours |
CGC Comics Signature Series On-site Grading Free Member Pricing:
| Grading Tier / Service | Fee | Turnaround Time |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Max. Value: $400 |
$60 | End of Show |
| Vintage Max. Value: $400 |
$80 | End of Show |
| High Value Max. Value: $1,000 |
$130 | End of Day |
| WalkThrough Max. Value: Unlimited |
5% FMV ($145 min.) | 3 Hours |
| ReHolder Max. Value: $1,000 |
$40 | End of Day |
| High Value ReHolder Max. Value: Unlimited |
$75 | 3 Hours |
Fans also won’t want to miss lots of fun happening at CGC booth #101 all weekend long! In addition to our popular pin giveaway, we will have the limited-edition 2024 pins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Wolverine and the 85th anniversary of Batman. Plus, we’ll be offering giveaway prize opportunities! Stay tuned for further email and social announcements about giveaway opportunities leading up to the show.
Be sure to get your books prepped with the updated CGC Signature Series online submission form to save you a lot of time at the show! Watch this short video to learn how to get this process started:https://www.youtube.com/embed/B8MyOvl0hFY?si=8MVpzuHCCA7xGerg
To spend more time enjoying the show, submit your prepared collectibles through the Express Drop-off Service, which enables you to skip the line and quickly hand off your prepared submission to a CGC representative.
Please take the following steps before arriving:
All submissions will be transported to CGC’s headquarters in Sarasota, Florida, for authentication, grading and encapsulation.
Tablets will be provided at the booth for submitters to use for sign-up and submission purposes.
All CGC services can be reached at (+1) 855-GRADE10 (855-472-3310).
Since revolutionizing comic book grading in 2000, CGC has grown to include certification services for a vast variety of pop culture collectibles. These divisions include CGC Cards, CGC Video Games and CGC Home Video. CGC Cards provides expert card grading for sports cards, TCGs and non-sports cards. CGC Video Games is dedicated to video game grading for the most popular consoles, including Nintendo, Sega, Atari, PlayStation and more. CGC Home Video provides expert VHS grading in addition to other types of videocassettes, DVD, blu-ray and more.
Read more: https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/12813/heroescon-2024/
