The Charlotte Mini-Con Returns!!
Saturday, February 1
Grady Cole Center
11am-5pm

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.

BAG POLICY UPDATE!!

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!

PARKING

There is a $15 parking fee to park
at the Grady Cole Center.

PARKING INCENTIVE

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/

ARTISTS ANNEX UPSTAIRS:

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

A COMIC COLLECTOR’S DREAM!!

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!

• ALL AMERICAN COMICS & COLLECTIBLES: 215-216
• BEARDY WEIRDY’S COMICS & TOYS: A-1
• BURKE STREET COMICS: C:12-13
• BUZZARD BROTHERS COMICS: 209-211
• CAPITOL COMICS: 313-314
• CAPTIVATING COMICS: C-4
• CBCS
• CHRIS FOSS RARE COMICS & COLLECTABLES: B:6-8
• COMIC SANCTUM: B:3-5
• DALE MOODY’S COMICS: 205-206
• DAVE’S COMICS: C:8-9
• DAVID BURNS: C-5
• DAVID SHANKLE: C: 6-7
• EARL SHAW’S COMICS: A: 13-15
• EASTGATE COMICS: B: 1-2
• FEARLESS READERS: A:11-12
• HEROES AREN’T HARD TO FIND: 201-204
• JASON HAMLIN: 212-213
• KARL TERRANA: C-3
• MORE FUN COMICS: 311-312
• MURPH’S COMICS: A:9-10
• NERF HERDER COMICS: A:2-3
• PAINTED VISIONS: 301-303
• PARK CIRCLE COMICS: A:6-8
• RACE CITY COMICS: A:4-5
• REBEL BASE COMICS & TOYS: 308-310
• RICHARD FORTENBERRY: C:10-11
• SMASHER’S COMICS:206-207
• TNT COMICS: 306-307

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 + First Round Featured Guest Announcements Drop THIS FRIDAY!!

Just in time for the Holidays!!

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

Support Small Business Success, keep your Reserve Bag in good standing!

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

CHANGES GOING FORWARD:

• PLEASE PROVIDE A DETAILED LIST OF TITLES YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE.
  If you have a preference on open order covers please notate that as well. Ratio variants are first come, first served and sold at a net price.
  *Nothing is guaranteed to be held for you if it is not specifically on your list.

• IF YOU HAVE NOT COLLECTED YOUR RESERVE FOR 30 DAYS, A TOTAL INVOICE WILL BE SENT TO THE PROVIDED E-MAIL ADDRESS.
  *If arrangements to satisfy the invoice are not made within 48 hours, items from your Reserve Bag will go back on the rack for sale and your Reserve Bag will be discontinued.
• CONTINUED FAILURE TO CLEAR RESERVE WILL RESULT IN CANCELLATION OF RESERVE BAG.

Team Cul de Sac and Cheap Joes Team Up to help Western North Carolina Schools with Art Supplies

Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find and the Heroes Convention are honored to consider Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Team Cul de Sac as a part of our family.

Not only that, but Cheap Joe’s serves as the Art Supply Sponsor for our Live Art Stage, Friday Evening Drink and Draw for Team Cul de Sac, AND for our Quick Draw events…as well as being THE PLACE for artists to re-stock their art supplies during our show each year!

Both Cheap Joe’s AND Team Cul de Sac are based out of Asheville, NC, which, as most of you will know, was hit INCREDIBLY HARD by Hurricane Helene.

Team Cul de Sac would like to gather as many art supplies for the Asheville and Swannanoa Elementary and Middle School kids as possible to help kids create as their community rebuilds.

The best of the best, Miss Aly Perez from Cheap Joes is willing to assist this cause by creating $15 individual art packets to donate to these area schools. ($15 = One Packet per student)

Cheap Joes is still operating without internet services, so Team Cul de Sac has offered to handle donations. This effort will not only help the community, but will also help out the art community AND a local small business!

If you are able, and would like to send a monetary donation through Team Cul de Sac, you may do so through Venmo.

https://account.venmo.com/u/Chris-Sparks-24

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If you are local to the Asheville area, you can donate in person at Cheap Joes by purchasing supplies.

You can call Cheap Joes directly at 1-828-518-6019 and ask for Aly. She should have photos of the packs next week.

We appreciate any help that you can offer to our friends and community!!

Batman Day 2024

Celebrate Batman’s 85th anniversary, on September 21st, during “Batman Day 2024” at IPH.

Created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, Batman was introduced in 1939’s comic book Detective Comics #27 and since then the Dark Knight has stood as a symbol of determination, courage, and justice to generations of fans for over 85 years and as a film and television icon for almost as long.

Celebrate Batman Day this year with our friends at the Independent Picture House, and make it a fun-filled weekend with the whole family!!

Independent Picture House

is located at:
4237 Raleigh St. Charlotte, NC 28213

SHOWTIMES:

MASK OF THE PHANTASM :: 3 PM
BATMAN – THE MOVIE (1966) :: 4:50 PM
BATMAN (1989) :: 7:15 PM, 9:30 PM

TICKETS:

$8.45 per person

HEROES HEADS TO THE

25TH ANNIVERSARY

BALTIMORE COMIC-CON

SEPTEMBER 20-22!

Baltimore Convention Center
One West Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Show Hours:
Friday: 1pm-7pm
Saturday: 10am-7pm
Sunday: 10am-5pm

Kids 10 and under get in FREE with a paying adult

Don’t miss Shelton & the Heroes Crew at the Charlotte Comicon this Sunday, August 11!

Sunday, August 11

10AM-4PM

CHARLOTTE COMICON

Admission: $5.00
Kids 12 & Under: FREE

The Charlotte Comicon will be held at:

Embassy Suites – Concord Convention Center
5400 John Q Hammons Dr NW
Concord, NC 28027

August 16-18: Terrificon
Sunday, August 25: Raleigh Comic Book Show
September 20-22: Baltimore Comic-Con

IN-STORE SIGNING with

20th Place Media’s

Carlton & Darrick Hargro!!

@20thplacemedia founders/publishers Carlton Hargro (@hargroc) and Darrick Hargro will be at Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find for an IN-STORE SIGNING of their Brand New Comic Book
Nia Griggs & The Kemetic Sisterhood of Science #2

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 :: 1PM-5PM

Be there to get your hands on the latest, action-packed release…and meet the brothers behind the project!

#Underthewatertower #StoreSigning #NiaGriggs #ReadMoreComics #IndieComics

THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR 2024 HEROESCON A HUGE SUCCESS!

The Heroes Convention would like to offer our most sincere THANKS, APPRECIATION, and LOVE for making our 2024 show the most successful ever in our 42-year history!

Our small staff could not do it without EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU:
Our fans and attendees; the artists and artisans in ARTISTS ALLEY; our amazing EXHIBITORS, both long-time and new this year; KELLIE and the whole team from Carolina Tradeshow Decorators; TED WOOLFORD, CMP, CEM, Senior Event Manager at the Charlotte Convention Center; the costumers and cosplayers, especially DJ SPIDER, KALLISTE COSPLAY, and AMBERLE LINNEA, who bring the wonder; the dedicated and overworked volunteers, the astounding HeroesCon SIDEKICKS; and the inspiring and magnificent CREATORS behind the comic books and characters we all love, the colorists and color artists, the letterers, the inkers, the pencilers, cartoonists, painters, and artists, the writers, and editors who works we celebrate!

The Heroes Convention will return the week AFTER Father’s Day,
June 20-22, 2025!

We have compiled a HEROESCON 2024 Playlist on Youtube
if you would like to relive this year’s show!

GET YOUR TICKET FOR THE

VIP MEET & GREET with

JOHN ROMITA JR.

Saturday, June 15 :: 5pm-7pm

Tickets for the VIP MEET AND GREET are $250/each

YOU MUST HAVE ALSO PURCHASED A TICKET TO THE HEROES CONVENTION TO PARTICIPATE.

VIP MEET AND GREET TICKET INCLUDES:

• ONE (1) PRE-DRAWN, ORIGINAL ART HEADSHOT OF CHOICE FROM: SPIDER-MAN, DAREDEVIL, WOLVERINE, THOR, BATMAN OR IRON MAN
• TEN (10) SIGNATURES ON ITEMS OF YOUR CHOICE. (CGC WITNESSING AVAILABLE. MAY INCUR ADDITIONAL FEE.)
• ONE (1) EXCLUSIVE PRINT OF FULL FIGURE SPIDER-MAN
• PHOTO OPPORTUNITY & ONE ON ONE TIME WITH JOHN ROMITA JR.
• ALL TICKETED MEET AND GREET ATTENDEES (SATURDAY & SUNDAY) WILL BE ENTERED INTO A RAFFLE FOR AN EXCLUSIVE FULL-FIGURE SPIDER-MAN ORIGINAL DRAWING

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