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All 84 variant Detective Comics #1000 covers complete checklist &...
Detective Comics, the title DC Comics took its name from, first hit the shelves of newsstands just before March 1937, 26 months before Batman would first appear in the famous Issue #27 in May 1939....
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Comic book writers and artists featured this weekend at Planet Comicon Kansas...
As expected Saturday at Planet Comicon Kansas City 2019 meant a great turnout for the annual convention, with tens of thousands of fans from the Midwest converging on the Kansas City Convention Center...
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Planet Comicon Kansas City 2019 is a wrap
Happy April! Planet Comicon Kansas City wrapped its 2019 convention yesterday, another great show this time highlighting the event’s 20th anniversary. We snapped several photographs of sights we’re...
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A tribute to Peter Mayhew, 1944-2019
Peter Mayhew, the actor known best for playing Chewbacca in all three Star Wars trilogies, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2019, according to a message distributed by his family yesterday. I was lucky...
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Celebrities from TV and film head to Planet Comicon Kansas City in two weeks
The Ninth Doctor, Darth Vader, Superman, James Bond’s Q, Lt. Cmdr. Data, Ahsoka Tano, Ariel-The Little Mermaid, a Mythbuster, a slate of characters from the CW Arrowverse, Stranger Things, and The...
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Planet Comicon Kansas City 2020 postponed due to coronavirus
***Update*** The mayor of Kansas City has ordered the delay of all events with greater than 1,000 people in the city for 21 days, due to the city’s declaration of emergency for coronavirus/COVID-19....
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ST 4–An all-new, second glimpse at the fourth season of Stranger Things
It may not seem like it, but it’s been an entire year and a half since we last saw a glimpse at what lies ahead on Stranger Things. Check it out here if you need a refresher. It seems a little…...
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From Superheroes to Supernatural– Planet Comicon Kansas City returns this week
Darth Vader, Flash Gordon, The Incredible Hulk, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, characters from Supernatural, the CW Arrowverse, Stranger Things, Star Trek, Laverne & Shirley, The Brady Bunch, The...
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Planet Comicon Kansas City returns Friday with writers and artists behind...
Friday the pop culture convention Planet Comicon Kansas City is back, this time to celebrate its 21st year. The event hosts a pantheon of nationally recognized writers and artists for its eighth year...
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Planet Comicon Kansas City 2021 wraps after big weekend of celebrities,...
After a year-and-a-half delay from the COVID pandemic, the pop culture convention Planet Comicon Kansas City slipped in what may be a final convention circuit event for 2021 this weekend, as COVID...
View ArticleThousands attend Midwest’s annual “Planet Comicon” convention
By C.J. Bunce One of the Midwest’s best pop culture and comic book conventions was this past weekend, Planet Comicon, which has been Kansas City’s largest fan convention for more than a dozen years....
View ArticlePlanet Comicon announces advance ticket sales
Planet Comicon announced this weekend that advance tickets for Planet Comicon 2013 are now available for sale. This year Planet Comicon is Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM – 7 PM and Sunday, April...
View ArticleActors we can’t get enough of — Ray Park
Kansas City’s Planet Comicon announced today that actor and stuntman Ray Park will be one of the headliners of this year’s event April 6-7, 2013 at the Kansas City Convention Center downtown at Bartle...
View ArticleTime for a Planet Comicon roadtrip? Do or do not, there is no “try”
Never been to a comic book or pop culture convention before? Always wanted to go to San Diego Comic-Con but you don’t have the vacation time to take or the funds? Planet Comicon is this weekend in...
View ArticleHighlights from Planet Comicon 2013 Day One
The biggest and best pop culture and comic book convention in Kansas City’s history was held this weekend as Planet Comicon 2013 filled the Bartle Hall at the Kansas City Convention Center with...
View ArticleHighlights from Planet Comicon Day Two
After a crazy day of an insane volume of fans storming Bartle Hall in Kansas City Saturday for the biggest Planet Comicon event in more than a dozen years of events, it seemed like everyone came back...
View ArticleOriginal comic art gallery–Green Arrow & Black Canary and the Bionic Man
This year I continued my Comicon season by commissioning sketches from comic book artists of my favorite characters, Green Arrow and Black Canary. I always like to let the artists do whatever vision...
View ArticleKansas City to host Star Trek: The Next Generation 20 Year Reunion in March 2014
Planet Comicon, the Midwest’s premiere pop culture and comic book convention, will host a 20-year reunion of members of the bridge crew of the Enterprise-D at The Star Trek: The Next Generation Reunion...
View ArticleWilliam Shatner joins Next Generation cast for Planet Comicon 2014
Planet Comicon announced that Captain James T. Kirk himself, William Shatner, will be a featured guest at Planet Comicon 2014. He will join seven members of the previously announced cast of Star Trek:...
View ArticleThe Seventh Doctor! The Hobbit’s Wizard Radagast! Sylvester McCoy to appear...
If you had any doubts about this year’s Planet Comicon being the biggest and best comic book and pop culture convention in the history of the region, you might not have been paying attention. With...
View ArticleTREKtacular ticket alert! Shatner to host once-in-a-lifetime Midwest event...
An awesome way to wrap up three days of convention activities, TREKtacular is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for fanboys and fangirls to see some of the biggest Star Trek names all in one place in a...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon to feature professional make-up artist
Are you ready to take your cosplay to the next level? borg.com and Planet Comicon are excited to bring a professional make-up artist to Planet Comicon for the first time. Make-up artist Gene Flaharty...
View ArticleSneak preview–Planet Comicon exclusives from Elite Comics
Planet Comicon 2014 begins tomorrow! Elite Comics has several awesome exclusives for Planet Comicon, and we’ve got a first look at some of them here at borg.com. These will be for sale to attendees of...
View ArticleGet your fantasy fix starting today at Planet Comicon 2014
In addition to what you might expect from a large comic book convention, from comic book creators to celebrities to vendors and panels, this weekend’s Planet Comicon 2014 has several fantasy-themed...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon 2014 — Day One
Planet Comicon 2014 got off to a great start Friday, with vendors filling the venue at Bartle Hall in Kansas City, Missouri, and many celebrities appearing on the first day. Sylvester McCoy (Doctor...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon 2014 — Day Three
Planet Comicon 2014 wrapped today, bringing to close the region’s biggest and best comic book and pop culture convention ever. The best was saved for last with the TREKtacular reunion of the Star...
View ArticleWhy are you here? Fandom, Run DMC and unexpected heroes
Why are you here? To read? To learn something? To kill time? OK, not why are you “here” at this website. Think Big Picture: Why are you here? To narrow the gap between the rich and the poor? To...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg will be… The Six Billion Dollar Man!
Finally Steve Austin will make it to the big screen 42 years after Martin Caidin first created the man who was barely alive, rebuilt, better, stronger and faster than he was before in his novel Cyborg....
View ArticlePlanet Comicon gearing up to be a big, BIG show in March 2015
Oliver Queen, Supergirl, Firestorm, Captain Jack Harkness, Amy Pond, and Princess Buttercup’s Westley all set to appear For more than a decade Planet Comicon has been one of the Midwest’s biggest comic...
View ArticlePi Day, Archie Comics, and this weekend’s Party on the Pillar 2
Never before has a confluence of events ever pointed to you needing to be at one place at one moment. First, this Saturday is March 14–the annual Pi Day. If you’ve forgotten all you learned about...
View ArticleThird annual Planet Comicon at Bartle Hall begins today
The biggest pop culture and comic book convention ever in the region begins today. It’s the third annual Planet Comicon to be held in its new venue–the Kansas City Convention Center at Bartle Hall....
View ArticlePlanet Comicon 2015 in photos
Plenty of fun was in store for everyone attending Planet Comicon 2015 this weekend. With the Big 12 Championship basketball tourney between the Iowa State Cyclones and the Kansas Jayhawks, downtown...
View ArticleGreen Arrow and Black Canary actors headline Planet Comicon 2015
The three-day Planet Comicon comic book and pop culture convention wrapped yesterday in Kansas City. The highlight of the day for thousands of attendees was the one-day visit to the show by Stephen...
View ArticleGetting our creative fix with local creators at Planet Comicon 2015
In addition to great creators from outside the Midwest, like Black Widow artist Phil Noto (as we mentioned here at borg.com yesterday), the great thing about returning to a Con year after year is...
View ArticleMore cosplay from Planet Comicon 2015
We’ve already shown some photos of a great set of little green army men as well as the best Arrow cosplay from Planet Comicon 2015, but we have a few more images to share. Not surprisingly, with a new...
View ArticleA salute to the sixth man on the Moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell,...
I have been lucky enough to meet three Apollo astronauts and one of those was Edgar Mitchell (pictured above, right), who passed away this week in Florida at age 85. Forty-five years ago–February 5,...
View ArticleFourth Planet Comicon at Bartle Hall lands this weekend–Who to look for
In addition to great creators from outside the Midwest, like legendary writer/artist Howard Chaykin, artist Bill Sienkiewicz, and of course, Stan “The Man” Lee, the great thing about returning to a Con...
View ArticleBarrens Issue #1 variant cover sells out in a flash
Project-Nerd Publishing’s new series Barrens spread like wildfire last weekend at its debut at Kansas City’s Planet Comicon. The regular first issue of the series is still available at the publisher’s...
View ArticleHappy Birthday! borg.com reaches five year anniversary
Hey, looks like we made it! Five years ago today, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Art Schmidt, Jason McClain, and I had already spent a few months talking through the technical details for the launch of borg.com....
View ArticleTime for a Planet Comicon roadtrip? Do or do not, there is no “try”
Never been to a comic book or pop culture convention before? Always wanted to go to San Diego Comic-Con but you don’t have the vacation time available or the funds? Planet Comicon is next weekend in...
View ArticleMeet celebrities from film and TV at this year’s Planet Comicon in Kansas City
Never been to a comic book or pop culture convention? Always wanted to go to San Diego Comic-Con but you don’t have the vacation time available or the funds? Planet Comicon is next weekend in Kansas...
View ArticleMeet your favorite comic book writers and artists at Planet Comicon Kansas...
This weekend Planet Comicon Kansas City is featuring a pantheon of nationally recognized comic book writers and artists at its sixth year in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The show begins tomorrow at...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon to celebrate 20 years with comic book legends Claremont,...
In less than four weeks pop culture convention Planet Comicon Kansas City returns, this time to celebrate its 20th year. Even more than before the event is hosting a pantheon of nationally recognized...
View ArticleCelebrities from TV and film head to Planet Comicon Kansas City in two weeks
Captain Kirk, The Fonz, Chewbacca, The Flash, Starbuck, the Weasleys, two Supermans, Tank Girl, and a slate of characters from The Princess Bride are heading to Kansas City For twenty years Planet...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon Kansas City returns this weekend for 23rd year
For twenty-three years Planet Comicon Kansas City has been one of the Midwest’s biggest comic book and pop culture conventions and that was no less so in 2014 when it became the largest attended event...
View ArticlePlanet Comicon Kansas City 2023 cosplay and more
Planet Comicon Kansas City wrapped its 2023 pop culture convention yesterday, another great show this time leading into next year’s 25th year for the event. The event was well-attended each day,...
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