Here’s the fifth batch of scans from Shel Dorf’s negatives from the 1974 San Diego Comic-Con, which was held at the El Cortez Hotel with Bill Lund as Chairman. (I received the negatives from Shel’s friend and cartooning partner Charlie Roberts. There are over two hundred pictures so I’m going to post them periodically in batches. (You can see the first four batches here, here, here, and here.)
Guests, fans, and committee members pictured include Forry Ackerman, Kirk Alyn, Milt Caniff, Frank Capra, Bob Clampett, Bill Melendez, and Charles Schulz.
Where I was uncertain of a name, I just put down a question mark. If you would like to help identify these people in the pictures, so that the question marks can be replaced with names, please leave a comment or send me a message by clicking on the “CONTACT” tab at the top. I’ve numbered the pictures M116-M150 so you can easily specify which picture(s) you can identify people in.
Update 02/01/11: Thanks to Bill Lund, who was chairman of Comic-Con 1974, for making the following identifications: “In photos M143 and M144, Bob Clampett’s wife, Sody, is on his right. And that looks like Ed Nizyborski in the back behind Sody. In photo M145, between Kirk Alyn and Forry, is Wendayne Ackerman, Forry’s wife. The photos of Frank Capra were taken during a press conference at, I believe, THE SAN DIEGO UNION.”
Update 01/31/11: Thanks to Greg Koudoulian for making the following identifications: Charles Schulz in M141, Malcolm Schwartz in M123 (far right), Bruce Hamilton in M150 (far left corner), and Bob Foster in M133.
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