Located at “Mo-Hagen Sun”
Recap of my day coming soon.
Did anyone else attend (or is planning to attend) this year?
Dirty D’s Terrificon 2026 Recap
For those of you who like going to comic book vendor heavy conventions, but aren’t looking for exclusive comics then Terrificon might be something to consider attending.
Some other perks are its close to a major highway, easy to get in and out (parking is free) and being in a casino there are plenty of places to take a break, eat, gamble (that’s your thing), or even catch a concert. Billy Idol is playing tomorrow night, for example.
Personally I would stay off site and find a cheaper option…but many stay at the casino hotel.
Anyway. I had only bought a ticket for Friday. Despite some interesting comic creators and actors, I was only interested in digging through back issue bins. And at $45/day it’s kind of a steep price to pay. I also had a limited amount of time as I was on kid duty today, picking up and dropping off…but fortunately most of that was before the doors opened.
Because of my limited time and one day to do it all, I didn’t take too many photos. but it’s a decent size layout and I would say 1/2 the vendors sell comics, if not more.
I’ll post my findings separately, but I found most vendors to have reasonable prices for the “cheap” books. Most were very nice to talk to…some maybe too much as I was on a time crunch and they enjoyed talking my ear off. I didn’t look much at wall books or in “individually priced” bins. I was mainly looking for books on the hunt list and a few inexpensive PC books for the right price.
I will say not much buzz about ghost rider or any other movie project. It is interesting to hear what other people are looking for. One guy wanted Indiana Jones comics (which I came across a nice run of unbagged in a box shortly after…just missing #1 and maybe issues past 30). Didn’t realize that issue 34 was such a pricey book (last issue). Another person was looking for Transformers trades.
But what was apparent was people asking about absolute Batman. A lot of people looking for those books. And there were a lot to go around. If you were looking for a first print of an issue, you could find it there in boxes priced at or slightly below market.
Another observation was that Nightwing, Mora and beefcake is drying up. Secret is out. It’s pretty apparent people are on the hunt for these. Going through books with the hunt list out, it was clear people know which books to grab of these. For example, I would find runs of Nightwing, only to see that the books missing were in the hunt list. Or, and what was more telling” they had a book but it was priced at market value, showing they were paying attention. I found a lot of Red Hood this time around…but priced at or slightly below eBay prices.
But I did manage to do some decent damage with the few hours I was there. It was 1-8pm, but I was there for about 5 of that. I’ll show off my findings in a separate post.