My first "big" con was Wizard World Philadelphia in 2012 with my 2 best friends (who I still go to big cons and comic shops with). I remember contemplating about us finally going to a big con as we had done a bunch of smaller conventions in the previous years. It was a bit of a far drive for us, as I'm in northern NJ, but what sold us was that Stan Lee was going to be there so we bought the STAN LEE VIP experience. Which was an autograph on any item, a picture with him, and a Q&A session. I believe we paid $250 for the package, which was a steal from seeing his later con appearances. But yeah, still have the ticket somewhere around here. Great experience overall.