Steel City Con - April 24, 25 & 26th

[thanos_oftitan]

I'll be there selling this year. Anyone going???

 

SteelCityCon Web site....

[Stonewall84-migration]

I am going to be there helping out my friend who is the owner of apocalypse comics of myrtle beach, SC. I've never been to the steel city before so im looking forward to it. This is also the first time my friend has set up at the show. He usually attends the Pittsburgh Comic Con and usually does pretty well. What are you going to be selling this year? Comics and toys i suppose?

[thanos_oftitan]

Mostly comics. Hoping for a good turnout.

[Stonewall84-migration]

Well will be taking comics as well but my friend almost completely sold out of his toys from megacon so he is getting a rather large shipment next week so we should have a large amount of toys there as well.

[szelim]

Is the layout of the booths going to be similar to the previous one?

 

[thanos_oftitan]

I would think so. I do remember some of the booths were in what seemed like no-mans land .

 

 

[thanos_oftitan]

 

Less than two weeks to go......

[Stonewall84-migration]

I know I cant wait! I hope it turns out to be a good show!!!!

[carcrawfordfan]

Does this show usually have a lot of dealers?? Wondering about making the 2 hour drive.

[szelim]

Comics wise, usually not so much in terms of dealers, more oriented towards toys and other collectibles. But since Pittsburgh Comicon got pushed back to the fall, perhaps there might be more dealers. I don't think hotflips is making it to this one though.

[szelim]

[HOTFLIPS]

Can we get a report about the show, Please

[carcrawfordfan]

I made the trek from Cleveland/Akron for Friday. The show had about 20-25 comic dealers and 50 or more toy dealers. I bought a lot of stuff from $1 bins and met a lot of nice people. The PISA was pretty big and HOT!!! They didn't turn the heat on until later in the day and the ceiling was leaking water down on people. I don't think the dealers really appreciated that. I did good, but I don't think the dealers were too happy with the Friday turnout. The admission was a pretty bad deal at $10. This was not much bigger than local shows for $3. It was just held in a bigger place and plenty of autograph guests were scheduled. I would not personally pay anything extra for those aspects. That is my show report 2 cents.

[thanos_oftitan]

We did very well on Friday dealing mostly $1.00 books. I did sell a few from the board (GI Joe, X-men & Deadpool).

 

Saturday was dead

 

Sunday we knocked the books down to 50c and were able to move about 3 long boxes. I also sold a few of my board books late to a few other dealers which helped make my day. (thumbs u

 

As far as the location, it will be moving back to Monroeville in December to the new Expomart.

 

 

 

[carcrawfordfan]

where were you set up at??

[HOTFLIPS]

How was the line for the celebrities

[carcrawfordfan]

I am not sure if any of them were scheduled until Sat or Sunday. It probably didn't help that it was 85 and sunny out.

[HOTFLIPS]

I heard the next one is in December, back in Monroeville, what date is that? Was there an announcement at the show?

[Stonewall84-migration]

Well, I'm recovering from the 12 hour drive back to Myrtle Beach from the Steel City Con. We got lucky seeing as how the water always dripped on the opposite side of our comic boxes. Overall, our booth did pretty well for a show of its size and we met a lot of really nice people. BTW our booth was set up at G and H 1,2,3......Apocalypse Comics.

[szelim]

Sorry to hear the turnout wasn't that great, but it was a very nice weekend outdoors and the PISL was a bit out of the way for many people.

 

I see the website has been updated to identify the Monroeville Convention Center as the venue the December show.