This was on the Jeopardy! board last night. I'm glad they put the "co" in "co-founded" and I'm wondering why they picked Mike to single out. Guess they thought the "15-year-old" angle made it more interesting.
Right now, if you type "Who founded Comic-Con?" into Google, what you get back is: "The convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Ron Graf, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear." They could probably have found many different lists of names if they'd looked…because the correct answer is indeed a list of names.
I wouldn't even try to make a definitive one and since Jeopardy! decided to mention just one person, I'm glad they picked Mike. Too many times in the past, the one name that got mentioned was Shel Dorf's and that's just unfair to quite a few other people who were responsible. (I was about to write, "Mike probably did a lot more than Shel" but that's true of several other folks as well.)
Mike Towry certainly deserves recognition and thanks for what he did to launch that "pop culture phenomenon." And he'd be the first guy to start naming the other ones.