Boy, are some of you going to love this. Alan Light was the founder of what is now the Comics Buyer's Guide and he used to be all over every comic book convention with his camera. He recently came across a huge stash of photos that he took at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con, back in the days before it was called the Comic-Con International.
The picture above is of the great writer-artist of Disney ducks, Carl Barks, posing with Burne Hogarth, who was probably best known for drawing the Tarzan newspaper strip. But that's just a sample. Alan has posted a ton of these great photos…even a few with me in them. I think I'm about eleven in those shots which is odd because I was thirty years old in 1982. But don't let that concern you. Go take a look.