Comic-Con By the numbers

by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 7/18/2005

84,000: Number of attendees in 2004

63,000: Number of attendees in 2003

$65: Cost of a four-day pass

1,000: Number of exhibitors in 2004

900: Number of exhibitors in 2003

7,900: Number of booths in 2004

460,000: Square footage occuppied by exhibitors

270,000: Square footage occuppied by exhibitors at BEA in 2005

1,200: Press registration in 2004

6,500: Number of seats in the convention center theatre

1,100: Weight, measured in tons, of auxiliary air conditioner used for Comic-Con