Here's the story of San Diego Comic-Con International in pictures, beginning with Preview Night and the first full day Thursday.  See also Part 1.

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On display at the Heritage booth, a Charles Schulz Peanuts original featuring Alfred E. Neuman, signed for Al Feldstein "with every best wish."  Pre-auction estimate for the piece, which goes on sale next month, $20,000.

And, for the same auction, the Barry Smith cover art for Conan the Barbarian #9, estimated to bring $70,000.












Cosplay was limited on Thursday, but Pyramid Head from Silent Hill was stalking the halls.













Marketing in the Hilton Bayfront elevators, here for True Blood, a perennially heavy marketer at Comic-Con (about to end, see "'True Blood' Winding Up Next Year").






And here for The Leftovers, another HBO series.













Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters were signing their graphic novel The Leaning Girl, for which the translation was Kick’ed by Alaxis Press. It will finally hit trade this fall.










John Jackson Miller with his new novel, Star Wars:  A New Dawn, due out September 2nd.












Baymax from Big Hero 6 stands guard.














Across from the Convention Center, a single shot catches billboards promoting Once Upon a Time and Resurrection, and a mobile one promoting Leftovers.





The endless flow of tinted-window SUVs ferrying celebrities to and from their panels passed behind this group of cosplayers outside the Convention Center.








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