posted on 9/9/2013 by the Salt City Sinner Salt Lake City's first Comic Con, held from September 5 - 7, was a record-crushing success. SLCCC sold 50,000 tickets, had around 80,000 visitors, had to turn thousands away at the doors (including some wristband-holders, due to excessive amounts of people and pesky fire codes). Celebrity meatvatars included Adam West, William Shatner and Stan Lee. You could play “blast a storm trooper” or get your picture taken with probably no fewer than three hundred Batmen roaming the floor, ranging from the pudgy and depressing to the marvelous and movie-quality. Like all cons, this one was an orgy of both creativity and consumerism – a colorful peacock parade of costumes jammed shoulder-to-shoulder between long rows of booths selling art prints, posters, clothing, video games, action figures, and, of course, comic books. SLCCC will be back, I have absolutely no doubt, and that is a boon for Salt Lake's geek / weirdo economy (arg