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PHOTOS: Comic Con Fans Dress As Favorite Characters

From Flash Gordon to Batman, capes were in vogue at the pop culture convention in Rosemont.

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August 16, 2011

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Olivia Wolniak and El Capoccia browse last minute bargains at Comic Con on Saturday. She was dressed as Mystique and he was dressed as Night Crawler from the X-Men comic series. Andrew Sole

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Olivia Wolniak and El Capoccia browse last minute bargains at Comic Con on Saturday. She was dressed as Mystique and he was dressed as Night Crawler from the X-Men comic series.

Credit Andrew Sole

Jim Pitts from Crown Point IN takes a picture with Erin Gray, who played the part of Wilma Deering in the hit TV series Buck Rogers.

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Greeting fans at Comic Con, Peter Mayhew was a man of almost as few words as Chewbacca, his character in Star Wars

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Lou Ferrigno who played the Incredible Hulk was a nostalgic favorite at the Chicago Comic Con.

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The DeLorean that was used in the movie Back to the Future. This model, the DMC-12, was only manufactured for two years: 1981 and 82 and was discontinued before the movie came out in 1985.

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Nick Payson of Gurney. IL peruses one of the many walls of merchandise available at the convention.

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Fans of comics, sci-fi and pop culture put plenty of tights, capes and make up this weekend when they visited Comic Con, an annual pop culture happening held by Wizard World at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.

Earlier: Crowds show up for Comic Con

People dressed as Trekkies, Ninjas, X-Men characters, Anakin Skywalker and more all made the place a spectacle to behold.

Check it out in the photo gallery.

Related Topics: Comic Con, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, and Wizard World