Thousands Enjoy Harborough’s First Ever Comic Con Event
Written by HFM News on 18th September 2023
Around 3,000 people enjoyed Market Harborough’s first ever Comic Con event yesterday.
They got to meet some big names and characters from TV and film, as the town’s Market Hall hosted the big event.
Michael Willson who was ‘Cobra’ in the hit 90s TV show Gladiators, actor Christopher Ryan, best known for playing Mike in The Young Ones, CBBC legend Hacker T Dog and puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew, along with his character Zippy from Rainbow were among those to make an appearance.
Doctor Who actor David Gooderson, who played creator of the Daleks, Davros, back in 1979 was also there, together with C Andrew Nelson, who spent the most time in the Vader costume in the Star Wars Movies and special guests Sooty and Sweep.
Daniel and Carlos Pesina also made their first ever European appearance at the event, with the brothers best known for being the actors portraying key characters in the original Mortal Kombat computer games.
The event was held in support of Maggie’s Cancer Care and organisers are set to announce later this week how much was raised.
Peter Williams runs the Vinyl Culture store at the market and helped organise the free-to-enter event with the team from Snot Monkey:
