Excitement builds ahead of Dragon Con 2022

Blast from Dragon Con past: Batman and the Riddler — aka Ray Deforest and Jim McGinnis — march down Peachtree Street during the 2006 Dragon Con Parade through downtown Atlanta.

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Dragon Con is the largest multimedia, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction & fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music and film in the country. It’s been held in Atlanta since 1987.

The convention returns to full capacity this year after canceling in 2020 because of COVID-19 and holding a scaled-back version in 2021.

William Shatner and Walter Koenig from the original “Star Trek” are on the guest list — along with more than 400 actors, authors and designers from the sci-fi and fantasy worlds.