Its day one here in San Diego for the 40th annual San Diego Comic-Con. There’s many different things that bring people to the Con and one of them is the opportunity, nay the almost near necessity, of showing up dressed as your favorite character from movies, manga, anime, comics, novels or TV.

Naturally, as we’re here in San Diego to cover all the festivities and bring them to you, what better way to highlight the fun then by showing you some of the costumes, both good and not-so-good, we encountered today on the floor, in the hallways and out in front of the convention center.

So, without further to do, here’s a good selection of costumed fans from today right after the jump. Be sure to check back right here at The Flickcast for all your Comic-Con 2009 coverage.

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One of the great things about Comic-Con in San Diego is that fans like to dress up as their favorite characters from comics, movies and TV. But really, “like” doesn’t exactly cover it. They really, really, really like to dress up and its one of the things that makes Comic-Con attendees special: they take their fandom seriously.

What better way, then, to honor these hard core fanboys and girls than with a contest where they can win all sorts of cool prizes? Fortunately, that’s just what the folks at Marvel are doing next week in San Diego. Sure, there’s the “official” costume extravaganza at Comic-Con, but that one doesn’t feature a grand prize personally autographed by Stan Lee.

Here’s all the info from Marvel’s own virtual lips:

Join In The Marvel Costume Contest At Comic-Con International

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