Pomona Fairplex Comic & Toy Expo 2026

“Vintage comics, rare action figures, trading cards, model kits, and…”

The back issue you have been hunting online for two years — always either overpriced or already gone — could be sitting in a long box on a folding table in Pomona right now, and the only way to find out is to flip.

This is a marketplace, not a spectacle. Rows of dealers with comics running from the Golden Age to last month, loose and carded figures spanning three decades of childhood, model kits, vintage toys, prototype variants, and the deep-catalog items people chase for years without admitting it out loud. Artists and small publishers table alongside the dealers, so the commerce and the creator side sit in the same aisle.

It fills the climate-controlled halls at the Fairplex, which are big enough that you will not cover it all in a day. Both days open to the public, cheap at the door.

Go with the person who taught you to bag and board. Let them tell you the story again.