VIP SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER & AWARD CEREMONY
RIVERRUN RESTAURANT & SOCIAL LOUNGE @ HOTEL INDIGO - HARRISBURG, PA​
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2024 (7 PM - 10 PM)
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Legendary TV and Movie Icons to Honor World’s Mightiest Mortal with Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Ceremony to be Held in Conjunction with 50th Anniversary Celebration of TV Series Shazam!

American actor, theatre director and film producer Jackson Leonard Bostwick Jr., best known for portraying the world’s mightiest mortal ‘Captain Marvel’ on the 1970’s television series Shazam!, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at an Award Ceremony featuring fellow TV and movie actors.

The Award Ceremony will be held in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary celebration of the epic TV show Shazam!, which premiered 50 years ago on Saturday, September 7, 1974 on CBS.

Bostwick was born on October 23, 1943 at the Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, whose father Jackson Bostwick Sr. was an Army captain on post when the barracks was the Medical Field Service School during World War II.

​Bostwick will be returning to his birthplace in October, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Shazam! TV series and accept the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Some of the legendary stars who will be appearing during this celebration include former American television actor David Alexander Newell (best known for portraying Mr. McFeely, the delivery man on the children's TV series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood), American actress and singer Rebecca Holden (best known for portraying April Curtis, the chief technician for KITT on the TV series Knight Rider), and former American stand-up comedian, model and actor Mark Taylor (best known for playing DC Comics live action superhero Plastic Man on the TV series The Plastic Man Comedy Show).

The celebration will also feature American author Rick Goldschmidt, the official biographer and historian at Rankin/Bass Productions, an American production company known for its seasonal television specials, usually done in stop motion animation called Animagic. Goldschmidt will be honoring longtime friend Jackson Bostwick, in addition to celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and the 50th Anniversary of The Year Without a Santa Claus and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Goldschmidt will be alongside American actress Linda Miller, best known for her starring role as Lt. Susan Watson in King Kong Escapes, a 1967 Japanese-American co-production film between Toho and Rankin/Bass.

The main event, the 50th Anniversary celebration of the TV series Shazam! (billed as Carlisle Comic Con), will be held on Friday, October 18 (from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m) and Saturday, October 19 (from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) at the Carlisle Expo Center, a 30,000 square-foot exhibition hall located in downtown Carlisle, adjacent to the Carlisle Fairgrounds, the home of Carlisle Events and the location for the largest collector car and truck events in the country.

During this time, Carlisle Comic Con will be the host of over 100 exhibitors, including mainstream and independent artists, writers, creators and actors, along with numerous vendors exhibiting an array of comics, toys, art, books, hand-crafted items and pop culture-related collectibles.

Bostwick, Holden, Newell, Taylor, Goldschmidt and Miller will be some of the notable guests appearing both days of the Comic Con to sign autographs and interact with fans.

“I look forward to going out and meeting the people,” Bostwick said. “I am excited by the prospect of sharing stories with fans,” he added.

The Award Ceremony will be held Saturday evening at 7 p.m. at the Riverrun Restaurant and Social Lounge, located inside the Hotel Indigo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented by Troy R. Kinunen, who curates and maintains a museum at MEARS Online Auctions, based in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Admission tickets are currently available for both the Comic Con and the Award Ceremony. Admission into the Award Ceremony will require a VIP ticket, which includes dinner and a photo-opportunity.

Dinner will include a choice of Italian grilled chicken or Mediterranean pasta, along with a non-alcoholic beverage and 2 sides (broccoli, wild rice, waffle fries, onion rings, side salad).  

If you require overnight hotel accommodations, the Hotel Indigo has blocked numerous rooms for us at the promotional rate of only $99 per room night (normally $200 per night)! This is a HUGE savings for such an extraordinary place!
Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly at 717-558-7676 (must mention the room block code: CCC). You can also book your room online by clicking on the following promotional link:  Hotel Harrisburg/Hershey - Carlisle Comic Con Indigo

The reservation CUT-OFF-DATE for this discounted group rate of $99 per room night is 5:00 p.m. on 9/24/2024.
So BOOK your HOTEL stay TODAY, before it's too late!

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1.  American comics artist Ron Frenz (best known for his 1980s work on “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Spider-Girl” by Marvel Comics)

2.  American actor Byron Cherry (best known for portraying Coy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard TV series)

3.  American actor and businessman Christopher Atkins (best know for starring in The Blue Lagoon, The Pirate Movie, and Dallas)

4.  Former American actor Carl Craig (best known for portraying Jim Morgan in the 1968 Japanese kaiju film ‘Gamera vs. Viras’ aka 'Destroy All Planets')

5.  Academy Award-winning stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director Scott Leva (known to many Spider-Man fans as the actor on the first photographic cover of a Spider-Man comic book, appearing as Peter Parker, half-way in costume, on The Amazing Spider-Man, #262; cover date March 1985)

​6.  American puppeteer, director and producer Kevin Clash (best known for puppeteering Elmo on Sesame Street from 1985 to 2012)