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Richard Alf, one of the co-founders of San Diego's Comic-Con, is no more with us. He was ailing from pancreatic cancer as he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in Decemebr.

Alf joined up with a band of volunteers in 1970 to start the now-annual convention celebrating comic books.

Friend and fellow Comic-Con co-founder Mike Towry says Alf fronted a few thousand dollars to pay for the convention for the first three years and gave other co-founders rides in his car.

In 1970, the first Comic-Con was relatively modest compared to the convention that now draws more than 125,000 people to San Diego every summer for a 3-day extravaganza.

Alf also founded the Comic Kingdom shop in North Park in the 1970s.

He died at the age of 59.