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Denver Pop Culture Con (DPCC) (previously Denver Comic Con) is a 3-day speculative fiction fan convention held annually in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. The inaugural convention was held June 15–17, 2012, and was created as a program for the non-profit educational organization Comic Book Classroom. The latest event is May 31 – June 2, 2019, at the Colorado Convention Center; tickets were made available in fall 2018.

With its association to Pop Culture Classroom, Denver Pop Culture Con embraces a host of popular arts including comic books, tabletop and video games, anime, manga, cosplay, horror and science fiction, webcomics, movies, television and literature.

Comic Book Classroom was founded in 2010, a Colorado charitable organization focused on enhancing and improving student's learning experience through the use of comic book media by Charlie LaGreca, Frank Romero, David Vinson, and Kevin Vinson. Between 2010 and 2012, the original founders were joined by educators Illya Kowalchuk and Christina Angel, and event organizers Michael Newman and Bruce Macintosh, who became an integral part of organizational development as the foundations of both Comic Book Classroom and Denver Comic Con educational programs were developed simultaneously.