Editing Comiket (section)

===Event size===
[[Image:Comicmarket62 00.JPG|thumb|220px|Crowds at Comiket 62 in August 2002]]
Comiket is the largest [[fan convention]] in the world,<ref name=QZ>{{cite web |url= https://qz.com/1332228/san-diegos-comic-con-has-nothing-on-tokyos-comic-market/ |title= Tokyo's Comiket, not Comic-Con, is the biggest fan convention in the world |last= Kopf |first= Dan |date= July 21, 2018 |work = Quartz |access-date= August 14, 2018}}</ref> growing from fewer than 10,000 attendees in 1982<ref>Mizoguchi Akiko (2003). "Male-Male Romance by and for Women in Japan: A History and the Subgenres of Yaoi Fictions". ''U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal'', '''25''': 49-75.</ref> to over half a million by 2004. Since 2007, attendee numbers have fluctuated in the region of 500,000 for Winter Comiket and 560,000 for Summer Comiket.<ref>{{cite web|title=Comic Market Nenpyō (Comic Market chronology)|url=http://www.comiket.co.jp/archives/Chronology.html|publisher=Comiket|access-date=January 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326120235/http://www.comiket.co.jp/archives/Chronology.html|archive-date=March 26, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{efn|name=c99|Attendance at Comiket 99 was capped at 55,000 people per day as a preventative health measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name="CRcomiket99"/>}} Because of the extremely high volume of attendance at Comiket, mobile phone companies set up temporary antennas, while the [[Tokyo Metro]] makes special arrangements to accommodate the large crowds. Hour-long queues to enter Comiket during peak hours are common, while some attendees queue up to five hours before the event to ensure early admission.<ref name=jpn76/> Popular circles are frequently placed near the venue's [[loading dock]]s so that their queues can extend outside.<ref name="WHATIS"/> ComiketPC recommends that first-time attendees arrive in the afternoon to avoid queues.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comiket.co.jp/info-a/TAFO/C76TAFO/C76eng.html |title=To Attendees from Overseas: Comic Market (Comiket) 76 |work=ComicMarket WebSite To Attendees from Overseas |publisher=Comiket Inc |access-date=July 5, 2010}}</ref>