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9 DECEMBER 2025 · THE ATTEMPT, AT ITS DOCUMENTED SIZE
The attempt: On 9 December 2025, the Morris Performing Arts Center — the room Ella Morris sold to the city for one dollar, two entries back in this drawer — hosted an attempt on a world record of a new kind. Scholastic staged a free one-night event around Dav Pilkey's Dog Man, at which attendees in costume attempted the Guinness World Records title for the largest gathering of people dressed as a comic book or graphic novel character; the standing mark, per the organizer's announcement, was 1,784 participants, set at a Salt Lake comic convention in 2015. The attempt is documented whole in the organizer's own announcement of 28 October 2025 and the publishing trade press. Whether the South Bend count took the title does not stand in the record reached for this history, and the entry is printed at exactly that size: a documented attempt, in the city's rescued palace, against a named mark — its verdict a named gap, not a guess.
Sources:
- Scholastic, announcement of 28 October 2025, "Dav Pilkey's Dog Man Goes for a Guinness World Records Title at Special Free Event for Fans" (the Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend; Tuesday, 9 December; the title attempted; the standing mark of 1,784 from 2015); Publishers Weekly, "Scholastic Hoping for a World Record-Setting Finale to Its Year of Dog Man" (the event and the attempt, in advance).