Tickets to meet comic book godfather Stan Lee at this year’s Denver Comic Con sold out faster than you can say “Spider-Man.”

Within two minutes Wednesday afternoon, the 300 tickets, priced between $175 to $275, were gone, said Charlie La Greca, co-director of Denver Comic Con and co-founder of the non-profit Comic Book Classroom.

“I honestly didn’t realize they would go so fast,” La Greca told The Denver Post. “I thought it might take four to five hours.”

The website for the tickets showed 20,000 people attempting to make a purchase, La Greca said.

“It tells us we need to strap on our Superman boots and be ready to go,” he said.

Lee,the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, will be the guest of honor for the second annual con in downtown Denver.

Tickets to meet with Lee include pictures and autographs.

This year’s con will have many other guests, including Star Trek’s George Takei, the Big Bang Theory’s Wil Wheaton and Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in “Star Wars.”

“There is definitely an energy starting to percolate as we are getting closer,” La Greca said.

The inaugural Denver Comic Con had the second-largest comic-con opening ever.

Recently, the con’s website crashed due to the 1.2 million hits within 18 days, compared to the 3 million total hits last year, La Greca said.

Denver Comic Con will be May 31-June 2 at the Colorado Convention Center.

Ryan Parker: 303-954-2409, rparker@denverpost.com or twitter.com/ryanparkerdp