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Girls gone geek

The Craigslist job posting started off simply requesting a woman to work a publisher’s booth at the New York Comic Con, currently in its final day at the Javits Center. An “enthusiastic female model” was needed to dress up in a costume and hand out flyers, the ad began. Easy enough.

Then, a slight curveball. “Discussing your superpowers with fans a prerequisite.” Say what now? “Should be dress size 2 to 6-ish and not shy about wearing your typical female superhero costume,” it continued. And the kicker: “Please send pic.”

Every year, attractive ladies are hired to prowl Comic Con, the giant comic book and entertainment convention, luring potential customers with a smile and two spandex-strangled ta-tas.

Take Pei Pei Lin, for example, who’s dressed in a leotard-like green outfit and stationed outside a booth to plug a sci-fi comic called “New-Gen.” Lin, an actress, got the gig through a friend, but she says she’s not just working the Con; she has nerd credentials of her own.

“I love wearing costumes. I love superheroes,” she says. “I read a lot of Japanese comic books and I watch a lot of the anime movies and play a lot of Halo.”

Dressing up is fun and all — and could be quite fruitful, paying as much as $25 an hour — but it comes with one potential headache: You get hit on by every dude wearing a Green Lantern T-shirt in the tri-state area.

“I do get hit on,” says Lauren Mizenko, a New York ballet dancer who’s currently dressed as 1980s cartoon character Jem to promote a DVD release. “They just ask if they can take me home.” (So far, she’s declined.)

“Oh, yeah. I get hit on,” adds Yaya Han, a popular model who makes and models her own skimpy costumes based on video game and superhero characters. “Guys will say, ‘Nice boots,’ when they mean nice boobs. I hear a lot of muttering when I walk past, but you know, you get used to it after a while. I’m a grown-up. I understand that when I’m dressed up with my cleavage out it’s going to warrant attention. But there is a line and if I get uncomfortable with it, like someone touching me or getting vulgar, that’s when I have to call in the calvary.”

(Like the Power Rangers or something?)

“I get hit on every five minutes,” confirms Yuffie Bunny, a 26-year-old model promoting costume company Head Kandi. “I feel like the new pick-up line at conventions is, ‘Can I get a photo of you?’ I’ve been doing these conventions since 2003, and I get it a lot. I’ll just nod and smile and say, ‘Thank you,’ then pose for the picture.”

But take heart, basement dwellers. If your game (or your Captain America costume) is just right, you could have a shot with these ladies.

“Would I date someone I met here?” Lin asks. Long pause. “It would really have to depend on how the conversation goes and if the chemistry is right. It’s a case-by-case basis.”

“I’ve seen some good-looking people,” Mizenko says. “So maybe.”

Using attractive women to sell things is nothing new. Just visit an auto show or a Hooters outlet. But here, the strategy seems especially calculated, because it leans on the old stereotype that comic fans are mouth-breathing losers whose only contact with attractive females is at a convention like this.

“I was warned about that [stereotype],” Mizenko says. “Actually, everyone is really nice. No one has been mean.” (Not even that guy in the Doctor Doom costume?)

“I’m not sure if I’ve been to enough Comic Cons to say, but I don’t think that’s true,” Lin says. “Even if you like comic books and play video games, it doesn’t mean you’re socially inept.”

No, but do remember the etiquette: Be polite. Always ask permission to take a photo. And summon all of your own personal superpowers and try not to stare at their boobs.

reed.tucker@nypost.com