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Wizard Buys Big Apple Con

By: Stephen Schleicher | April 9th, 2009

Here’s something that makes a whole lot of sense; your company is letting people go left and right, you cancel and/or postpone Wizard World Texas and Wizard World Los Angeles, so you go out and purchase the Big Apple Convention. To make matters even more confusing, Gareb Shamus is moving the show to October 16 – 18, 2009, which just so happens to be the same month that the New York Comic Con had announced it is moving to. If Shamus and Wizard wanted to stir up a hornet’s nest of publicity on a slow news day, it certainly succeeded in that.

The complete press release after the jump, and don’t forget the comment section for you to do all that talk backin’ that y’all do so well.

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