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Wizard adds show in Nashville to line-up

Media Release -- CEO of New York based Wizard Entertainment, Gareb Shamus, announces his latest convention acquisition. Nashville's Comic & Horror Festival is now Nashville Comic Con Wizard World Convention. Read more
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New England Comic Con tickets on sale now

Media Release -- Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York based Wizard Entertainment, confirms today the dates and venue for the recently purchased New England Comic Con. "October is a great time to be in Boston," said Shamus. "The Hynes Convention Center is a premiere space and a hometown favorite for shows. I'm excited to bring the New England Comic Con fans this upgraded con experience." Read more
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Wizard drops its comics price guide (and the pages it occupied …

Users of the Wizard Universe Message Board are reporting that Wizard, the flagship magazine of Gareb Shamus's publishing, retail, and conventions empire, has ceased publication of its long-running price guide for collectible comics with ...
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The week in Con Wars

Well, it’s been a busy week in the ongoing (choose one): a) war between Reed Exhibitions and Wizard/Gareb Shamus b) “flaming Viking Death Ship” for Wizard/Gareb Shamus and some kind of roundup post seemed warranted. While we’ve been on semi-vacation, Sean T. Collins and Rich Johnston did the heavy lifting of finding posts and messages now deleted. But a few lagniappes, as it were, remain to, perhaps, garnish the story. If you’re sick of all this already, then pass by, unmolested.
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The week in Con Wars

Well, it’s been a busy week in the ongoing (choose one): a) war between Reed Exhibitions and Wizard/Gareb Shamus b) “flaming Viking Death Ship” for Wizard/Gareb Shamus and some kind of roundup post seemed warranted. While we’ve been on semi-vacation, Sean T. Collins and Rich Johnston did the heavy lifting of finding posts and messages now deleted.
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Is Brian Michael Bendis a casualty of the Con War?

"Last minute cancellations" at last weekend's Big Apple Comic Con (via The Beat) With the initial salvos -- head-to-head scheduling , employee ejections -- out of the way, the battle between Reed Exhibitions and Wizard Entertainment's Gareb Shamus that began in earnest this past weekend may have produced its first major fallout. Following Shamus's scheduling of next year's Big Apple Comic Con directly against Reed's New York Comic Con, previously announced Anaheim Comic Con guests of
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World War Con: Big Apple 2010 scheduled for same weekend as NYCC 2010

Next year's dates announced in this weekend's Big Apple Comic Con program Many things can be and have been said about Gareb Shamus, founder and CEO of Wizard Entertainment , but "he lacks chutzpah" isn't one of them: As reported by Comic Book Resources , Shamus has pitted his recently purchased Big Apple Comic Con head-to-head against Reed Exhibitions' New York Comic Con. Both shows will take place in Manhattan on Oct. 8-10, 2010, with Big Apple starting a day earlier on Oct. 7. Shamus is
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