WizardWorld.com Launches Redesign!

WizardWorld.com, a premiere online collectors site, launches redesign, new features, and WizardWorld Plus on June 6. New multi-media features and columns on Comic Books, Action Figures, Sports Cards, Fantasy Gaming. WizardWorld.com is also launching its new WizardWorld Plus online pay-for-use service for collectors. WizardWorld Plus is a brand-new exclusive area on WizardWorld.com, where users can get access to extensive price guides for Comic Books, Action Figures, Magic: The Gathering, Statues and Busts and more as well as maintain a portfolio of collectables.

WIZARDWORLD.COM LAUNCHES REDESIGN

Online collectors site launches redesign, new features, and WizardWorld Plus

TENNESSEE/OTTAWA, June 5, 2002-Visitors to WizardWorld.com, the online collectors site covering Comics, Sports Cards, Action Figures, Fantasy Gaming and more, are in for some exciting new changes.

Visitors can continue to expect daily news and exclusive stories about their favorite collecting interests. However, the redesigned areas on the site will offer additional material like:

• Multi-media interviews with key comics professionals, such as Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada.
• Movie trailers
• Brand-new columns with opinions of experts in regular columns like Beyond the Borders (Comics), In the Game (Sports Cards), Noise About Toys (Action Figures) and Its My Turn (Fantasy Gaming).
• Access to exclusive and special offers from Wizard Entertainment.

The redesign is the handiwork of WizardWorld.com Creative Director, Jon Cogan, and the WizardWorld.com online news and tech staff. Were very excited about the new look, although there are a lot more changes to come," Cogan said. Visitors are going to find it much more user friendly and dynamic, with all the cool multi-media stuff."

Weve been working very hard to cover more news in all areas of the site, and youll notice beefed-up coverage in Action Figures, Sports Cards and Fantasy Gaming as well as in Comics," said Janet Hetherington, Managing Editor of WizardWorld.com. Im also delighted with the addition of new expert columnists like Al Muir, Senior Editor of Beckett Hockey for our Sports Cards column, and Justin Mohareb for our Fantasy Gaming column. Both bring a lot of cachet to those columns."

Hetherington herself comes to WizardWorld.com after years of writing for such collectors publications as Amazing Heroes, Comic Book Collector, Combo, Wizard, Animation and acting as Editor of the annually published Toy Report. She is writing the new Noise About Toys column.

Wizardworld.com has access to 17,000 unique visitors per day, and to a contactable database of 1.8 million. Wizardworld.com also receives, on average, 3 million page views per week.

WizardWorld.com is also launching its new WizardWorld Plus online pay-for-use service for collectors today.

WizardWorld Plus is a brand-new exclusive area on WizardWorld.com, where users can get access to extensive price guides for Comic Books, Action Figures, Magic: The Gathering, Statues and Busts and more as well as maintain a portfolio of collectables.

In future, those who opt to join WizardWorld Plus will also be eligible for:
• Sports cards price guides
• Insider columns
• Special discounts at retailers
• Online chats
• More specials.

WizardWorld.com currently maintains over 650,000 portfolios, managed by over 287,000 users.

Users wishing to receive the upgraded portfolio and price guide services as part of the WizardWorld Plus package can do so for just $9.95 U.S. a year (limited-time, introductory offer). Clients can pay by card (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover). WizardWorld Plus customers who pay by IPS (online transaction service), receive an introductory price of only $8.95 per year.

Current portfolio and price guide users are still able to access accounts and information until June 13. Those who join WizardWorld Plus as members will have access to the exclusive service after that date.

The popular WizardWorld.com buy/sell/trade service will still be available to all regular WizardWorld.com users as well as WizardWorld Plus members. However, the new option of using IPS for buy/sell/trade will make transactions easier than ever.

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CONTACT:
Janet Hetherington
Managing Editor
WizardWorld.com
(613) 723-9000 ext 223
editorial@wizardworld.com