{"id":10919,"date":"2012-01-10T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2012-01-10T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:05:19","slug":"the-early-years-of-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/10\/the-early-years-of-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Years Of Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was emailed a link to a brief television interview with two of the founding members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Comic Con<\/a>, one of whom was a friend of mine who passed away a few days ago and the other whom I only recently met for the first time. 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