WonderCon
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- Convention.name
- WonderCon
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- Convention.caption
- The WonderCon 2010 main exhibit hall in the Moscone Center in San Francisco
- Convention.status
- Active
- Convention.genre
- Multi-genre
- Convention.venue
- 1987–2002: Oakland Convention Center2003–2011: Moscone Center2012–2015 Anaheim Convention Center2016: Los Angeles Convention Center2017–present: Anaheim Convention Center
- Convention.location
- California
- Convention.country
- United States
- Convention.first
- (as Wonderful World of Comics Convention)
- Convention.organizer
- Comic-Con International
- Convention.filing
- Nonprofit
- Convention.attendance
- 60,000 (2016)
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WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then—under the name WonderCon Anaheim—in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–present), and WonderCon Los Angeles in 2016. The convention returned to the Anaheim Convention Center in 2017 after a one-year stint in Los Angeles due to construction at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The convention was conceived by retailer John Barrett (a founder of the retail chain Comics and Comix) and originally held in the Oakland Convention Center. In 2003, it moved to San Francisco's Moscone Center. The show's original name was the Wonderful World of Comics Convention.