Once again, we have reports of rampant bootlegging at a major comic convention. Bleeding Cool was inundated with stories about alleged bootleggers at Wizard World Chicago — including the Carolina Ghostbusters, Fatal Planet, and Ginger Zap. It’s a perennial problem that poses a serious problem for conventioneers. After all, if you walk away from a convention only to find out that you were duped into buying a bootleg, are you going to be able to trust any future purchases at that convention?

PVP business manager, Cory Casoni, shared some thoughts on Twitter over the weekend.

Storified my rant on Illegal Print/Shirt Sales & How To Stop Them for easier reading 🙂 https://t.co/hAgPGfYLcC

— Cory Casoni (@CoryCasoni) August 19, 2016

TL/DR: It’s up to the consumer.

But how does the garden-variety consumer know a bootlegger from the Real Deal?

To find the answer, let’s look to history…

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