Joe Bowman

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Joe Bowman was a fan and fan artist active from the early 1950s. He was a member of the Fantasy Art Society and contributed to its calendar. His artwork also appeared in Peon and Space Times and he contributed articles, stories or poems to Space Times, Peri and Void.

He's then not in evidence until 1967 which does mean it's possible that the following is a namesake rather than the same person. Vector #44 (May 1967) reported that Joe Bowman was the new custodian of the BSFA magazine library from an address in Ross-shire in the north of Scotland. In an article in Spi #2 (1975), Graham Poole described him as 'long incommunicado' and said his 'house had burnt down, along with the complete BSFA magazine library'.

In Operation Fantast #12 (Spring 1952), Ken Slater said that Bowman was 'late of the Submarine Service (he says that in a submarine one can easily imagine that it is bound for the Moon)'.

Note: there was also a fifties Manchester fan called Jack Bowman who was a member of the Nor'west Science Fantasy Club. It's unknown if they were related or even the same person. Neither is listed in Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955.

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