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Revision as of 12:15, 27 October 2024

The SuperMancon was the 1954 Eastercon, held June 5–6, 1954 (Whitsun weekend), at the Grosvenor Hotel in Manchester, UK. The guest of honour was John Russell Fearn. It was sponsored by the Nor'west Science Fantasy Club.

The souvenir book uses the form 'SuperMancon' so this should probably be canonical but subsequently people have tended to use the form 'Supermancon'. It was the fifth convention in the Eastercon sequence, the first outside of London and the last to be held at Whitsun. It was also the second in the (loose) Mancon sequence. It had nothing to do with Superman

Preparations[edit]

Dave Cohen and Eric Bentcliffe had originally made a bid for a Manchester convention to be called Supermancon at the 1952 convention. On that occasion they were beaten by a London bid that became Coroncon.

Venue[edit]

The Grosvenor Hotel occupied the corner of Deansgate and Victoria Bridge Street. The site now seems to be empty.

Attendees[edit]

There are 133[1] members of the 'Supermancon Society' listed in the combozine. Some of these didn't attend and in a few cases never had any intention of doing so.

In the table below names marked (A) are known attendees, names marked (AN) are known attendees who are not on the membership list, and names marked (N) are members who are known to have not been present. The remainder may have attended. In many cases that's the limit of our knowledge about them and where this is the case there won't be a page for them until and unless we find out some more. Names to which this applies are in italics. Additionally names marked * are family members of attendees who likely weren't fans per se.

This list is a work in progress. Names below are being checked to see if they're here under variants.

  1. B. Almond
  2. Jim McArthur
  3. Norm Ashfield
  4. Mal Ashworth (A)
  5. Brian V. Avis
  6. Joe Ayres
  7. Peter Baillie (A)
  8. Alan Barclay (AN)
  9. Ron Bennett (A)
  10. Eric Bentcliffe (AN)
  11. Phil Best
  12. Sid Birchby
  13. Irene Boothroyd
  14. Syd Bounds (A)
  15. Robert Brandon
  16. John Brunner (A)
  17. Daphne Buckmaster (AN)
  18. Ron Buckmaster (AN)
  19. A. E. Bullock
  20. Ken Bulmer (A)
  21. Pam Bulmer (AN)
  22. Brian Burgess (AN)
  23. Phil J. Cakebread
  24. James Cameron
  25. Peter Campbell (A)
  26. John Carnell (A)
  27. Joan Carr (N)[2]
  28. George Charters (A)
  29. Vin¢ Clarke (A)
  30. Dave Cohen (AN)
  31. Dave Cohen (Australia)[3]
  32. L. J. Conway
  33. A. Cook
  34. Basil P. Coukis
  35. Denny Cowen
  36. E. Cox
  37. S. R. Dalton (A)
  38. Jack Darlington (A)
  39. Ron Deacon (A)
  40. Pat Doolan (AN)
  41. Charles Duncombe
  42. Mrs Duncombe *
  43. D. Egan
  44. Paul Enever (AN)
  45. Cyril Evans
  46. Frances Evans (A)
  47. Rory Faulkner
  48. John Russell Fearn (AN)
  49. Reg Fieldhouse
  50. Margaret Finch (A)
  51. Cyril Fleisher (AN)
  52. Pete Fox
  53. A. Francis
  54. Dave Gardner (A)
  55. George Gibson
  56. Walter Gillings (A)
  57. Frances Glynn (AN)
  58. Joy Goodwin (A)
  59. Irene Gore (A)
  60. John Gregor
  61. John Gunn (A)
  62. John B. Hall
  63. Peter Hamilton (A)
  64. Paul Hammett (AN)
  65. Harry Hanlon (AN)
  66. Ernest Harmer
  67. C. A. Harper
  68. Chuck Harris (A)
  69. Bill Harrison (AN)
  70. Jerry Heydemann
  71. Lynn Hickman
  72. Arthur F. Hillman
  73. Mrs G. M. Hills
  74. Alf Hind (A)
  75. E. R. James (A)
  76. Jan Jansen
  77. Terry Jeeves (A)
  78. Leslie J. Johnson (AN)
  79. K. Johnstone
  80. Herbert Jones
  81. M. Kelly
  82. Colin Lane
  83. Al Lee
  84. Gene Lees (AN)
  85. Brian Lewis (A)
  86. Geoff Lewis (A)
  87. Ethel Lindsay (A)
  88. Nigel Lindsay
  89. Thomas L. MacDonald
  90. Connie Mackenzie (AN)
  91. Stuart Mackenzie (A)
  92. Shirley Marriott (A)
  93. Donald McCormick
  94. Ken McIntyre (A)
  95. Archie Mercer[4]
  96. Frank Milnes (A)
  97. Jim Mooney
  98. Eric Needham (A)
  99. Dave Newman (A)
  100. Stan Nuttall (AN)
  101. Cathy Overton (AN)
  102. Bill Panter
  103. Colin Parsons
  104. Alistair Paterson (A)
  105. J. N. Phillips
  106. Derek Pickles
  107. Marjorie Pickles
  108. Ken Potter (A)
  109. Robert Presslie
  110. Bill Price
  111. Fred Price
  112. Jim Ratigan (AN)
  113. Peter Reaney (AN)
  114. George Richards
  115. Fred Robinson (A)
  116. John Roles (A)
  117. J. Michael Rosenblum (A)
  118. D. A Rozier
  119. Sandy Sanderson (A)
  120. Bob Shaw (A)
  121. Sadie Shaw
  122. G. A. Shiel
  123. Ina Shorrock (A)
  124. Norman Shorrock (A)
  125. Dag Siggerud
  126. Frank Simpson (A)
  127. Ken Slater
  128. Jack Smillie (A)
  129. Fred Smith (A)
  130. K. E. Smith
  131. Les Swinburne
  132. G. B. Tait
  133. Arthur H. Tavinder
  134. Pete Taylor (A)
  135. Stan Thomas[5] (A)
  136. Tony Thorne (A)
  137. A. Tomlinson
  138. Ted Tubb (AN)
  139. Harry Turner (A)
  140. Brian Varley (AN)
  141. M. Wallace
  142. Norman Wansborough (A)
  143. Norman Weedall (AN)
  144. Betty White (AN)
  145. E. White[6]
  146. James White (A)
  147. Tom White (A)
  148. S. B. Whitehead
  149. A. Williams
  150. Taffy Williams
  151. Madeleine Willis (A)
  152. Walter A. Willis (A)
  153. Jack Wilson
  154. R. Wingfield
  155. Geoff Wingrove
  156. John A. Wiseman
  157. R. Yates
  158. Cathie Youden[7] (A)

It is worth noting that Bert Campbell didn't attend. He tried to go but his motorbike broke down on the way and he never arrived.

The convention[edit]

Publications[edit]

The SuperMancon Combozine was produced for the convention. It includes special issues of Space Times, Alpha, Medway Journal, BEM, Orbit, Zenith, Brennschluss and Space Diversions as well as trail for the forthcoming Femizine and what purported to be an extract from the twentieth issue of Nirvana, a fanzine where subscriptions were by invitation only.

Future conventions[edit]

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  1. ↑ Actually 135 but two appear to be duplicates.
  2. ↑ ... because she didn't exist.
  3. ↑ Oddly, the Dave Cohen on the membership list is an Australian and not the Dave Cohen who chaired the convention and who is not himself on the membership list.
  4. ↑ The membership list also includes A. Mercer who is presumably a duplicate.
  5. ↑ Listed twice on the membership list as S. Thomas.
  6. ↑ The assumption is that this isn't Betty White as while Betty may be a diminutive for Elizabeth this person lived in Bimringham while the Whites lived in Bradford.
  7. ↑ Her name is given as 'Yonden' in the souvenir book.
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