Misfits

(Did you mean the Mercian Science Fiction Triangle (MiSFiTs) or the Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy (MISFITS)?)

The Misfits, so dubbed by George H. Young, were a Michigan-wide club, also known as the Michigan Science Fantasy Society or Michigan Science Fiction Society (MSFS, either way) and centered in Detroit. The club was the major SF club there during the 1940s and ’50s. Picking a date for the end of MSFS is difficult, as the group slowly mutated from active fanac to a bowling league and overlapped with the Detroit Science Fiction League that formed after the Blowup, but it apparently had a renaissance after the Korean War.

In an ad in the Solacon PR 2 supporting its Detroit in '59 Worldcon bid, the members listed were Wm. c. Rickhardt, Frank Paccassi, Patty Paccassi, Ben Singer, Eleanore Singer, Elliot Broderick, Marlene Broderick, Dean McLaughlin, Erwin Stirnweis, Fred Prophet, George Young, Mary Young, Roger Sims, Jack Koppen, Mona Rhines, Ed Kuss, Bruce Davis, Agnes Harook, Jim Broderick, Arnim Seielstad, Orma McCormick, Howard DeVore, Sybil DeVore, Martin Alger, Gordon Black, Fred Reich, and Burt Beerman, with Art Rapp, Doc Smith and Jean Smith as honorary members.

“Michigan Memories” by Chas. Stuart Metchette in Spacewarp 42 (September 1950).

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

About 1948 Hal Shapiro, over objection, declared that this means "Michigan Instigators of Science Fantasy for Intellectual Thinkers Society."

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