Mancon

Mancon was (a part of) the name of a (very loose) series of conventions held in or near Manchester, UK between 1952 and 1976. Aside from the first, all were Eastercons.

The original Mancon, run by the Nor'west Science Fantasy Club, is sometimes retroactively numbered 'Mancon 1' (as here on the Fancy where it's for convenience and disambiguation from this series entry), but no numeral was used at the time (or even decades later).

Supermancon was initially a bid for the 1953 convention, but was 'heavily defeated' by London's Coroncon at the London SF Con of 1952 even before the trial Mancon could take place.

Convention	Dates	-GoHs / notes
Mancon	October 5, 1952	no GoH; about 80 attendees, but only one from London
Supermancon	June 4–6, 1954	John Russell Fearn
Thirdmancon	April 12–14, 1968	Ken Bulmer
Chessmancon	March 31 – April 2, 1972	Larry Niven
Mancon 5	April 16–19, 1976	Robert Silverberg, Peter Roberts
Mancon 6	July 12–15, 1991	Cancelled

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Convention
	1952—1976

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