Mancon

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Mancon was (a part of) the name of a (very loose) series of conventions held in Manchester, UK between 1952 and 1976. Except the first, all other four were Eastercons.

The original Mancon, run by the Nor'west Science Fantasy Club, is sometimes (like here on the Fancy, for convenience and disambiguation from this series entry) retroactively numbered "Mancon 1", but no numeral was used at the time (or even dacades later), as it was simply the first one-off there. Supermancon was launched as an Eastercon bid for the immediately following 1953, but was "heavily defeated" by London's Coroncon at the London Eastercon 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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