Supermancon

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

Dave Cohen and Eric Bentcliffe had originally made a bid for a Manchester convention to be called Supermancon at the 1952 convention.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

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

Attendees

There are 133 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)
28. George Charters (A)
29. Vin¢ Clarke (A)
30. Dave Cohen (AN)
31. Dave Cohen (Australia)
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
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 (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
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 (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.

Publications

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.

• SuperMancon publications and photos on fanac.org.
• Pictures at efanzines.
• Article with pictures by Rob Hansen.

Future conventions

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Coroncon	Eastercon	Cytricon
Mancon	Mancon	Thirdmancon
	1954

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