Harry Honig
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(September 3, 1929 – ????)
Harry Mayo Honig was a teenaged Bay Area fan active in the 1940s. He was a member of FAPA and attended the first two Staplecons.
According to a story he told Forrest J Ackerman, his social science teacher was old-time fan Aubrey MacDermott, who found out his pupil was a reader of Weird Tales at a parent-teacher conference (called because Honig had been trying to convert his classmates to atheism), sold Hornig the mimeo he would later use for his fanzines, and introduced him to area fandom.
Ackerman wrote:
So we have Harry Honig, in appearance a Yerke of yesteryears, rolly-polly, corduroyed, precocious. He tore open four letters he’d writton to pro editors and proceeded to read them to me before sending them out. His criticism of Planet was particularly interesting, inasmuch as he admitted he had never read a story in it, nor did he expect to. He expected to be voted an original by the readers, through their sheer awe when he mentioned the extent of his collection. And when it comes to that, the kid really has stuff.... "My Dad," he said,'"says if I bring one more book in the house, he’s going to move out," And then, as an afterthought: "I wonder if Mother will accompany him?" Now Harry’s concentrating on fanmags and originals. And he wants to be buried with his collection....
In Shangri-L'Affaires 17 (August 1944), Lora Crozetti noted:
The last time I saw him, he announced that he was no longer an atheist, but an agnostic, and that he was off to Pershing Square to get into an argument with the first bum that would argue with him. He has not been seen or heard of since.
Honig (#5) and his teacher Aubrey MacDermott (#8) with other fans at Staplecon 1, May 1943. Photo from Staplecon memory book.
| Person | 1929—???? |
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