{"id":14565,"date":"2009-02-27T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14565"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:24:54","slug":"where-were-you-in-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/27\/where-were-you-in-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Where were you in ’72?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember where you were over the 1972 Memorial Day weekend? I do! <\/p>\n

I spent every hour I could at Manhattan’s McAlpin Hotel attending the 1972 EC Fan Addict convention. I paid my $7.50 entry fee and got to hang out with the madmen (and one crazy lady) behind one of the most amazing comic-book companies ever.<\/p>\n

And I have the button to prove it!<\/p>\n

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Those of you who couldn’t make it to New York back then are able to catch up with a report in the pages of the September 1972 issue of Graphic Story World<\/i> magazine, one of the high-end fanzines of the day. (And if that cover boy below puts you in mind of Watchmen<\/i>‘s Nite Owl, well, that’s not him. It’s just … The Owl, a character created by Jerry De Fuccio and Mart Bailey for a potential newspaper strip in the mid-’60s.)<\/p>\n

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Inside, spread across pages 20 and 21, was a photo essay with pictures from Janet Fries and Fred von Bernewitz, and text transcribed by John Benson. I don’t think there ever was such a well-attended EC reunion ever again. Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin, and on and on and on …<\/p>\n

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I was lucky enough to have already read every EC Comic, because a neighbor who’d owned a complete set was willing to entrust me with them a few at a time, so I knew who these creators were and what they had accomplished, and I had stars in my eyes. I sat in the front row at every panel, sketchpad tucked under one arm, which is how I got the caricature by Davis I’ve occasionally used online as my icon.<\/p>\n

But that was far from the only convention to happen that year! Also inside this issue of Graphic Story World<\/i> were reports from the First American International Congress of Comics, the 5th Annual New York Comic Art Convention (I was there, too, though I no longer remember why Jim Steranko would have been called “the Adolph Menjou of comics”), and San Diego’s West Coast Comic Art Convention (now the San Diego Comic-Con International).<\/p>\n

I wish I could have attended them all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you remember where you were over the 1972 Memorial Day weekend? I do! I spent every hour I could at Manhattan’s McAlpin Hotel attending the 1972 EC Fan Addict convention. I paid my $7.50 entry fee and got to hang out with the madmen (and one crazy lady) behind one of the most amazing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,18,58,205],"class_list":["post-14565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-feldstein","tag-comics","tag-conventions","tag-ec-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14571,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions\/14571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}