{"id":21194,"date":"2015-12-24T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21194"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:37:00","slug":"you-will-recognize-the-first-name-on-the-attendance-list-of-the-first-comic-book-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/24\/you-will-recognize-the-first-name-on-the-attendance-list-of-the-first-comic-book-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"You <em>will<\/em> recognize the first name on the attendance list of the first comic book convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six years before I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/06\/13\/you-never-forget-your-first-con\/\"><em>my<\/em> first comic book convention<\/a>, 44 other fans attended <em>the<\/em> first comic book convention. And as part of an article  recapping the 2014 New York Comic Con panel &#8220;Survivors of the First Comiccon,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=133&#038;products_id=1218&#038;zenid=1944b9682770c983cf527d59778691f2\"><em>Alter Ego<\/em> #137<\/a> reprinted a list of those who attended that July 27, 1964 gathering at Manhattan&#8217;s Workmen&#8217;s Circle Building.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the first name on the roster published immediately after the event by Bernie Bubnis. It should be one you recognize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1964NYComicConMembers.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1964NYComicConMembers-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"1964NYComicConMembers\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1964NYComicConMembers-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1964NYComicConMembers.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you were reading <em>Blastr<\/em> back when I was editing that site, you&#8217;d already know he was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blastr.com\/2013-10-14\/who-bought-first-ticket-first-comics-con-64-george-rr-martin\">the first person to purchase a ticket<\/a> to the con.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that according to the caption accompanying this image, Jerry Bails didn&#8217;t actually attend that first con, while Pat Yanchus did, but was left off the list.)<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, and read reminiscences from Len Wein, Howard Rogofsky, and others, why not order a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=133&#038;products_id=1218&#038;zenid=1944b9682770c983cf527d59778691f2\"><em>Alter Ego<\/em> #137<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years before I attended my first comic book convention, 44 other fans attended the first comic book convention. And as part of an article recapping the 2014 New York Comic Con panel &#8220;Survivors of the First Comiccon,&#8221; Alter Ego #137 reprinted a list of those who attended that July 27, 1964 gathering at Manhattan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[721,18,58],"class_list":["post-21194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alter-ego","tag-comics","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194","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=21194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21206,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions\/21206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}