story is fuzzy about when the first scientific discipline fiction normal actually happened , but we do know that in 1936 some fans include David Kyle and Frederik Pohl occupy a train from Philadelphia to New York City to spill the beans about all things scifi with another group of fans at the home of Milton A. Rothman , who rivals Forrest J Ackerman for the large fanboy in the world award ( Rothman had formed The Boys ’ Scientifiction Club in 1930 ) . However , a group of British fan also got together in the same class to make plans for an genuine convening in 1937 , and later claimed that a mathematical group of fans meet at a home does not a convention make . So even before the cyberspace , there was squabbling over inside information and probably even convention spoilers . Some thing will never change . In honour of our insurance coverage of WonderCon , we present to you the story of Connage .
The first functionary ( American , anyhow ) “ World Science Fiction Convention ” ( now known as Worldcon ) was held in 1939 , and fall out by conventionality in Chicago and Denver in the following years . check out the photo above of some fans position at Coney Island during that first convention , on the top row on the far left is Ray Bradbury .
The first British convention in 1937 draw 20 fans , including Eric Frank Russell and Arthur C. Clarke .
The WorldCon conventionality were suspend after 1941 due to World War II , but resumed in 1946 .
WonderCon was started by John Barrett in the San Francisco Bay area in 1987 , but has since been adopted and is now part of the Comic - Con International family line of Cons . Sort of like the Shazam syndicate .
Comic - Con itself began in San Diego as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 , and attract around 500 devotee . Last year the Con ( now the San Diego Comic - Con or just Comic - Con ) had over 125,000 visitor .
There are now regional cons including everything from Eurocon to DeepSouthCon to Westercon .
There are even specific bunko that overlay one range of topic , like BotCon ( Transformers ) , Costume - Con ( costumes , duh ) , and FilkOntario ( filk music , folks music with a scifi / fantasy winding ) .
That ’s not even mentioning all of the cons for specific show and moving picture that have sprung up , like Star Trek , Farscape , Star Wars , and plenty of others . In fact , the movie GalaxyQuest is entirely con - centrical .
Our favourite title?The Wrath of Conin North Florida . Either that or the Comic Book Guy ’s Bi - Mon - Sci - Fi - Con . It ’s a flip up .
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