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Jerry Siegel & Bob Clampett (by Alan Light)
Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, and Bob Clampett, animation legend and one of the men responsible for many of the original Looney Tunes cartoons, along with Tex Avery, Friz Freling, and Chuck Jones. This was taken at the 1976 San Diego Comic Convention, which used to be a small fan gathering. Here’s what that con looks like today. Wikipedia estimates last year’s attendance at 130,000+.
"Scientifiction’s fans, mostly boys of 16 to 20, are the jitterbugs of the pulp magazine field. Many keep every issue, and a copy of the magazine’s first issue often fetches $25 from collectors. Publishers soon discovered another odd fact about their readers: They are exceptionally articulate. Most of these magazines have letters columns, in which readers appraise stories. Sample: “Gosh! Wow! Boyoh-boy!, and so forth and so on. Yesiree, yesiree, it’s the greatest in the land and the best that’s on the stand, and I do mean THRILLING WONDER STORIES, and especially that great, magnificent, glorious, most thrilling June issue of the mosta and the besta of science fiction magazines… ."
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From a Time Magazine article about one of the first science fiction fan conventions dated July 10th, 1939. The nerd struggle for acceptance seems to reach back very far.
