-con suffix
(used to form the names of conventions, with the first element indicating the location or (typically in informal designations) the main subject or focus of the event); cf. con n.
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1939
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Mark Reinsberg
What about the Milwaukee Fictioneers? They couldnt [sic] come to the ‘Nycon’ but as a body they are pledged to be in Chicago.
In 1940—It’s Chicago! in Voice of the Imagi-Nation (#3) Sept. (inside front cover) -
1940
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Wilson Tucker
CHICON CHAT DEPT: (Beginning a new regular dept. to carry news of the coming Chicago convention).
Fan Mirror in Le Zombie (#23) 10 Feb. 4
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1942
Anthony Boucher
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The next one’s here in Los Angeles, and I’m afraid it’s called the Pacificon.
Rocket to Morgue 86 -
1951
The tenth anniversary of the first World Science Fiction Convention is to be held here in this city in a few days, Lieutenant. We call it the AnnCon as an abbreviation of Anniversary Convention. The Eighth Convention, held in the Northwest, we called the NorWesCon; the one in New Orleans, Louisiana, was the NolaCon.
Case of Little Green Men 52 -
1969
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Terry Carr
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The Baycon was so fragmented in these various ways that it seemed like a collage-con.
Fantasy Fandom in Fantastic Oct. 54/1 -
1972
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In essence, the notice said that there would be a ‘COMICON’, a meeting place for the aficionados of comic art.
Fan’s Trek Through Comic Book Conventions in Monster Times (#13) 19 July 11/1 -
1979 Famous Monsters of Filmland (#155) July 44/1
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There are now more than a quarter hundred science fiction conventions a year held in the greater Los Angeles area. A feature of one called the Galacticon late last year was…the filming of the segment of Wonder Woman which revolved around an imaginary sci-fi con.
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1992 Fantasies (front cover)
The Fourth Annual Relax-a-Con.
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