Click on a person's face to link to a larger photo or scroll down down the page further for a Master Key to the identified numbered attendees!
Photo courtesy of Gary Groth
1969 Comic Art Convention Luncheon Photo, July 5, 1969 at the Statler Hilton Hotel
My name is Aaron Caplan and I am attempting to identify each of the attendees of this 1969 NYCC "SeulingCon" Luncheon! I consider this to be a living historical document which will be updated as long as people continue to send me information. So if you can identify/confirm additional attendees, please contact me at aaron(AT)fantucchio(DOT)com or aaron(AT)gsaservice(DOT)com.
If you would like to enlarge portions of the photo, click on a person's face and it will link you to a much enlarged portion of the photo with captions of current positively identified attendees. Or you can download the "mega-file" by clicking HERE for a 14 MB .tif file, without the numbers OR 6 MB version of the photo in .jpg by clicking HERE. Both are high resolution versions of the photo that will allow you to clearly see the faces of most attendees, even those in the back row.
Key to Numbered Attendees:
1. John Verpoorten
2. Stu Schwartzberg
3. Bill Peckmann
4. Jerry Bails
5. Jean Bails
6. Jean Thomas
7. Roy Thomas
8. John Buscema
9. Tom Fagan
10. John Fantucchio
11. Mary Fantucchio
12. Kathy Roberts
13. Charlie Roberts
14. Ellie Greim
15. Martin L. Greim
16. Richard "Grass" Green
17. Arvell Jones
18. Ed Aprill
19. Gil Kane
20. Hal Foster
21. Phil Seuling
22. Carole Seuling
23. John Benson
24. Bill Pearson
25. Howard G. Groth
26. Al Milgrom
27. Joe Sinnott
28. Michelle "Mike" Nolan (directly to the left of the "28")
29. Rich Buckler (directly to the left of the "29")
30. Ron Buckler
31. Woody Gelman (the face directly above the "1" in "31")
32. Greg Theakston
33. Chester Grabowski
34. Joseph Goggin
35. Terry Murray
36. Edwin Murray
37. Bob Lewis
38. Bill Thailing
39. Bill Devine
40. Stan Landman
41. Mark Hanerfeld (Directly behind Stan - just the outline of his head is visible)
42. Eliot Wagner (face partially obscured by Len Wein)
43. Len Wein
44. Ellen Vartanoff
45. Irene Vartanoff
46. Marv Wolfman
47. Pami Texler
48. Dick Giordano
49. Alan Weiss
50. Mary Skrenes
51. Mrs. Don McGregor
52. Don McGregor
53. Sal Trapini
54. Gray Morrow
55. Jerry Weist
56. Angelo Torres
57. Archie Goodwin
58. Al Williamson
59. Tom Long
60. Jeff Jones
61. Gary Brown
62. Greg Potter
63. Jeff Potter
64. Mark Dickson
65. Gary Dolgoff
66. Bill G. Wilson
67. Gary Groth
68. Paul Webb (partially hidden by Gary Via)
69. Gary Via
70. Al Hewetson
71. Pauline Goldberg
72. Stan Goldberg
73. Lamar Blaylock (partially obscured)
74. James Moorhead
75. Craig Dawson
76. Neal Tillotson
77. Tom Watkins
Thanks to all the people who have helped update the "Master Key" to the numbered attendees in this photo. These include Roy Thomas, Michelle Nolan, Bill Schelly, Irene & Ellen Vartanoff, Bob Cosgrove, Glenn Goggin, John Benson, Gary Groth, Alan Weiss, Rich Buckler, Paul Webb, Steven Rowe, Greg Theakston, Sharon Karibian, James Moorhead, Neal Tillotson and a few others that sent in updates that I have lost track of (please send me a note and I will credit you). A special thanks to Gary Groth for the high resolution photo image itself.
