the world's first cosplayer

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23-year-old Forrest J. Ackerman, in 1939, as a spaceman at the first World Science Fiction Convention (Nycon I).This silver-suited nobody would eventually go on to become literary agent for a number of greats, including Heinlein, Bradbury, and L. Ron Hubbard, as well as the editor of one of the late 20th century's most popular science fiction

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[drabheathen]

Dude looks like Marlon Brando. Whoa.

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Streetcar Named Desire-era Marlon Brando? Yeah, I see it! It's the nose and the collinear eyebrows...