On the first Saturday of November, fall’s great pulp con returns to Bordentown, New Jersey, for another grand convention. At last year’s Pulp AdventureCon, Robert Gould — son of pulp artist John Fleming Gould — visited and brought several magnificent pieces of original artwork for display and sale. Brendan Faulkner had his usual extensive selection of vintage movies, some of which are so rare the actors and crew don’t even remember them! Gary Lovisi, the leader at Gryphon Books and hand-on-the-crank at PAPERBACK PARADE magazine, had his usual fine publications, and John Gunnison of Adventure House had his usual extensive stock of vintage and rare pulp magazines. Mala Mastroberte, our favorite pin-up model, was present — and that’s good enough for us — but Mala also had a selection of photos, books, and postcards.
Located in the Ramada Inn of Bordentown, just off exit 7 of the New Jersey Turnpike, Pulp AdventureCon is a one-day show that features an afternoon of pawing through boxes of pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, vintage movie memoribilia, golden age comics and more! You’ll find fifty tables of swell swag at this show. For further details, sign up for the convention’s mailing list by visiting http://boldventurepress.us10.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=895b936a0770f2ab003d81f30&id=ea92fbffc6.
Hopefully, conventions such as Pulp AdventureCon will keep you satisfied until the big one — PulpFest 2016 — takes place at the Hyatt Regency Columbus from July 21 – 24, 2016. We’ll try to keep you posted about such conventions in the months ahead.
(The Pulp AdventureCon banner features the artwork of Robert A. Maguire, the twentieth-century American illustrator and fine artist known primarily for his crime noir paperback cover art. Between 1950 and his death in 2005, Maguire created over 600 covers for such publishers as Pocket, Dell, Ace, Harper, Avon, Silhouette, Ballantine, Pyramid, Bantam, Lion, Berkeley, Beacon and Monarch.)
