PulpFest 2016 will have over 100 six-foot tables in its 21,600-square-foot dealers’ room. Wall tables will cost $80 and island tables will be $70. All dealers will also be required to purchase regular four-day memberships for themselves and for any helpers accompanying them to PulpFest. Wall tables and placement within the dealers’ room will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The floor-to-ceiling windows at one end of the dealers’ room will limit the availability of wall tables. Please time your registration for the convention accordingly.
For those dealers who will be staying at the Hyatt Regency Columbus, PulpFest is pleased to offer a third table free for every two tables that you rent, a tremendous savings. That’s buy two and get one free to thank you for helping to defray the convention’s substantial costs by staying at the host hotel.
There will be no height restrictions on any tables. Displays will be allowed on tables as long as they can stand safely. Please use common sense and courtesy to design your displays. All members registering as dealers must have material for sale at their tables. If you have any special needs — electrical outlets, a desire to be positioned near certain dealers, unique display requirements, and so on — please let us know when you register. All registered dealers will be profiled in a series of posts that will run on the PulpFest website during the last week of June. We ask that you provide us with a description of the materials that you are planning to sell at the convention and any other information — website address, store location, and so on — that will help our members learn about you.
Although the focus of PulpFest 2016 will be pulp magazines and related materials, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies and serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books can also be sold. Please remember that PulpFest is not a comic book convention. Sexually explicit material, including PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE, and OUI, will not be allowed.
Dealer set-up will take place on Thursday, July 21st from 4 – 11 PM. Selling to early-bird shoppers will be allowed on July 21st, beginning at 6 PM and running until 9 PM. The dealers’ room will be open to dealers on Friday, July 22nd, beginning at 9 AM. It will open to all PulpFest members beginning at 10 AM. All dealers are expected to be set up on Thursday evening by 11 PM and be open for business on Friday, July 22nd, at 10 AM. If you are not able to comply, please discuss your needs with convention chairperson Jack Cullers by emailing him at jack@pulpfest.com or writing him at the address noted below.
Please click here to download our 2016 dealer registration form. Our annual dealer newsletter will be available at a later date. To pay for your dealer membership, please see the instructions below.
Payment Instructions
The deadline for advance registrations is Monday, 07/18/16 at 10 PM. To pay for your registration, please send your check or money order to David J. Cullers, 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305 or use our Paypal Order page. If you pay via Paypal, you’ll also have to register via email, providing all of the information required on our registration forms to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.
For our dealers’ room hours, please click on the “2016 Schedule” link located on our home page.
For information about the Hyatt Regency Columbus, please visit our Hotel page. You’ll also find instructions on how you can book a room on that page.
Questions about member or dealer registrations should be directed to Jack Cullers by emailing jack@pulpfest.com or writing to the mailing address listed above.
