As the leaves disappear from the trees, the pulp and paperback convention scene draws to a close. Classicon, one of the oldest pulp and paperback shows, marks the end of the season. Two times each year, Classicon takes place at the University Quality Inn, 3121 East Grand River Ave, in Lansing, Michigan. A one-day show, you’ll find calendar, pin-up, and illustration artwork, plus thousands of rare pulp magazines, paperbacks, vintage comic books, and other collectibles for sale or trade. The fiftieth edition of Classicon will take place on Saturday, November 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM.
Although Classicon marks the end of the 2016 pulp shows, there are plenty more events coming up next year. To keep abreast of them all, please bookmark http://pulpcon.org/ and visit often. You can also find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PulpFest. For those who prefer their news short and sweet, follow our Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/pulpfest. Wherever you find PulpFest on the world wide web, you’ll be able to stay informed about all the shows in the pulp universe.
Many thanks to everyone who attended this year’s PulpFest. We hope that you enjoyed yourself and will return for PulpFest 2017. We’ll be back next summer for our forty-sixth convening. It will be a celebration of “Hardboiled Dicks, Dangerous Dames, and a Few Psychos.” Bring your friends!
(We’re fairly certain that the midget could be a psycho, but the dame in the background is surely dangerous to his well-being. The artist is William Reusswig. He supplied the cover art to the first 37 issues of Popular Publications’ DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, including the November 1, 1933 issue. Reusswig sold freelance pulp covers to general fiction magazines such as ARGOSY, SHORT STORIES and ADVENTURE and contributed cover art for the detective, war, and western genre magazines.)
