While you’re waiting for PulpFest 2019 to arrive, why not check out this year’s Dum-Dum, the annual gathering of Edgar Rice Burroughs enthusiasts? Taking place August 1 – 4 in Willcox, Arizona, the convention is hosted by the Apache Devils Chapter of The Burroughs Bibliophiles and the Sulphur Springs Valley Historical Society. You can book a room at the convention’s host hotel — the Holiday Inn Express in Willcox — by calling 520-384-3333 and using the ERB letter code.
The dealers’ room and most of the programming will be at the Willcox Community Center. Bob Boze Bell, president and executive editor of TRUE WEST MAGAZINE, will be the keynote speaker. His presentation will examine “Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Apache Kid.” There will also be presentations on the Apache Wars, and a showing of the film TARZAN’S GREATEST ADVENTURE at the historic Willcox Theater.
To learn more about the 2019 Dum-Dum — including how to register — please visit erbzine.com/dumdum/ or contact Frank Puncer at fwpuncer@gmail.com or by phone at 520-281-1818.
And lest you forget, PulpFest 2019 will begin on Thursday, August 15, and run through Sunday, August 18. Join PulpFest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pennsylvania’s “Steel City” of Pittsburgh. We’ll be celebrating “Children of the Pulps and Other Stories” at this year’s gathering. Click our Programming button below our homepage banner to get a preview of all the great presentations at this year’s event.
To join PulpFest 2019, click the Register button below our homepage banner. To book a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton — our host hotel — click the Book a Room button, also found on our homepage.
To keep abreast of all our PulpFest announcements, please bookmark pulpfest.com or like our Facebook page. Over on Twitter, you’ll find tweets with our updates. You’ll also find selected posts on various newsgroups, including Pulpmags. And don’t forget about our Instagram page! PulpFest is exploring “The Children of the Pulps” on that site.
(The focus of the 2019 Dum-Dum will be the Apache novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first of these — “The War Chief” — was serialized in five parts, beginning with the April 16, 1927 issue of ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY. The author’s second Apache novel began about a year later in the May 19, 1928 issue of the same magazine. Entitled “The Apache Devil,” it was serialized in six parts. The first segment copped the cover spot of the magazine, featuring a painting by Paul Stahr. From 1924 until 1934, Stahr worked extensively as a pulp cover artist for the Munsey magazines. He also painted covers for many books.
Writing about the Apache novels, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. suggests that, “Burroughs’ great respect for the West and compassion for the exploitative treatment of the Indians at the hands of the treacherous pin-dah-lickoyee (“white eyes”) is manifested throughout this honest, vivid, and sympathetic portrait of the West that does credit to both the Indians and Edgar Rice Burroughs.”)
