In August 2022, PulpFest will be offering more than 200 auction lots of pulps, digests, vintage paperbacks, men’s adventure magazines, and more from the collection of the late Carl Joecks. A retired television cameraman, electronic equipment repairman, and carpenter from Vermont, Carl became enamored of science fiction, comic books, radio, and astronomy as a boy. He was soon collecting the things that he loved.
Acquired over many years, Mr. Joecks stored his collection in a darkened room. Most of his magazines were bagged with backing boards and stored flat for additional protection.
PulpFest 2022 will be auctioning Carl Joecks’ pulps, digest magazines, men’s adventure, and true crime magazines, plus a selection of joke and gag books and other material. A number of vintage paperbacks — including the very first “Ace Double” paperback issued by the company — comic books, and collectible hardcover books will also be part of the auction.
If you click on the auction tab at the top of the PulpFest homepage, you’ll open a page that features photographs of select items from 185 auction lots, together with brief descriptions of the items included in each lot. These lots were slated to sell at PulpFest 2020.
Unfortunately, the convention and its auction had to be canceled, due to the Pennsylvania state COVID-19 guidelines. Most, but not all of the lots listed on our current auction page will be part of our PulpFest 2022 Carl Joecks Estate Auction. We are planning to add more lots to the mix and remove some of the lots now listed on the page. We will be updating the PulpFest 2022 auction catalog at a later date.
The Carl Joecks Estate Auction will be held in the PulpFest 2022 programming room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. All attendees of PulpFest 2022 will be able to bid on the available material. People who desire to attend the PulpFest auction — but not the convention itself — will also be welcome to the Joecks Estate Auction. Additional details can be found by clicking the auction tab at the top of the PulpFest homepage.
(The March 1939 number of Western Fiction Publishing’s TOP-NOTCH DETECTIVE is the third and final issue of this Red Circle pulp magazine. Published by Martin Goodman — the man who started Marvel Comics — it is “Lot #8” of the PulpFest 2022 Carl Joecks Estate Auction. The magazine features front cover art by J. W. Scott.)
