PulpFest is not only lauded for its excellent programming but also its very substantial dealers’ room.
Beginning on Thursday, August 19, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry will be home to thousands of collectible pulp magazines and digests, vintage paperbacks, first edition hardcovers and series books, original art, B-movies and serials, collectible comic books, and much more.
What dealers are we expecting at PulpFest 2021? For the last five days, we’ve been profiling our dealers, telling you a little bit about each of them so you get to know them . . .
GARYN and VIRGINIA ROBERTS from northern Wisconsin will be bringing lots of good, fresh old treasures at bargain prices. They’ll have science fiction, mystery, and western pulps, young adult series books, Big Little Books, Golden and Silver Age comic books, pulp replicas, hardcovers, paperbacks, and more. Garyn is the winner of our 2013 Munsey Award. Usually, we put Garyn to work as a presenter, but he has this year off. Rest assured, we’ll be nagging him about our 2022 PulpFest in a few short weeks.
A hearty welcome to BENJAMIN RODRIGUEZ, selling at PulpFest for the first time during our August convention.
A full-time proprietor of an antique toy shop by day and a mystery mavin by night, JOSEPH SAINE returns to PulpFest for another go-round. Hailing from northwest Ohio, among Joe’s treasures will be a variety of pulps, a large collection of quality vintage paperbacks, Big Little Books, and more. A professional auctioneer, Joe is one of the leading dealers of antique toys and toy soldiers in the Midwest. He will be helping us with our annual Saturday night auction. This year’s auction will consist of lots provided by dealers and PulpFest attendees. It will consist of books, pulps, paperbacks, digests, original art, fanzines, and much. With Joe Saine at the microphone, prepare to be entertained.
World Fantasy Award winner DARRELL SCHWEITZER has been publishing in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields since the early 1970s. He will be selling copies of his two-volume retrospective, THE BEST OF DARRELL SCHWEITZER, AWAITING STRANGE GODS — his Lovecraftian fiction collection — THE ROBERT E. HOWARD READER, THE INNSMOUTH TABERNACLE CHOIR HYMNAL, and anthologies that he has edited, including THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS REVEALED. Darrell will also have magazines such as INTERZONE, SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY MAGAZINE, WEIRDBOOK, and back issues of WEIRD TALES (a magazine that he co-edited for 19 years). Finally, he will have a selection of Wildside Press titles, including their Robert E. Howard volumes and pulp facsimile reprints, as well as used hardcover and paperback books. Darrell will also be reading from his work during our New Fictioneers’ author readings on Friday, August 20.
Pittsburgh’s DONALD E. SIMPSON is the cartoonist/creator of the comic books MEGATON MAN, BORDER WORLDS, and BIZARRE HEROES. Don has taught workshops in cartooning and figure drawing for a number of years and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in History of Art and Architecture in 2013. He’ll be selling copies of his dark and visionary graphic novel, BORDER WORLDS, original comic art from his 1992 Fantagraphics adaptation of KING KONG and other works, accepting pen and ink commissions, and more at his table at PulpFest 2021.
TOM SKEMP a longtime collector from Latrobe, Pennsylvania who will be bringing some unusual material that will be fresh to Pulpfest. He’ll be selling Sunday & daily comic sections and books recently culled from his extensive paperback collection. Check out his table for some thrills and great finds.
STEVEN SPILGER, out of South Bend, Indiana, has been collecting and selling both Silver and Golden Age comics, pulps, books, fanzines, and more for over thirty years. More recently, he’s added illustrative art to the mix. He calls his business, MR. POLYESTER BOOKS & COMICS. The name came from his college friends, who watched him wear the same polyester leisure suit for all of his college yearbook photos. Steven has been a regular PulpFest dealer and supporter for many years.
Our 2011 Munsey Award winner, ANTHONY TOLLIN, will be selling his SANCTUM BOOKS pulp reprints – The Avenger, The Black Bat, Doc Savage, Nick Carter, The Phantom Detective, The Shadow, The Skipper, The Spider, and The Whisperer – nine of the greatest pulp heroes in one of the best formats imaginable. He’ll also have his special multi-packs featuring art prints, preliminary pulp cover art by Jerome and George Rozen, original Shadow comic book art, and other unique items. And don’t forget, Anthony will be part of our very special panel, “Walter B. Gibson and His Shadows,” on Satuday, August 21. He’ll be appearing with Ed Hulse, Will Murray, and James Steranko.
A pulp collector for over fifty years, SHEILA VANDERBEEK is from Kalamazoo, Michigan. She’ll be bringing pulp magazines from all genres for sale or trade. Of course, the more she sells, the more she’ll be able to buy from the many fine dealers who will be attending PulpFest 2021. Sheila is one of our nominees for the 2021 Munsey Award.
TODD WARREN is a pulp and comic book collector who attended Pulpfest for the first time in 2017. He’s been a PulpFest dealer since 2018. An Overstreet advisor, Todd will be offering vintage pulps, paperbacks, books, a few comic books, and lots of pulp enthusiasm! He’ll have ROSS WARREN along to lend a hand.
One of the highlights from PulpFest 2018 was the art show featuring the work of illustrator MARK WHEATLEY. Inducted into The Overstreet Hall of Fame in July 2017, Mark is a longtime Edgar Rice Burroughs fan and admirer of the work of Philip José Farmer. He’s painted covers for Norvell W. Page’s THE SPIDER: SATAN’S MURDER MACHINES and AMAZON NIGHTS by Arthur O. Friel and, in collaboration with G. D. Falksen, created the book DOCTOR CTHULITTLE. Mark also illustrated SONGS OF GIANTS: THE POETRY OF PULP, a collection of the very best horror, dark fantasy, and heroic sword and sorcery poetry written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and H. P. Lovecraft. How’s that for some top-notch pulp credentials? Please welcome Mark and his wife, CAROL, back for another PulpFest.
DAVID WHITE of suburban Chicago returns to PulpFest after a few years’ absence. He has been collecting for about forty years and selling since 2006, mostly through ebay as DAVE’S COMIC VAULT. At PulpFest 2021, David will have science-fiction pulps as well as some hero and horror magazines. He’ll also be selling fanzines, paperbacks, digests, and pulp reprints.
Author CHET WILLIAMSON is happy to return to PulpFest with the convention’s goodwill ambassador, Barry Traylor. In addition to his own books for sale at his table, Chet will have some nice condition pulp rarities for sale at this year’s convention. Of course, Chet will be happy to sign any of his books for you.
If you are a dealer or collector who would like to sell at PulpFest, please click the “Registration” button just below the banner at the top of our home page. You can also email convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com for further information about selling at the convention.
If you still need to book a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry — just north of Pennsylvania’s “Steel City,” please call 1-800-222-8733 or 724-776-6900. Be sure to mention PulpFest.
Designed by PulpFest’s artistic director, William Lampkin, our PulpFest 2021 postcard features the work of artist Margaret Brundage. It was originally created for the January 1936 issue of WEIRD TALES. To learn more about the artist and her work, be sure to catch “The Weird Tales of Margaret Brundage,” on Friday, August 20, in the PulpFest programming room.
Writing in his Afterword, acclaimed artist Stephen R. Bissette calls Don Simpson’s BORDER WORLDS, “An adult merger of science fiction, mystery, noir, and eroticism.” Published by Dover Books in 2017, Simpson’s BORDER WORLDS is a reprint of the back-up stories in MEGATON MAN issues 8 – 10, BORDER WORLDS issues 1 – 7, and BORDER WORLDS: MAROONED issue 1. The cover art is by Donald E. Simpson.
Published in 2019 by Insight Studios, SONGS OF GIANTS: THE POETRY OF PULP is a collection of the very best poetry written by three giants of pulp literature: Burroughs, Howard, and Lovecraft. Illustrated by Mark Wheatley, it was published as a limited edition, signed by the artist. It recently won the Robert E. Howard Foundation Valusian Award for Outstanding Achievement.
