Rich Harvey has been named the winner of the 2021 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, Rich was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards.
The award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community. Bill Lampkin — winner of the 2018 Munsey Award — presented this year’s award.
Our 2021 Munsey Award winner, RICH HARVEY, was one of the first small publishers to get the pulp reprint movement off the ground. He started in the pages of PULP ADVENTURES — a fanzine that he launched in 1992 — where he published stories from COMPLETE NORTHWEST NOVEL, DIME DETECTIVE, .44 WESTERN MAGAZINE, NEW DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, and other pulps. Two of the highlights were two short stories by Norvell Page, offering the first two adventures of the popular pulp hero The Spider. Rich — along with his onetime partner, Cat Jaster — would go on to reprint two dozen of The Spider’s adventures in stand-alone volumes.
As Bold Venture Press, Rich has published a six-volume series reprinting the complete run of Johnston McCulley’s Zorro tales; reprinted unique tales from one of the longest-lived pulp magazines, RAILROAD STORIES; published “new pulp” adventures in AWESOME TALES and other publications; and pulp old and new in the continuing PULP ADVENTURES. In 2020, he was the publisher of ZORRO: THE DARING ESCAPADES, an anthology of sixteen all-new adventures from multiple authors, based on the legendary character created by Johnston McCulley. More recently, he published ZORRO AND THE IRISH COLONEL and THE PROMISE OF ZORRO, the story of Don Diego de la Vega’s path to becoming the daring, masked swashbuckler.
Along with his current partner, Audrey Parente, Rich manages the twice-a-year Pulp AdventureCon in two locations, New Jersey and Florida. These one-day events help to bring the world of pulp to a wider geographic range of fans. Rich is also great at personally communicating with fans one-on-one, whether by email or through social media.
Congratulations to Rich Harvey for this most deserved award.
Others nominated for our 2021 award included Airship 27 Productions, John Betancourt, Richard Bleiler, Gene Christie, William Contento, Chris Kalb, Rick Lai, Gary Phillips, Sheila Vanderbeek, Howard Wright, and Dan Zimmer.
Nominations are now being accepted for our 2022 Munsey Award. To make a nomination for this prestigious award, please send a short paragraph or two explaining your reasons for the nomination to PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko. You can reach Mike at mike@pulpfest.com or via regular mail at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542.
Previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, or Rusty Award are not eligible for the award. Click here for a list of our previous winners.
The deadline for nominations is May 31, 2022. Please click here for additional details. Thanks for your help.
Pictured above, the Munsey Award was created in 2009 by artist David Saunders, the son of legendary illustrator Norman Saunders. Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press and publisher of ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE produced a limited signed and numbered edition of the award. The PulpFest Committee is indebted to both David and Dan for their generous support of our community.
