There’s still some time to get in on the action at PulpFest 2021. Our dealers’ room will be open today from 10 AM until 4:45 PM. Located in the Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, our dealers’ room will feature exhibitors selling and trading pulp magazines and related materials, digests, vintage paperbacks, contemporary genre fiction and pulp reprints, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first-edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age as well as pulp-related comic books and games. That’s why PulpFest is known as the “pop culture center of the universe!”
Single-day memberships will be available for $20 on Saturday and $10 on Sunday. Children who are fifteen and younger and accompanied by a parent will be admitted free of charge. The general public is welcome to attend.
You will be able to register for the convention at any time during regular dealers’ room hours. To help things move smoothly, please bring along a completed registration form. You can download a copy by clicking here or through the link found on our registration page. Paper forms will also be available at the door.
There is ample free parking surrounding the convention’s host hotel. It is very conveniently located at the intersection of three major roadways in Cranberry Township. The DoubleTree is just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate-79. The address is 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, Pennsylvania. We have a map on our website or click here for a link to a large map of the area.
Our daytime programming will start at 1 PM with our “New Fictioneers” author readings. Appearing today will be Christopher Ryan, Jonathan Weischel, Evan Witmer, and William Patrick Maynard. PulpFest 2021 will be hosting nearly thirty contemporary writers, artists, and publishers.
Our afternoon programming continues at 3 PM with an interview featuring Doc Savage author Will Murray. We hope you’ll join us for “The Wild Adventures of Will Murray — A PulpFest Profile.” Tim King will follow our interview with a look at the magical secrets of Walter B. Gibson and his stories of the Dark Avenger. Join Tim in our programming room for “In the Shadow of Houdini.”
Saturday evening’s events will include “Eva Lynd — Countess, Actress, Covergirl,” presented by Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle, the co-editors of the Men’s Adventure Library. Bob and Wyatt will explore the life and career of Eva Lynd, the favorite model of artists Norm Eastman and Al Rossi.
Our salute to the ninetieth anniversary of THE SHADOW, A DETECTIVE MAGAZINE continues with a panel presentation on “Walter B. Gibson and His Shadows.” It’s a look at the men who were Maxwell Grant, related by those who knew them. We hope you’ll join us as we welcome Ed Hulse, Will Murray, and Jim Steranko for this very exciting panel presentation.
The PulpFest 2021 member auction will follow tonight’s Shadow presentation. All members of PulpFest 2021 can submit items to sell through our auction. If you’d like to sell something in the auction, you’ll find instructions in your registration packet. You can also find the instructions by clicking the auction button at the top of our homepage.
All auction lots must be submitted no later than 1:30 PM on Saturday, August 21. If you have questions concerning the PulpFest auctions, please talk to programming and marketing director Mike Chomko at his dealer tables.
The 2021 ERBFest concludes tonight with “Introducing Pulp’s Legacy of Adventure to a Younger Generation.” This panel will feature members of Freshly Squeezed Pulp, a group of improv performers who create The Adventures of Tarzan® podcast, a twenty-episode authorized series now available through Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, and Spotify.
A “Barsoomian Bull Session,” hosted by Henry G. Franke III, will follow tonight’s ERBFest panel in the hotel lounge.
Our salute to The Shadow concludes with a showing of the DETECTIVE STORIES short, THE CIRCUS SHOW-UP, and THE INVISIBLE AVENGER, starring Richard Derr.
You can find additional details about all of our programming by clicking the button found at the top of our website. Or click here to link to our 2021 mobile schedule. Each event on the schedule is linked to a post that provides further information on that event. Just click on the event’s title. Watch for the “panels” banner to find our programming area at the convention. The general public is welcome to attend our evening programming, free of charge.
If you are not from the Pittsburgh area and have yet to book your room for PulpFest 2021, you can try calling 1-800-222-8733 to reach our host hotel. Perhaps there is a vacancy.
According to the DoubleTree’s website, masks are optional for guests and DoubleTree Team Members who are fully vaccinated. The hotel follows Hilton’s brand standard and asks those who are not vaccinated to please wear a mask indoors and practice social distancing.
With the delta variant taking off around the United States, the CDC recommends that everyone, vaccinated or not, should wear masks in indoor public settings in areas with “substantial” or “high” virus transmission. Currently, the counties of Allegheny and Butler — where the DoubleTree is located — are in these categories.
To keep up to date with Pennsylvania’s coronavirus numbers, click here.
If you are exhibiting any symptoms associated with COVID-19, please stay at home. You should not attend PulpFest or ERBFest. Isolate and avoid contact with others, rest, and drink fluids. If your symptoms worsen, call your health care provider.
PulpFest 2021 will continue through tomorrow afternoon. Our dealers’ room will be open to all members from 9 AM to 2 PM as our exhibitors pack up. If you are coming just for the day, please be aware that buying and selling opportunities may be limited. Admission to the convention for Sunday, August 22, will be $10, the cost of our annual program book, THE PULPSTER.
Our featured image is George Rozen’s iconic painting of The Shadow, originally created for the August 1, 1933 number of THE SHADOW MAGAZINE, a Street & Smith publication.
Joe DeVito painted the jacket art for DOC SAVAGE: THE EMPIRE OF DOOM — one of two novels pairing the Man of Bronze with The Shadow. He is the regular artist for Will Murray’s “The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage.”
Our Eva Lynd postcard features a cover painting by Norm Eastman that was originally done for the December 1968 issue of NEW MAN. Eastman’s cover art is reproduced here, courtesy of The Rich Oberg Collection.
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar” — serialized in five parts, beginning with the November 18, 1916 number of Munsey’s ALL-STORY WEEKLY — featured cover art by P. J. Monahan on its first installment, pictured above.
You’ll find our complete schedule for Thursday, August 19, below. You can also access our schedule via your mobile phone or tablet, by visiting http://pulpcon.org/schedule/.
PulpFest 2021 Schedule
Saturday, August 21
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All PulpFest Members
Author Readings
1:00 – 1:25 PM — Christopher Ryan
1:30 – 1:55 PM — Jonathan Weischel
2:00 – 2:25 PM — Evan Witmer
2:30 – 2:55 PM — William Patrick Maynard
Afternoon Programming
3:00 – 3:50 PM — The Wild Adventures of Will Murray — A PulpFest Profile (an interview with Laurie Powers and William Patrick Maynard)
4:00 – 4:45 PM — In the Shadow of Houdini (Tim King)
3:45 – 4:45 PM — PulpFest Member Auction Preview (in auction set-up rooms)
Evening Programming
7:00 – 7:50 PM — Eva Lynd — Countess, Actress, Covergirl (Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle moderating)
7:55 – 8:45 PM — Walter B. Gibson and His Shadows (Will Murray and Jim Steranko, with Ed Hulse moderating)
8:50 – 9:20 PM — ERBFest 2021 — Introducing Pulp’s Legacy of Adventure to a Younger Generation (Daniel Egitto, Victoria Wang, Daniel Zhu, and others, with Madeleine “Mac” Gagné moderating)
9:30 – 11:00 PM — PulpFest Member Auction
11:15 PM – 1:00 AM — The Shadow on the Silver Screen III — The Shadow Detective Stories Short Feature THE CIRCUS SHOW-UP and THE INVISIBLE AVENGER starring Richard Derr
Hotel Lounge
11:00 PM – ?? — ERBFest 2021 — A Barsoomian Bull Session (Hosted by Henry G. Franke III)
Please note that the schedule above is subject to change. To learn more about each presentation, click on the link that is embedded in each title.
