If your specialty is pulp magazines, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, first edition hardcovers, original art, series books, dime novels, men’s adventure, true crime, digest, or slick magazines, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, or Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age comic books, then PulpFest is for you.
PulpFest is not only a terrific venue to sell vintage material, but it’s also a great place to market science fiction, mystery and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, and more. The people who attend our convention are pop culture enthusiasts and lovers of genre fiction and art.
Publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, and Murania Press do well selling their pulp reprints and related materials at PulpFest. So do resellers such as Mike Chomko, Books. Contemporary authors and publishers such as William Patrick Maynard, Will Murray, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Flinch Books have likewise found PulpFest to be a great event for selling their contemporary genre fiction. After all, our afternoon programming centers around contemporary fiction and art!
The exhibition hall at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry accommodates over 100 six-foot tables. And PulpFest’s fees are very affordable. Wall tables — which are limited — cost $100 and island tables are $90. All dealers and their helpers are also required to purchase full weekend memberships. Advance memberships cost $35 – 40.
You can click here to download the convention’s 2022 registration form. For additional registration information, please click the “registration” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage.
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton, please click the “Book a Room” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage. You can also reserve a room by calling 1-800-222-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest to receive the special convention rate of $129 plus tax per night.
Two complimentary breakfast coupons are included in our hotel’s nightly rate as well as free wifi and parking. Rest assured, PulpFest is very appreciative of all the dealers who help to reduce the convention’s substantial costs by staying at the DoubleTree and supporting our host hotel.
Our dealers’ room will be open at 10 AM on Friday and Saturday, August 5 – 6, and remain open until 4:45 PM. It will also be open on Sunday, August 7, from 9 AM until 2 PM. And don’t forget about our early-bird shopping hours on Thursday, August 4, from 12 to 5 PM. Dedicated fans of popular culture will be there to enjoy four hours of early shopping.
The convention will be promoted through Internet advertising and postcard giveaways at bookstores and comic shops, collectibles and pop culture events, and through other venues. PulpFest will also be advertising in Digest Enthusiast, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Paperback Parade, and other publications.
In late July, we’ll be posting about all of the dealers who will be selling at PulpFest 50. Our marketing and programming director, Mike Chomko, will be putting these posts together and releasing them through our homepage and social media sites.
So what are you waiting for? Start planning now to attend PulpFest 50 as a dealer and sell to hundreds of readers and collectors at the pop-culture center of the universe!
We look forward to seeing you from August 4 – 7 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just nineteen miles north of Pittsburgh in Mars, Pennsylvania. Please join us at PulpFest 50 — “Summer’s AMAZING Pulp Con” — where your sales will simply be FANTASTIC!
For more information about becoming a PulpFest dealer, please contact Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com or by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305. He’ll be glad to send you a PulpFest 50 newsletter with further details about the convention.
Our PulpFest 50 printed postcard has been adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from Allen Anderson’s original cover painting for the Spring 1948 number of Action Stories, a Fiction House pulp magazine. We’ll be celebrating the centennial of the pulp and comic book publisher at our 2022 PulpFest. Many thanks to Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press for the Anderson image.
Founded by John W. Glenister and Jack Kelly during the spring of 1921, Fiction House gave us Action Stories, Fight Comics, Jumbo Comics, Jungle Stories, Lariat Story Magazine, North-West Romances, Planet Stories, Rangers Comics, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Wings, and many other classic titles.
We’ll also be celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of Popular Publications’ “Dime” line of pulp magazines, particularly Dime Western and Dime Mystery. Both magazines debuted in 1932 and played a major role in the evolution of popular fiction.
Please join us August 4 – 7 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry for PulpFest 50, celebrating a half-century of pulp cons all during 2022.
