PulpFest is not only lauded for its excellent programming but also for its very substantial dealers’ room.
Beginning on Thursday, August 4, 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 50? For the next five days, we’ll be profiling our dealers, telling you a little bit about each of them so you get to know them.
John and Maureen Gunnison of Adventure House will be offering their usual extensive stock of pulp magazines as well as High Adventure, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and the many pulp replicas and collections they have published under the Adventure House banner. John will also be one of our auctioneers during this year’s member auction, taking place on Saturday, August 6. To learn more about Adventure House, please visit www.adventurehouse.com/.
Since 2007, Age of Aces Books has been offering high-quality, affordably-priced reprints of classic pulp aviation stories. Chris and David Kalb have scoured hundreds of issues of titles like Dare-Devil Aces, Battle Birds, Flying Aces, and other air pulps to present to a modern audience the most thrilling air stories featuring the most unforgettable forgotten heroes — The Black Falcon, Captain Philip Strange, The Three Mosquitoes, and others! You can learn more by visiting their website at ageofaces.net. Chris Kalb is one of our nominees for the 2022 Munsey Award.
PulpFest is happy to welcome back Rob Davis and Ron Fortier of Airship 27 after an absence of several years. Founded in 2004, Airship 27 publishes brand new adventures of classic heroes with over 127 titles in their catalog, including Captain Hazzard, The Domino Lady, Sherlock Holmes, and Sinbad the Sailor. Coupled with today’s most talented writers and illustrators and delivered in colorful, beautifully designed volumes to please the most critical book lover, Airship 27 aims to produce the finest quality books that are always fun to read. Ron Fortier is one of our nominees for the 2022 Munsey Award.
Jim & Walter Albert are brothers from Arkansas and Pennsylvania respectively. They’ve been collecting for years and selling at Pulpcon and PulpFest for a long time. Stop by their tables for an excellent selection of pulps, paperbacks, hardcovers, fanzines, and much more. You’re bound to find excellent values on some terrific items from Jim and Walter. You probably won’t leave empty-handed.
Chicago’s Mark Alvarado, a longtime collector of books and pulp magazines, will once again be exhibiting at PulpFest. Although we won’t know what he’ll have at this year’s convention, it’s usually something that’s super exciting. Please welcome Mark back to yet another summertime pulp con!
Although Steve Ericson and Books from the Crypt have been very supportive of PulpFest over the years, this will be their first time selling at the convention. A family-owned business now celebrating its 25th Anniversary selling collectible science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery magazines, paperbacks, and first editions, Books from the Crypt will have many items at PulpFest 50 that are not available through their website.
PulpFest 50 welcomes Michael Brenner of Brenner’s Collectable Books back to our convention. Michael specializes in science fiction and mystery books, signed first editions, vintage paperbacks, books into film, and more. He has been buying, selling, and passionately collecting books for over thirty years and is a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA.
The Burroughs Bibliophiles is a nonprofit literary society devoted to studying and promoting interest in the works, creations, and life of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The members of the organization will be represented at this year’s PulpFest by Treasurer Henry G. Franke III, who also serves as the editor of The Burroughs Bulletin and The Gridley Wave, and Chairman Gary Buckingham, the author of Tarzan: Untamed Frontiers and Tarzan and the Lion of Judah. To learn more about The Burroughs Bibliophiles, visit burroughsbibliophiles.com/ or email Henry at BurroughsBibliophiles@gmail.
Continuing the adventures of H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain, Wayne Carey has authored two novels and a short story for Airship 27 Productions’ Quatermain: The New Adventures. Wayne has also written supernatural and political thrillers, science fiction, detective fiction, and more. He’s a regular contributor to the steampunk anthology Cogs in Time. A former research scientist and teacher, Wayne’s stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies such as the award-winning Legends of New Pulp Fiction.
A dealer since 1976, Nick Certo always manages to unearth lots of rare and desirable items. A resident of Newburgh, New York, he brings choice selections of pulps and related items — including original artwork — to the conventions where he exhibits. Be sure to stop by his table. In the meantime, please visit the Nicholas J. Certo website at AbeBooks.com.
Ron Chandler is an indie author from Frederick, Maryland who writes adventure and nature fiction. This will be his second year at PulpFest. His short stories have been featured in literary magazines across the country. His books include D is for Dudley & Other Nature Tales, Ghost Riders of Cumberland Gap, Incredible Beaver-Chewed Walking Sticks & Other Nature Tales, and Neptune’s Garden and Other Adventures. Ron will also be part of our Friday afternoon panel on “Bringing the Pulps to the 21st Century — The Writers.”
Our 2010 Munsey Award winner, Mike Chomko, will be representing Stark House Press at PulpFest 50. He’ll have various titles from the Stark House catalog, plus a selection of other books and periodicals, including back issues of The Pulpster. To learn more about the many books that he carries, please visit the Mike Chomko Books website and download a copy of his latest catalog. Mike is also the marketing and programming director for PulpFest.
Ligonier resident Ron Adams can be considered one of the true believers when it comes to the classic horror films of the 1920s through the 1950s. In 1997, he threw the first Monster Bash in the Pittsburgh area. Ron also has his own retail venture called Creepy Classics. He will be offering rare horror and science fiction films, as well as cliffhangers on Blu-Ray, and DVD, monster magazines — including his own Monster Bash — books, tee shirts, posters, and various collectibles.
PulpFest Chairman Jack Cullers is the person to see if you’re looking for pulps and out-of-print paperbacks, collectible fanzines, pulp reprints, and hardbound fiction and non-fiction. Find your way to Jack’s table and you’ll be treated to a wide variety of materials at very reasonable prices. You may just come across something you’ve been questing after for years. Jack and his wife Sally were the winners of our Rusty Award in 2012.
If you would like to register as a dealer at this year’s PulpFest, we’ve run out of tables. Please contact Jack Cullers to be added to our waiting list. You can reach him at jack@pulpfest.com.
To enjoy our dealers’ room, click the Registration button at the top of this page to join PulpFest. And don’t forget to book a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania. They’re going fast! So don’t wait! Remember, you must book your room by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, July 20, to get the special convention rate.
You can also reserve a room by calling 800.222.8733 or 724.776.6900. Be sure to mention PulpFest to get the special convention rate.
We’ll be profiling more of our PulpFest 50 dealers through Friday, July 22. Please visit our site on Tuesday for our next segment.
Our PulpFest 50 postcard was adapted by William Lampkin from Allen Anderson’s original cover art for Action Stories for Spring 1948. Published by Fiction House, we’ll be saluting the publisher’s centennial at PulpFest 50. Our featured image is also by Allen Anderson, adapted from his cover art for Frontier Stories for Summer 1950.
Spicy Mystery Stories for August 1936 was originally published by Culture Publications, Inc. Our image is an Adventure House replica of the original pulp magazine, featuring cover art by H. J. Ward.
Devildog Squadron is a collection featuring a squadron of two-fisted fighters of the air, able to out-maneuver, out-fly, and out-scrap any bizarre menace that came their way. The stories were written by Donald E. Keyhoe and originally published by A. A. Wyn’s Magazine Publishers’ Sky Birds. This brand-new collection features a cover design by Chris Kalb.
