For the last fifty years, PulpFest has celebrated mystery, adventure, science fiction, and much more. The pulp magazines of the early twentieth century — cheaply-priced all-fiction magazines printed on pulpwood paper — were the vessel where the hardboiled detective, science fiction, and sword and sorcery genres developed and flourished. The pulps gave us Buck Rogers, Conan the Barbarian, Cthulhu, Doc Savage, Hopalong Cassidy, John Carter of Mars, Sam Spade, The Shadow, Solomon Kane, Tarzan, Zorro, and many other pop culture icons.
We hope you’ll join us at PulpFest 50 as we celebrate “A Half-Century of Pulp Cons” in recognition of our golden anniversary. And what better way to celebrate than with a brand new PulpFest t-shirt!
A big hit at PulpFest 2018, we’ll have a limited number of PulpFest t-shirts at this year’s convention. They’ll be available in medium, large, extra-large, 2 extra-large, and 3 extra-large. The cost is $20 per shirt. They’ll be available at our registration tables, just outside of the PulpFest dealers’ room.
These babies won’t last long! So get your Jacksons ready and show your PulpFest pride!
Our special edition PulpFest 50 t-shirt was designed by the convention’s advertising director Bill Lampkin and printed by Schuerholz Printing of Kettering, Ohio.
Emile C. Tepperman, IV has been writing occasionally for our website since 2017. He is purportedly the great-grandson of pulp author Emile Clemens Tepperman, who is best remembered for the thirteen-part Purple Invasion series that he penned for Popular Publications’ Secret Service Operator #5. He also wrote a number of the lead novels for Secret Agent X and The Spider and contributed the Suicide Squad stories to Popular’s Ace G-Man Stories. Other series written by Tepperman included the Marty Quade stories for Ten Detective Aces, Ed Race, The Masked Marksman for The Spider, and six short stories featuring the Street & Smith pulp hero known as The Avenger. He also wrote for radio.
We thank Emile IV for his contributions to pulpfest.com over the years.
