PulpFest 50 is drawing to a close, but there is still time to get in on the action. With most of our dealers getting ready to head for home, our admission for today is only $10, which covers the cost of our highly collectible program book, The Pulpster. Children who are fifteen and younger and accompanied by a parent will be admitted free of charge.
Currently, the DoubleTree does not have any COVID policies for guests. The Pennsylvania Department of Health has lifted all COVID mitigation orders. Businesses and individuals are encouraged to follow the latest CDC safety guidance. People may choose to mask at any time. 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. Isolate and avoid contact with others, rest, and drink fluids. Call your health care provider if your symptoms worsen.
Although we can’t force anyone, we hope that everyone who plans to attend PulpFest 50 will be vaccinated against COVID-19. We have many older members who attend PulpFest. Please keep them in mind. Remember, we’re all in this together.
Although there are no programming events scheduled for Sunday, our dealers’ room will be open from 9 AM until 2 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.
Although our dealers’ room will be open, buying opportunities may be limited as most of our dealers will be packing up to head home.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of PulpFest, ERB Books has been offering a 25% discount on the standard first edition of Robert B. Zeuchner’s Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography. To receive the discount, simply place your order online and use the promo code PF25. The ERB Books sale ends tonight.
If you have not been able to attend PulpFest in 2022, start making your plans right now to join next year’s gathering. As always, expect a terrific dealers’ room and superb programming.
Please join us from August 3 – 6 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for a salute to the centennials of Weird Tales and Street & Smith’s Sport Story Magazine, as well as the 90th anniversary of the great heroes of 1933.
So plan to come to PulpFest 2023 for “Chilling Sports and Other Tales of Derring-Do.”
To stay informed about the 2022 PulpFest, please bookmark pulpfest.com. You can also like our Facebook page. Over on Twitter, you’ll find tweets with our updates. You’ll also find a great resource on our Instagram page!
And don’t forget to sign up for the PulpFest E-letter — focusing on the “behind-the-scenes” planning for next summer’s convention. Just give us your name and email address and click the “submit” button.
Many thanks to all of you who attended this year’s convention. We hope that you enjoyed yourself and plan to return next year for PulpFest 2023. Please bring your friends!
Your PulpFest Organizing Committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, William Patrick Maynard, & Barry Traylor
Out with the old and in with the new: Allen Anderson’s original cover art for the Spring 1948 Action Stories served as our main advertising image and welcome banner for PulpFest 50. Much the same can be said for Walter M. Baumhofer’s cover art for the April 1934 Dime Western Magazine. They promoted our salute to the centennial of Fiction House and our theme, “Action for a Dime.”
In 2023, we’ll be saluting the centennial of Weird Tales, among other things. One of our sub-themes will have to do with a certain Cimmerian whose adventures began in the December 1932 Weird Tales, featuring cover art by J. Allen St. John. Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria debuted in the story “The Phoenix on the Sword.”
Stay tuned in the months ahead for more news about PulpFest 2023.
