Year after year, there are countless individuals and organizations that help to make PulpFest such a great event. The PulpFest organizing committee wants to thank everyone for their invaluable assistance in helping to make PulpFest 50 a success. We could not have done it without you:
Our front desk staff – Marge Coiner, Sally Cullers, Samantha and Eli Cullers, and Jack Cullers.
Our panelists and presenters – Jim Beard, John Bruening, Christopher Paul Carey, Ron Chandler, Mike Croteau, Jack Cullers, Tony Davis, Bob Deis, Jennifer DiGiacomo, Wyatt Doyle, Win Scott Eckert, Noir Hayes, Morgan Holmes, Keith Howell, Ed Hulse, Don Hutchison, Rick Lai, Bill Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, Craig McDonald, Walker Martin, William Patrick Maynard, Will Murray, Garyn Roberts, David Saunders, Frank Schildiner, Paul Spiteri, Mark Wheatley, and Cathy Mann Wilbanks.
Many thanks to Mike Chomko and Barry Traylor for the time they devoted to assembling this year’s auction. Also, a big thank you to David and Regie Powell for their work before and after our PulpFest 50 auction. Thanks also to our auctioneers John Gunnison and Joseph Saine and our auction staff, Marge Coiner, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, and Bill Lampkin.
We want to thank our technical staff – William Lampkin – and our behind-the-scenes help – David Saunders and Dan Zimmer. We’d certainly be remiss if we forgot to mention our contributors to pulpfest.com: Mike Chomko, Kenneth Grant, William Lampkin, Sara Light-Waller, Craig McDonald, William Patrick Maynard, Laurie Powers, Christopher Ryan, Leslie Silberberg, Derek Starr, and Emile C. Tepperman, IV. We’d also like to thank our guest contributors to our “Why PulpFest? series” — Tony Davis, Bob Deis, Jennifer DiGiacomo, Wyatt Doyle, and Madeleine Gagné.
Thanks must be extended to Kate Knecht and the rest of the terrific staff at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry.
The organizing committee would also like to thank the people who helped to create The Pulpster #31 – editor William Lampkin, assistant editor Peter Chomko, publisher Mike Chomko, Schuerholz Printing, plus contributors Jack Cullers, Tony Davis, Mort Künstler, Sara Light-Waller, Curt Phillips, Darrell Schweitzer, Emily Sisler, Dan Smeddy, David W. Smith, and Jess Terrell. Many thanks are also offered to the magazine’s advertisers – The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Fantasy Illustrated, First Fandom Experience, Heartwood Books & Art, Heritage Auctions, Künstler Enterprises Ltd., Larque Press, Lucina Press, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, Murania Press, New Texture and the Men’s Adventure Library, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, the Pulp Factory Awards, Recoverings, Redfield Arts Audio, The Shadowed Circle, Stark House Press, ThePulp.Net, Vanguard Publishing, and the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention.
Many thanks to the nominators and Lamont Award, Munsey Award, and Rusty Hevelin Service Award winners who helped to select the winner of this year’s Munsey, Rick Lai. Congratulations to Rick and to all of the nominees for our 2022 award. Thank you to author William Patrick Maynard for presenting this year’s award.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for the books and other material that were donated to PulpFest for distribution to our members or to serve as door prizes: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Gordon Van Gelder and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Meteor House, Mike Chomko, Books, Matt Moring and Steeger Books, and Jerry Schneider and Pulpville Press.
We would also like to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for loaning the convention their sound system. Thanks also to our website sponsors, Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mike Chomko Books, SmartWritingService.com, and ThePulp.Net.
Thanks must also be extended to Adventure House, Age of Aces Books, Airship 27, Books from the Crypt, Brenner’s Collectable Books, Christopher Paul Carey, Wayne Carey, Ron Chandler, Mike Chomko Books, Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle of New Texture, Dearly Departed Books, Jennifer DiGiacomo, DreamHaven Books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton, Flinch! Books, Henry G. Franke III, Martin Grams, Heartwood Books and Art, Bob Kindel of Light Trading, LLC, Michael & Tracey Kowal, Sara Light-Waller, John McMahan, Tom Martin, William Patrick Maynard, Meteor House, Matt Moring of Steeger Books, Garyn & Virginia Roberts, Darrell Schweitzer, Steven Spilger, Tim’s Books, Anthony Tollin of Sanctum Books, Bill Trible, Todd Warren, We Are Doc Savage, Chris Maffei of Well-Stacked Books, and John Wooley for sponsoring this year’s pizza night at the DoubleTree.
Finally, thanks to Steve Ericson, Martin Grams, Jeff Harper, Todd McDevitt and New Dimension Comics, Curt Phillips, and the conventions, bookstores, comic and collectible shops that helped to promote our show by distributing and displaying our advertising materials. We should also mention Christopher Bowser of Geek’s Guide to Pittsburgh, as well as the websites, newspapers, and other media outlets that promoted PulpFest throughout the Pittsburgh area.
Thank you as well to the dealers, attending members, and supporting members of PulpFest 50. It was due to your encouragement and support that our convention was successful. We hope to see all of you in the coming year — along with a good many newcomers — for PulpFest 2023.
We’ll be celebrating the centennials of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Sport Story Magazine, and Weird Tales, as well as the 90th anniversary of the Great Pulp Heroes. Please join us from August 3 – 6 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for “Chilling Sports and Great Heroes” at PulpFest 2023.
If we’ve neglected anyone, please accept our apology and our gratitude. Write to Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com and the oversight will be corrected.
The PulpFest 50 welcome banner was adapted by William Lampkin from Allen Anderson’s original cover art for Action Stories for Spring 1948. Published by Fiction House, we saluted the company’s centennial and more during this year’s convention.
