PulpFest is a paradise for fans of pulp magazines, digests, vintage paperbacks, original artwork, and other collectibles. Collectors will also find first-edition hardcovers, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, series books, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and their related paper collectibles, old-time radio shows, vintage comic books, and more in our spacious dealers’ room. PulpFest takes place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
For those who simply like to read pulp or genre fiction, you’ll find science-fiction hardcovers and paperbacks, mysteries, adventure fiction, and countless pulp reprints from publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, Stark House Press, and Steeger Books. Fans of contemporary genre fiction will get to meet the many popular writers who regularly attend PulpFest — Jim Beard, Christopher Paul Carey, Win Scott Eckert, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, and others — and buy directly from them. And don’t forget to ask for their autograph.
PulpFest 2023 will also have panels on today’s genre fiction and art, publisher presentations, and more. Click our programming button at the top of our webpage to learn more.
Accommodating well over 100 tables, our dealers’ room will be open from 9:30 am to 4:45 pm on August 4 and 5. It will also be open from 9 am until 1:30 pm on Sunday, August 6. However, buying and selling opportunities will be limited on Sunday as most dealers will be packing up.
We will also have early-bird shopping on Thursday, August 3, from 11 am to 4:45 pm. If you stay at the DoubleTree, PulpFest is pleased to offer free early-bird privileges. That’s a great savings to reward loyal attendees who reduce the convention’s costs by staying at our host hotel. If you stay elsewhere, you can still purchase early-bird privileges for $30.
And don’t forget about the PulpFest Saturday Night Auction. On Saturday evening, August 5, PulpFest will be auctioning 75 lots of first-edition science fiction hardcovers and reference books, Armed Services Edition paperbacks, juvenile series books, convention program books, fanzines, and other material from the collection of Carl Joecks. We’ll also have over eighty lots of pulps, digest magazines, fanzines, first-edition and limited-edition hardcovers, Big Little Books, Burroughs collectibles, and more consigned to our auction by Dearly Departed Books. Be sure to bookmark pulpfest.com and watch for additional news about our auction.
You can make a reservation at the DoubleTree by clicking 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.
To learn more about registering for PulpFest 2023, please click the “registration” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage.
If you read or collect pulps, genre fiction, books, vintage paperbacks or comic books, original artwork, or other pop culture collectibles, PulpFest is the place to be. We look forward to seeing you from August 3 – 6 at PulpFest 2023, summer’s Amazing pulp con.
If you’re a paper collector, wouldn’t you like to have a time machine to join the people in the photograph above? This late May 1942 newsstand was located in Southington, Connecticut. Featured are pulp magazines, comic books, and other publications largely dated June and July 1942.
The original black and white photograph was taken by Fenno Jacobs of the Office of War Information and posted to shorpy.com — the American Historical Photo archive — by Dave, the webmaster and co-owner of Shorpy, Inc. — on December 10, 2013. The image was later colorized by Avi A. Katz and posted to his blog, “Colorizing History,” on October 19, 2014. It is used here with permission.
Why not climb aboard the PulpFest 2023 time machine for a chance to purchase some of the pulp magazines and comic books displayed in our featured image? For more information on buying at PulpFest, 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 2023 newsletter with further details about the convention.
Don’t forget to watch for our forthcoming posts on our PulpFest 2023 dealers. They’ll begin on July 10 and run through July 14.
Leslie Silberberg is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began posting on our website in 2022. She enjoys the science fiction pulps, particularly the work of such leading female writers as Leigh Brackett, Claire Winger Harris, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, C. L. Moore, Margaret St. Clair, Wilmar H. Shiras, Francis Stevens, and Leslie F. Stone. Many thanks to Ms. Silberberg for her contributions to pulpfest.com.
