There’s still some time to get in on the action at PulpFest 2023 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania. Our dealers’ room will open to all at 9:30 am and will remain open until 4:45 pm. Located in the Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree, 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. That’s why PulpFest is known as the “pop culture center of the universe!”
There is ample free parking surrounding the convention’s host hotel. It is very conveniently located at the intersection of three major roadways in Cranberry Township. The DoubleTree is just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate-79. The address is 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, Pennsylvania. We have a map on our website or click here for a link to a large map of the area.
A single-day membership for Saturday, August 5, will be available for $25. Children who are fifteen and younger and accompanied by a parent will be admitted free of charge.
You will be able to register for the convention at any time during regular dealers’ room hours. To help things move smoothly, please bring along a completed registration form. You can download a copy by clicking here or through the link found on our registration page. Paper forms will also be available at the door.
Our daytime programming will begin at 2 pm with 100 Years of The Moon Maid, part of ERBFest 2023. It will be followed at 3 pm by Doc Savage and His Offspring, one of two panels that are part of this year’s salute to the 90th anniversary of Doc Savage Magazine. Henry G. Franke III, editor of The Burroughs Bulletin and The Gridley Wave, will also be hosting an art show inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs from 12 to 2 pm in the Chestnut Room at the DoubleTree.
Our daily auction preview will run from 3:30 – 4:40 PM. We’ll also have a second preview session from 8:05 – 8:45 pm, prior to the start of our auction. To learn more or to download an auction catalog, click here.
Tonight’s evening programming begins at 7 pm with a look at Sport Story Magazine and Its Pulp Offspring, a salute to the centennial of the sports pulp.
Following tonight’s programming events, the 2023 Munsey Award will be presented to an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community. Walker Martin will be presenting the award, standing in for last year’s Munsey winner, Rick Lai.
The Munsey Award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press.
Prior to our auction, we’ll be raffling off The Letterpress Edition of At the Earth’s Core. Authorized by and published under the imprint of ERB Inc. of Tarzana, California, the seventh title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection was donated to the convention by Jim Gerlach of ERB Books. Tickets will be available at the PulpFest 2023 registration desk for $5. You don’t need to be present at the drawing to win.
At 9 pm, our Saturday Night Auction will begin. We’ll be selling over 200 lots of material from the estate of the late Carl Joecks, a consignment from Scott & Linda Edwards of Dearly Departed Books, and member submissions. The general public is welcome to attend and bid. To learn more or to download an auction catalog, click here.
PulpFest 2023 members will also be able to submit lots to our auction. These will be sold at the end of our auction as time allows. Please read our “Auction Update for PulpFest 2023 Members” post to learn more. Our guidelines for auction submissions will also be part of each member’s registration packet.
Following our auction, we’ll close out the night with Fraternize at FarmerCon in the Ember & Vine lounge at the DoubleTree, always a highlight for FarmerCon members. Anyone can attend.
You can find additional details about all of our programming by clicking the schedule button found at the top of our website. Or click here to link to our PulpFest 2023 mobile schedule. Each event on the schedule is linked to a post that provides further information on that event. Just click on the event’s title.
Watch for the “panels” banner to find our programming area at the convention. The general public is welcome to attend our programming, free of charge.
If you are not from the Pittsburgh area and have yet to book your room for PulpFest 2023, you can try calling call 1-800-222-8733 or 724-776-6900 to reach the DoubleTree. Although the convention rate is no longer available, there may be some vacancies at the hotel. Other options include the Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, or Home2 Suites. They’re all just a few miles away from our host hotel. Click here to learn more.
Our featured image is excerpted from Joe DeVito’s painting of Doc Savage and his team, created for the back cover of Will Murray’s first Doc Savage novel, Python Isle. Introduced by Bantam Books in 1991, DeVito’s image was used throughout Murray’s run on the Doc Savage series.
Our PulpFest 2023 webcard was adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from Modest Stein’s cover for the March 1939 issue, first number, of Street & Smith’s Sport Story Magazine. Bill also designed our ERBFest logo.
A limited edition of thirty-six numbered and signed prints, designed by artist and pulp enthusiast David Saunders, serves as the Munsey Award. The print was produced by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press.
You’ll find our complete schedule for Saturday, August 5, below. You can also access our schedule via your mobile phone or tablet, by visiting pulpfest.com/schedule/.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Dealers’ Room
9:30 am – 4:45 pm — Dealers’ Room Open to All PulpFest Members
9:30 am – 1:30 pm — Submit Your Auction Items (open to all PulpFest members)
Afternoon Programming
2:00 pm – 2:55 pm — ERBFest — 100 Years of The Moon Maid (Christopher Paul Carey, Henry G. Franke III, and Garyn Roberts)
3:00 pm – 3:55 pm — 90 Years of Pulp Heroes — Doc Savage and His Offspring (Win Scott Eckert, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, and Gary Phillips, with Jennifer DiGiacomo)
Art Show
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – ERBFest — Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs (hosted by Henry G. Franke III)
Auction Preview
3:30 pm – 4:40 pm — Auction Preview (in auction set-up rooms)
Evening Programming
7:00 pm – 7:45 pm — The Centennial of the Sports Pulp — Sport Story Magazine and Its Pulp Offspring (Michelle Nolan)
7:50 pm – 8:00 pm — 2023 Munsey Award Presentation — Presented by Walker Martin
8:05 pm – 8:45 pm — Auction Preview (in auction set-up rooms)
8:50 pm – 8:55 pm— Raffle Drawing — ERB Books’ At the Earth’s Core
9:00 pm – 11:30 pm — PulpFest 2023 Auction (John Gunnison & Joe Saine, auctioneers)
11:30 pm – ?? — Fraternize at FarmerCon — Socialize at Ember & Vine
