If you’re a dealer who specializes in pulp magazines, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, series books, first edition hardcovers, original art, dime novels, men’s adventure, true crime, digest, or slick magazines, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials, and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, or Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age comic books, then PulpFest is for you.
PulpFest, however, is not only a terrific venue to sell vintage material. It’s also a great place to market science fiction, mystery and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, and more. The people who attend our convention love genre fiction and art, old and new.
Publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, Murania Press, and New Texture do well selling their pulp reprints and related materials at PulpFest. So do resellers such as Mike Chomko, Books. Contemporary authors and publishers such as John Bruening, Will Murray, Joab Stieglitz, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Meteor House have likewise found PulpFest to be a great event for selling their contemporary and classic genre fiction. After all, our afternoon programming centers around contemporary genre fiction and art.
Our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry is quite large. It accommodates about 150 six-foot tables. Island tables cost $100, while wall tables are $110. All dealers and their helpers are also required to purchase full weekend memberships. Advance memberships cost $40 if staying at the DoubleTree and $50 if staying elsewhere.
There are still plenty of island tables available for our 2024 convention. However, all or most of our wall tables have already been reserved. If you would like to be considered for a wall table, please mention it on your registration form. You will be added to a waitlist for wall tables and charged for the price difference at the convention if any become available.
You can click here to download the convention’s 2024 registration form. For additional registration information, please click the “registration” button at the top of our website. Although wall tables are still listed on our registration form, all or most of them have been reserved. Please write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com for further details.
As we have for the last two years, we will allow early-arriving dealers to begin setting up on Wednesday evening, July 31, from about 5:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Absolutely no one who is not a dealer or dealer’s helper will be allowed into the dealers’ room during this time. No buying, selling, or trading will be permitted. This time is meant to be used for set-up alone.
Dealers will also be able to set up on Thursday, August 1, starting at 9 a.m.
Our dealers’ room will be open daily from 9 am until 4:45 pm from August 1 – 3. It will also be open on Sunday, August 4, from 9 am until 1 pm. If they desire, dealers may begin packing up as soon as the room opens on Sunday.
All dealers will also be able to submit material to our Saturday Night Auction. Click here to learn more about our 2024 auction.
The convention will be promoted through Internet advertising and postcard giveaways at bookstores and comic shops, collectibles and pop culture conventions, and other venues. PulpFest will also be advertising in Alter Ego, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Paperback Parade, and other publications, including a few convention program books. We’ll also be listed on convention calendars such as Fancons.com and Upcoming Cons as well as the event calendars at Pittsburgh City Paper, Positively Pittsburgh, and other local websites.
In early July, we’ll be posting about all of the dealers who will be selling at PulpFest 2024. Our marketing and programming director, Mike Chomko, will be putting these posts together and releasing them through our homepage and social media sites.
We recommend booking your hotel room as soon as possible. Last year, the hotel sold out six weeks before the start of the convention.
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree, please click 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 or use the code CDT91J to receive the special convention rate of $136 plus tax per night.
Two complimentary breakfast coupons are included in our hotel’s nightly rate as well as free wifi and parking. Rest assured, PulpFest is very appreciative of all the dealers who help to reduce the convention’s substantial costs by staying at the DoubleTree and supporting our host hotel.
So what are you waiting for? Start planning now to attend PulpFest 2024 as a dealer and sell to hundreds of readers and collectors at the pop-culture center of the universe!
We look forward to seeing you from August 1 – 4 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just nineteen miles north of Pittsburgh in Mars, Pennsylvania. Please join us at PulpFest 2024 — “Summer’s Amazing Pulp Con” — where your sales will simply be Fantastic!
For more information about becoming a PulpFest dealer, 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 2024 newsletter with further details about the convention when they are available in April.
Our PulpFest 2024 web card has been adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from Norman Saunders’ original cover painting for the June 1938 number of Secret Agent X, published by Aaron Wyn’s Periodical House (better known as Ace Magazines). Our featured image, painted by H. J. Ward, was adapted from the August 1936 issue of Culture Publications’ Spicy-Adventure Stories. We’ll be celebrating “Spice, Spies, Shaw, and More” at PulpFest 2024. Learn more by clicking our schedule button.
The back of our PulpFest 2024 postcard was adapted by William Lampkin from John Newton Howitt’s cover art for the October/November 1936 issue of Operator #5. Courtesy of Steeger Books.
Please join us August 1 – 4 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry for PulpFest 2024, celebrating 52 years of summertime pulp cons.
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Kenneth Grant is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began writing for our website in 2022. He particularly enjoys the hero pulps. He most recently wrote about Ace Magazines’ Secret Agent X and Pete Rice Magazine for pulpfest.com.
