Bring on the fireworks! It’s time to celebrate our nation’s freedom. What better time for PulpFest to say thanks for all of the donations that we have received? They’re all for our members. The only requirement is to be at PulpFest 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry between August 1 and August 4.
When you arrive at PulpFest 2024, one of the first things you’ll see will be this year’s welcome banner. We want to thank ThePulp.Net for sponsoring this year’s banner.
We also want to thank Gordon Van Gelder and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction — 75 years old this year — for sending PulpFest 100+ back issues. These will be handed out by our registration staff while supplies last. The award-winning magazine has supported us for decades! We’re extremely grateful for the long-standing support of F&SF.
David Spurlock of Vanguard Publishing has very generously donated 300 copies of Loveboy: An Irwin Hasen Story. A risqué, romantic escapade story of a very short, blue-eyed, confirmed bachelor, who adores tall, voluptuous women, this graphic novel by the award-winning Dondi cartoonist segues into an entertaining biography of the noted cartoonist. Hasen’s career spans from the birth of the comic book to work for DC, All-American, Sheldon Mayer, and M. C. Gaines. We want to thank David and Vanguard for their donation.
We’re also grateful to Curt Phillips, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Meteor House, Mike Chomko, Books, and Steeger Books for also helping with this year’s door prizes. We’ll be handing them out during our 2024 programming.
To help celebrate the centennial of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot, Jim Gerlach of ERB Books has donated one of his fantastic collector’s editions to PulpFest 2024. We’ll be raffling off The Centennial Edition of The Moon Maid at this year’s convention and The Standard First Edition of Robert B. Zeuschner’s Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography.
Authorized by and published under the imprint of ERB Inc. of Tarzana, California, the eighth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection and the Zeuschner bibliography will be raffled off on Saturday evening, August 3, at 7:30 pm. Tickets will be available at the PulpFest 2024 registration desk for $5. You don’t need to be present at the drawing to win.
Many thanks to Jess Terrell and the For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs Facebook group for their continuing sponsorship of pulpfest.com. It’s a tremendous way to help us with our celebration of the pulp writers, editors, publishers, and artists who continue to inspire contemporary creators of the world’s popular culture.
The same goes for Heritage Auctions who signed on as a sponsor of our website earlier this year. Be sure to check out their Original Illustration Art auction on August 8, just a few days after the conclusion of PulpFest 2024.
Also helping to sponsor pulpfest.com are ERB Books, Mike Chomko, Books, and ThePulp.Net, your link to the online world of pulp magazines since 1996!
We also want to thank the Pittsburgh area bookstores and comic shops that have helped to promote this summer’s pulp con. Special thanks to Steve Ericson of Books from the Crypt, Ron Adams of Creepy Classics and Monster Bash, Alex Daoundakis, Jeff Harper Productions, Todd McDevitt of New Dimension Comics, and Jesse Noble of Gem City Comic Con for their tremendous help.
A big shout-out to the Caliban Book Shop. They’ve been helping to promote PulpFest ever since the convention relocated to the Pittsburgh area. Located at 410 South Craig Street near the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh, Caliban Book Shop buys and sells used and rare books for readers and collectors. They’re particularly strong in vintage paperbacks, with a basement full of paperback fiction, mysteries, and science fiction, all priced way below retail. Visit their Instagram page for a peak at some of their pulpwood pickings, including their “Cowboy Corner.”
If you would like to register as a dealer at this year’s PulpFest, we’ve run out of tables. Please get in touch with Jack Cullers ASAP to be added to our waiting list. You can reach him at jassways@woh.rr.com or jack@pulpfest.com.
If you are not from the Pittsburgh area and have yet to book your room for this year’s PulpFest, the convention’s block at the DoubleTree has been completely filled. Click here for other options.
Thanks so much to everyone who has reserved a room at our host hotel. By staying at the DoubleTree, you’ve helped to ensure the convention’s success.
Our featured image is excerpted from John Newton Howitt’s cover for the August/September 1936 issue of Operator #5, published by Popular Publications. The magazine had its hero “save the United States from total destruction in every story, every month” and fairly oozed with patriotism.
Our lead image is the May/June 1939 number of Operator #5, with cover by John Newton Howitt. We’ll be celebrating Jimmy Christopher, Operator #5, and some of the other great spy heroes of the pulps at this year’s PulpFest.
The ERB Books Centennial Edition of The Moon Maid features a total of 100 illustrations from over 20 different artists past and present and contain 20+ tipped-in color plates, 30+ full-page black and white illustrations, and 40+ spot black and white illustrations. Included among the illustrations is “Pulp Selene,” drawn by PulpFest 2024 presenter Mark Schultz.
Emile C. Tepperman, IV has been writing occasionally for our website since 2017. He is purportedly the great-grandson of Operator #5 author Emile Clemens Tepperman.
To learn more about Operator #5, visit our YouTube Channel for Craig McDonald’s segment on the character.
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