PulpFest is not only lauded for its fine programming but also for its very substantial dealers’ room.
Beginning on Thursday, August 1, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry will be home to thousands of collectible pulp magazines and digests, vintage paperbacks, first-edition hardcovers and series books, original art, genre fiction, B-movies and serials, collectible comic books, and much more.
What dealers are we expecting at PulpFest 2024? In our posts this week, we’ll be profiling our 77 dealers, telling you a little bit about each of them.
From 1982 – 85, Jennifer DiGiacomo was the editor and publisher of The Savage Society of Bronze, a Doc Savage fanzine. A resident of New York City, this will be Jennifer’s fourth consecutive year as a PulpFest dealer. Swing by her table in the dealers’ room to peruse a few odds and ends from her personal collection and items recently acquired from Link Hullar and Shelby Peck’s family. Over the last few years, Jennifer has been a popular presenter at PulpFest.
Christopher Paul Carey, Vice President of Publishing, and Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Vice President of Operations, will be representing Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. at PulpFest 2024. They’ll have all the latest publications from the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™ to the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library™ to everything in between. In addition to selling in our dealers’ room, Chris and Cathy will be hosting a panel on “The Universe According to Edgar Rice Burroughs” on Friday, August 2. You can not only expect news about John Carter of Mars: The Audio Series — forthcoming from Pocket Universe Productions — but also some special guests.
Two of the organizers of the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton will have a wide selection of general fiction, science-fiction, adventure, and other pulps to offer. They’ll also have original art and other collectibles at this year’s PulpFest. Stop by their tables and you’re bound to find something that you can’t do without!
Will Emmons Books is a new, Kentucky-based bookseller specializing in vintage science fiction and fantasy paperbacks, digest-sized magazines, and other treasures. A regular attendee at PulpFest and FarmerCon since 2016. Will is a co-founder and contributor to FarmerFan and publishes a regular newsletter once or twice a week reviewing vintage science fiction and fantasy at williamemmonsbooks.com. Please welcome Will to his first PulpFest as a dealer. He’ll have a nice selection of fun and affordable items.
Henry G Franke III, the editor of The Burroughs Bulletin and The Gridley Wave, and co-host of ERBFest 2024, will have a table in our registration area dedicated to this year’s salute to Edgar Rice Burroughs. Henry will have information about the author and his work, and updates about the 2024 Dum-Dum Banquet, an event that he is co-hosting with local Burroughs enthusiast Jason Scott Aiken. You can also visit the ERBFest table for a free copy of this year’s ERBFest program book.
To celebrate the centennial of the hardcover edition of Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot — published on June 14, 1924 — and the 50th anniversary of the film of the same title — directed by Kevin Connor — Henry is selling illustrated envelopes canceled by the Dinosaur Post Office in Colorado on 14 June of this year. A limited number of envelopes are signed by Kevin Connor. Can’t find Henry’s table? Look for the ERBFest 2024 banner.
Robin & Brendan Faulkner have been in the popular culture business since the 1960s. Located in Danbury, Connecticut, R & B Enterprises will have a wide selection of pulps, vintage magazines, classic movie and television DVDs, paperbacks, hardcovers, and related material at this year’s PulpFest. Please visit their website to learn more about what they have to offer.
Flinch! Books was founded in 2015 by two Ohio-based writers. Since their initial foray into the world of independent publishing — Something Strange is Going On!: New Tales From the Fletcher Hanks Universe — co-publishers Jim Beard and John C. Bruening have followed with more wide-ranging anthologies, as well as full-length novels showcasing their own creations — Beard’s Sgt. Janus and Bruening’s Midnight Guardian. Their latest offering is Quest for the Delphi Oculus, the second book in The Chronicles of Conrad von Honig, a series about ancient aliens by Brian K. Morris.
PulpFest wants to welcome back Larry “Doc” Grubb to the convention. We’re very happy to have him with us. A collector since the 1960s and a great guy, Doc will have many first-edition works and a variety of pulp magazines, all at great prices. Larry hails from Maryland.
George Hagenauer returns to PulpFest as a dealer in 2023. George has written the occasional trading card set and comics; been a columnist for the Comics Buyer’s Guide; and authored articles related to pulps and art. He co-wrote with Max Allan Collins The History of Mystery and Taschen’s award-winning Men’s Adventure Magazines. For 40 years, George also helped with the historical background for Collins’ historical mysteries. He also put together an exhibit telling the history of the American mystery genre through original art and was part of the team that started and ran the Chicago Comicon for its first incarnation. At the urging of his family George is doing his estate sale while still alive and will be bringing original art and anything else of interest to PulpFest 2024. Send him suggestions for what to bring via his Comicartfans Gallery.
Scouring flea markets and antique shows up and down the East Coast, Rick Hall rescues pulps from the bottoms of musty old boxes for the collections of his fellows in the pulp community. Focusing primarily on pulp magazines, Rick adds fanzines and general magazines with “good authors” to the mix. You may find just what you’ve been looking for among Rick’s “found” treasures. Helping to man Rick’s table in 2024 will be Curt Phillips, a regular PulpFest attendee. Curt will have several nice hero and science fiction pulps in this year’s PulpFest auction.
Scott Hartshorn is an outgoing, Florida-based collector and dealer. He will be offering a selection of pulps, books by Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, mystery and detective paperbacks, and science-fiction, fantasy, and pulp art. Scott is also planning to have a few collectible surprises as he returns to Pittsburgh for another PulpFest.
Richard Meli, Tracy Fleming, and Amanda Peebles will be representing Heartwood Books & Art at this year’s PulpFest. Heartwood is a member of the ABAA with over 25 years of experience in buying and selling vintage pulps, first editions, magazines, paperbacks, and other collectibles. Heartwood has more than 100,000 items available for sale, including the Robert Weinberg collection of rare pulps, digests, paperbacks, and related ephemera, the Napa Valley collection of men’s adventure magazines, the Barry Levin collection, world-class Edgar Rice Burroughs material, and one-of-a-kind Weird Tales, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft gems.
Paul Herman is a dealer and collector based in Connecticut who exhibits at many pulp and paperback conventions. He offers a wide variety of materials including pulps, paperbacks, and vintage digests. He is very strong in the mystery and detective fields, turning up many scarce items. You can also find Fiction House pulps among his regular stock. Be sure to drop by Paul’s tables for a top-notch deal on some of the best collectibles around.
Doug Sims — who owns Heroes and Games, a comic book and collectible games store located at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio — is back as a PulpFest 2024 dealer. According to Doug, PulpFest is “Always one of my favorite cons to attend!” He will have copies of our favorite pulp heroes in the paperback and softcover formats, Golden, Silver, and Bronze age comics, pulp-related games, and more.
Hailing from Ohio, Mark Hickman will be offering a variety of science-fiction magazines and hero pulps, as well as comic books and original artwork from the pulps, comics, digests, and paperbacks. Mark will also be selling copies of The Collected Pulp Era, a two-volume set reprinting the complete run of his father Lynn Hickman’s classic pulp fanzine. Both volumes are very highly recommended.
If you would like to register as a dealer at this year’s PulpFest, we’ve run out of tables. Please contact Jack Cullers to be added to our waiting list. You can reach him at jack@pulpfest.com.
To wander through our dealers’ room, click the registration button at the top of this page to join PulpFest.
If you’re from outside the area, don’t forget to book a room. Unfortunately, all the rooms in the PulpFest block at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania have been taken. So the special convention rate is no longer available. Click here for a look at other hotels in the area.
We’ll be profiling more of our PulpFest 2024 dealers through Friday, July 12. Please visit our site on Wednesday, July 10, for our next segment.
In addition to our packed dealers’ room, PulpFest is known for its terrific programming. Our featured image is excerpted from Joe Jusko’s “The Land That Time Forgot” cover art used on the omnibus volume, Savage Epics, published in 2023 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Our lead image was adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin from Modest Stein’s cover for the April 4, 1914 issue of All-Story Weekly, illustrating the ERB story, “At the Earth’s Core.” Bill Lampkin also designed the ERBFest 2024 banner, featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs reading the first hardcover edition of The Land That Time Forgot.
Norman Bean is an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan who joined the staff of volunteer writers for our website in August 2023. His most recent post for us was “Pulp Paleontology,” one of our ERBFest 2024 presentations. We look forward to more contributions from Norman in the years ahead.
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