PulpFest is more than a dealers’ room filled with tens of thousands of collectible items from pulp magazines to first-edition hardcovers to original art and more.
Nor is it several evenings of fantastic presentations such as our look at “America’s Secret Service Ace” or “The Spicy Artists.”
PulpFest is people — readers, collectors, and dealers who love popular fiction and art. People who realize that the pulps profoundly impacted American popular culture. Thanks to all of you — dealers and members alike — PulpFest is still alive and kicking after 52 years.
Thanks to the generosity of our dealers, PulpFest will celebrate its 52nd summertime convention with our fourth annual pizza party. Starting at 5 pm on Thursday, August 1, we’ll have cheese, pepperoni, and margherita pizzas, baked to perfection in the hotel’s wood-fired ovens. The pizzas are on us, but the drinks are on you!
Thursday’s pizza will not only be a celebration of PulpFest‘s opening night, but it will also provide an opportunity to support our host hotel. Please come and enjoy a slice or two in the lounge, but be sure to support the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry by purchasing something to quench your thirst.
And be sure to support and thank the following dealers for their generous contributions to make our fourth annual PulpFest pizza night a tremendous success:
John and Maureen Gunnison of Adventure House, Chris and David Kalb of Age of Aces Books, Mark Alvarado, Brenner’s Collectable Books, The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Nick Certo, Ron Chandler, Ray Walsh of Curious Book Shop, Jennifer DiGiacomo, Christopher Paul Carey of ERB, Inc., Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton, Henry G. Franke III and ERBFest 2024, Flinch! Books, George Hagenauer, Richard Paul Hall, Heartwood Books & Art, Mark Hickman, John W. Knott Bookseller, Koops Comics, Michael & Tracy Kowal, Bill Lampkin and ThePulp.Net, Bob McGeeney, John McMahan, Peter Macuga, Emanuel Maris, Tom Martin, Terry Meister, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, Charles F. Millhouse, Brian K. Morris, Phil Nelson, Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle of New Texture, Mike Parsons, Jackie Pollen, Garyn & Virginia Roberts, Rick Santman, Darrell Schweitzer, Steven Spilger, Ronn Sutton, Terry’s Old School Comics, Tim Paxton of Tim’s Books, Todd & Ross Warren, Mark & Carol Wheatley, MarQuise Liddle of Wild Isle Literature, Will Emmons Books, John Wooley, and Larry Hallock of Ygor’s Books.
To enjoy our dealers’ room (and pizza party), click the “registration” button at the top of this page. And don’t forget to book a hotel room. Unfortunately, it’s too late to get a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry at the PulpFest 2024 rate. If you can’t find a room, the DoubleTree recommends 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.
The PulpFest pizza party is strictly informal. So come as you are, although we’d prefer that you leave your axes, pitchforks, and scythes at home. And don’t even think about inviting The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, depicted in our featured image by John Newton Howitt, created for the December 1934 issue of Operator #5, published by Popular Publications.
Neither are you required to dress to the nines as the couple in Leo Morey’s cover for the September 1939 number of Secret Agent X, our lead image. Once again, please leave all knives, scimitars, and firearms behind.
For more on Secret Agent X, check out our YouTube Channel.
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