PulpFest 2024 enters its second day, following a successful dealer set-up, early registration, early-bird shopping, and a full slate of programming. If you missed our first day, there’s still more to come at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
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.
The dealers’ room will be open today from 9 am 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!”
For those who have not yet registered for PulpFest 2024, all members — dealers included — will be able to register for the convention from 9 am to 4:45 pm. Registration will take place at the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Watch for our welcome banner, pictured above.
Everyone can pick up their registration packets at this time. 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.
A full weekend membership to PulpFest 2024 will cost $50 at the door for those who have not registered in advance. Daily memberships for Friday or Saturday will be available for $25 per day. Your PulpFest membership also entitles you to membership in both FarmerCon XIX and ERBFest 2024.
Our daytime programming will begin at 12:15 pm with the premier of Ron Hill’s We Are Doc Savage — A Documentary on Fandom. We’ll also have this year’s Flinch! Fest, featuring John C. Bruening & Jim Beard, and “The Universe According to Edgar Rice Burroughs,” part of ERBFest 2024.
Our daily auction preview will run from 3:30 – 4:45 PM. We’ll be selling about 240 lots of material from the estate of the late Charles Danowski and 60 lots consigned by members of the convention. The auction will take place on Saturday, August 3, beginning at 9 pm. The general public is welcome to attend and bid. To learn more or to download an auction catalog, click here.
Our full evening programming slate will begin at 6:55 pm, beginning with The Spice Must Flow! Pulp Spice in Men’s Adventure Magazines, featuring two of the world’s leading men’s adventure magazine experts, Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle. We’ll end our programming tonight with a showing of The People That Time Forgot, the second of our Kevin Connor films at this year’s ERBFest.
Friday evening will close with “Fraternize at FarmerCon“ in the Ember & Vine lounge at the DoubleTree, part of the fun at FarmerCon XIX.
You’ll find our complete schedule for Friday, August 2, below. You can also access our schedule via our homepage by clicking the schedule button on our home page or via your mobile phone or tablet, by visiting pulpfest.com/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 2024, you can try calling 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 welcome banner was designed by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin (who also designed our PulpFest logo), based on H. J. Ward’s front cover for the May 1935 issue of Culture Publications’ Spicy-Adventure Stories. Bill also sponsored the banner through his website, ThePulp.Net. He also adapted our We Are Doc Savage poster from James Bama’s iconic cover art for the Bantam Book edition of Doc Savage #1, The Man of Bronze, 1964.
Our featured image was excerpted from Maurice S. Carter’s movie poster for The People That Time Forgot, directed by Kevin Connor and produced by Britain’s Amicus Productions and American International Pictures. Before its release in 1977, Amicus Productions shut its doors.
Friday, August 2, 2024
Dealers’ Room
9:00 am – 4:45 pm — Dealers’ Room Open to All PulpFest Members
9:30 am – 4:30 pm — Submit Your Auction Items to PulpFest (Dealers’ Room)
Afternoon Programming
12:15 pm – 1:25 pm — We Are Doc Savage — A Documentary on Fandom (Ron Hill)
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm — Flinch! Fest (John C. Bruening & Jim Beard)
2:30 pm – 3:25 pm — ERBFest — The Universe According to Edgar Rice Burroughs (Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Wilbanks, etc.)
Auction Preview
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm — Auction Preview (in Willow & Walnut Rooms)
Evening Programming
6:55 pm – 7:40 pm — The Spice Must Flow! Pulp Spice in Men’s Adventure Magazines (Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle)
7:45 pm – 8:30 pm — Black Mask: The Popular Years (John Wooley, John McMahan, and John Gunnison)
8:35 pm – 9:20 pm — ERBFest — Pulp Paleontology (Mark Schultz and Mike Chomko)
9:25 pm – 10:10 pm — America’s Secret Service Ace (Tom Krabacher and Kurt Shoemaker)
10:15 pm – 11:00 pm — Bob Howard & the Spicy Adventurers (Morgan Holmes)
11:05 pm – 12:40 am — ERBFest Film Showing — The People That Time Forgot
11:05 pm – ?? am — Fraternize at FarmerCon — Socialize at Ember & Vine
