PulpFest 2024 is drawing to a close, but there is still time to get in on the action. With most of our dealers getting ready to head for home, admission is free to all. However, buying opportunities will be extremely limited as the vast majority of our dealers will be packing up their displays.
Although there are no programming events scheduled for Sunday, our dealers’ room will be open from 9 am until 1 pm. Located in the Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, 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.
If you have not been able to attend PulpFest in 2024, start making your plans right now to join next year’s gathering. As always, expect a terrific dealers’ room and superb programming.
Please join us from August 7 – 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for a salute to three “Masters of Blood and Thunder!” We’ll be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the births of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rafael Sabatini, and Edgar Wallace.
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Many thanks to all of you who attended this year’s convention. We hope that you enjoyed yourself and plan to return next year for PulpFest 2025. Please bring your friends!
Your PulpFest Organizing Committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, &, Craig McDonald.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Clinton Pettee’s cover for the October 1912 issue of The All-Story, illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel, “Tarzan of the Apes,” printed in its entirety. We’ll be saluting no less than three “Masters of Blood and Thunder” — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rafael Sabatini, and Edgar Wallace on the 150th anniversary of their births.
We’ll also be celebrating the great pulp villains. Ninety years ago, Dell Magazines released the first of a new kind of pulp, featuring a villain as the lead character. The first issue of Doctor Death was dated February 1935, with cover by Rudolph Zirm. About six months later, Popular Publications would debut The Mysterious Wu Fang, another arch-villain. Others would follow. An excerpt from Zirm’s first cover for Doctor Death is our featured image.
