Year after year, there are countless individuals and organizations that help to make PulpFest such a great event. The PulpFest organizing committee wants to thank everyone for their invaluable assistance in helping to make PulpFest 2024 a success. We could not have done it without you:
Our front desk staff – Marge Coiner, Sally Cullers, Samantha and Eli Cullers, Jack Cullers, and Regie Powell.
Our panelists and presenters – Jim Beard, John C. Bruening, Christopher Paul Carey, Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Bob Deis, Wyatt Doyle, Win Scott Eckert, Joe Ferrante, John Gunnison, Ron Hill, Morgan Holmes, Keith Howell, Ed Hulse, Bernice Jones, Tim King, Douglas C. Klauba, Tom Krabacher, Sean Lee Levin, Craig McDonald, John McMahan, Walker Martin, Will Murray, David Saunders, Mark Schultz, Kurt Shoemaker, Doug Simms, Paul Spiteri, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Peter Wolson, and John Wooley.
A big thank you to Henry G. Franke III for co-hosting the 2024 ERBFest and to both Henry and Jason Aiken for hosting the 2024 Dum-Dum Banquet for The Burroughs Bibliophiles. It took place on the evening of August 3, just a short distance from our host hotel. Also, thanks to the Meteor House crew for their help with this year’s Farmercon.
Many thanks to Mike Chomko for the time he devoted to assembling this year’s auction. Also, a big thank you to David and Regie Powell, as well as Jack Cullers, for their work before, during, and after our PulpFest 2024 auction. Thanks also to our auctioneer, John Gunnison, and our auction staff, Marge Coiner, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, and Regie Powell.
We want to thank our technical staff – William Lampkin – and our behind-the-scenes help – David Saunders and Dan Zimmer. We’d certainly be remiss if we forgot to mention our contributors to pulpfest.com — Norman Bean, Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Kenneth Grant, Jeanne Harding, William Lampkin, Craig McDonald, Leslie Silberberg, Derek Starr, and Emile C. Tepperman, IV. Additionally, we also received letters from Munsey Award winner Richard Bleiler and Hollywood detective Dan Turner that we posted to our website.
Thanks must be extended to Kate Knecht, Erin Nelson, Kristin Winkler, and the rest of the terrific staff at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry. Also, thanks to Laurie Mann of Confluence and Clean Air Tools Pittsburgh for the three air purifiers that were used in our auction preview rooms to help guard against the spread of airborne viruses.
The organizing committee would also like to thank the people who helped to create The Pulpster #33 – editor William Lampkin, assistant editor Peter Chomko, publisher Mike Chomko, Minuteman Press Kettering, plus contributors Kurt Brokaw, John C. Bruening, Michael Chomko, Tony Davis, Henry G. Franke III, Ed Hulse, Alfred Jan, William Lampkin, Will Murray, and Jess Terrell. Many thanks also go out to the magazine’s advertisers – Cleveland ConCoction, Columbus Moving Picture Show, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Fantasy Illustrated, Guy Worthey, Heartwood Books & Art, Heritage Auctions, Jerry J. C. Veit, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Meteor House, Michael Chomko Books, New Texture and the Men’s Adventure Library, Paperback Parade, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, Peerbid Auctions, The Shadowed Circle, Stark House Press, ThePulp.Net, Vanguard Publishing, We Are Doc Savage, Weird Tales, Inc., Well-Stacked Books, and the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention.
A special thank you to ThePulp.Net for sponsoring our PulpFest 2024 welcome banner.
Many thanks to the nominators and the Lamont Award, Munsey Award, and Rusty Hevelin Service Award winners who helped to select the winner of this year’s Munsey, Gene Christie. Congratulations to Gene and all of the nominees for our 2024 award. Thank you to 2010 Munsey Award winner Mike Chomko for presenting this year’s award.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for the books and other materials that were donated to PulpFest for distribution to our members or to serve as door prizes: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Gordon Van Gelder and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Meteor House, Mike Chomko, Books, Curt Phillips, Matt Moring and Steeger Books, and David Spurlock and Vanguard Publications.
We would also like to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for loaning the convention their sound system. Thanks also to our website sponsors, Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Jess Terrell and the For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heritage Auctions, Mike Chomko Books, and ThePulp.Net.
Thanks must also be extended to John and Maureen Gunnison of Adventure House, Chris and David Kalb of Age of Aces Books, Mark Alvarado, Jim Beard of Becky Books, 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, John C. Bruening of 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, Bill Trible, Todd & Ross Warren, Mark & Carol Wheatley, MarQuise Liddle of Wild Isle Literature, Will Emmons Books, John Wooley, and Larry Hallock of Ygor’s Books for sponsoring this year’s pizza night at the DoubleTree.
Many thanks to Jack Cullers, Alex Daoundakis, Steve Ericson, Jeff Harper, Todd McDevitt of New Dimension Comics, Craig McDonald, Jesse Noble of Gem City, Doug Simms of Heroes and Games, and the conventions, bookstores, comic and collectible shops that helped to promote our show by distributing and displaying our advertising materials. We should also mention the websites, newspapers, and other media outlets that promoted PulpFest throughout the Pittsburgh area, in particular Fine Books and Collections, Pittsburgh City Paper, and Littsburgh: Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh.
Finally, thank you to the dealers, attending members, and supporting members of PulpFest 2024. It was due to your encouragement and support that our convention was successful. Our final attendance stood at 436 members, more than fifty members above our previous high.
We hope to see all of you in the coming year — along with a good many newcomers — for PulpFest 2025. We’ll be saluting three “Masters of Blood and Thunder!” on the 150th anniversary of their births — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rafael Sabatini, and Edgar Wallace — and more at PulpFest 2025.
Please join us from August 7 – 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for PulpFest 2025.
If we’ve neglected anyone, please accept our apology and our gratitude. Write to Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com and the oversight will be corrected.
Our “Spice, Spies, Shaw, and More” image was adapted by William Lampkin from H. J. Ward’s original cover art for the May 1935 issue of Spicy-Adventure Stories. Our “Masters of Blood and Thunder” image was also 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.
Leslie Silberberg is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began posting on our website in 2022. She enjoys the science fiction pulps, particularly the work of such leading female writers as Leigh Brackett, Claire Winger Harris, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, C. L. Moore, Margaret St. Clair, Wilmar H. Shiras, Francis Stevens, and Leslie F. Stone. We look forward to more contributions from Leslie in the years ahead.
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