As of early July, the PulpFest 2025 Auction had just over 200 lots of material that will be up for bid. All of the lots submitted have been cataloged, photographed, and uploaded to our auction page. You’ll find our photographic catalog by clicking the “2025 Auction” button located on the top menu of our website.
If you’d like to submit any material to the PulpFest 2025 Auction, you are encouraged to submit your lots before the start of the convention. This will allow PulpFest to list your lots — including photographs and descriptions — on our online auction page. Online bids will be accepted for all lots that have been submitted by 11:59 pm on Sunday, July 6, 2025. Any material submitted after that date will not be added to the online bidding page.
Lots submitted after July 6 will only be available to bidders who are physically present at the PulpFest 2025 auction. Items listed online often receive higher bids than those auction lots listed at the last minute.
Consigning to the PulpFest 2025 Auction
PulpFest welcomes large and small collections, from a single item to thousands of books, pulps, comics, digests, fanzines, and related collectibles. If you’re ready to sell that collection, consider using the PulpFest auction. You don’t have to be a member of the convention to participate. If what you have is somehow related to pulp magazines and related pop culture collectibles, we’re interested!
All auction lots must have a value of $20 or more. The convention will charge a 16% commission based on the selling price for anything sold in the auction. For example, if an item sells for $100, the seller will receive $84.
To minimize the submission of what most people term “junk” to our auction, PulpFest will charge $5 for those auction lots that receive no bids.
PulpFest reserves the right to reject any material that does not meet our standards. Sexually explicit material — including Playboy, Penthouse, and Oui — cannot be submitted to the auction.
PulpFest will accept materials submitted by PulpFest 2025 attendees up through 1 p.m. on the day of the auction. These will be sold following the early submissions.
Please write to PulpFest auction coordinator, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104 if you have any questions about placing material into the next PulpFest auction. The PulpFest 2025 auction is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
Online Bidding
For those who cannot attend PulpFest 2025, the convention will accept bids placed through the PulpFest Auction Online Bidding Page. We began accepting online bids for each currently cataloged auction lot in our 2025 auction on June 4, 2025.
Online bidders will be asked to provide contact information, payment method, and their final bids for each auction lot. You can submit bids for multiple lots on the same form by clicking the “+” button on our online bidding page. All information submitted will be kept confidential.
Online bids that are less than $10 will not be accepted. The deadline to place online bids is 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, August 3. Afterwards, the PulpFest Auction Online Bidding Page will be shut down.
PulpFest will bid for those who place their bids through the PulpFest Auction Online Bidding Page. We will start with the auctioneer’s opening bid and will continue bidding for the highest online bidder until their final bid price is reached. If no bid placed during the live auction is more than the online bid, the online bidder will win the lot.
Please note that PulpFest does not charge a buyer’s premium.
We’ll be updating our PulpFest 2025 Online Auction Catalog through Sunday, July 6, 2025. Any material submitted after that date will not be added to the online bidding page. Lots submitted after July 6 will only be available to bidders who are physically present at the PulpFest 2025 auction.
The deadline to place online bids is 9 p.m. Eastern on August 3.
Write to PulpFest auction coordinator, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104 if you have any questions about placing material or bidding in the next PulpFest auction.
The PulpFest 2025 auction is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. on Saturday, August 9, 2025.
Derek Starr is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began contributing to our website in 2022. He particularly enjoys the Fiction House pulps. One of his favorites is Planet Stories, the publisher’s legendary science fiction pulp. He’s also a fan of their air pulps and Action Stories.
Our featured image is excerpted from Rafael DeSoto’s cover art for the January 1934 issue of Ned Pines’s The Phantom Detective, published by Standard Magazines. PulpFest advertising director, William Lampkin, adapted this image for the PulpFest auction banner, utilized at the convention.
Our lead image is John Philip Falter’s cover for The Saturday Evening Post, dated August 5, 1944. Born in 1910, Falter painted 129 covers for the popular magazine, as well as book illustrations, magazine ads, and a great deal more.
Our final image is the front cover to the first issue of Fantastic, dated Summer 1952, featuring the work of Barye Phillips and Leo R. Summers. A VG+ to near fine copy of the first issue of Fantastic and a VG+ copy of the third issue are featured in lot #156 of our 2025 auction.
