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 looks at “Tarzan: Lord of the Merchandising Jungle” or the “Masters of Villainy.”
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 53 years.
Thanks to the generosity of our dealers, PulpFest will celebrate its 53rd summertime convention with our fifth annual pizza party. Starting at 5 pm on Thursday, August 7, 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 fifth annual PulpFest pizza night a tremendous success:
Rommin Adl, Chris and David Kalb of Age of Aces Books, Mark Alvarado, Brian Bellanger of Bellanger Books, Robert Mendenhall of Blue Planet Press, Brenner’s Collectable Books, The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Christopher Paul Carey of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Wayne Carey, Mike Chomko, Scott Cranford, Ray Walsh of the Curious Book Shop, Scott & Linda Edwards of Dearly Departed Books, Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton, Jim Beard & John Bruening of Flinch! Books, Henry G. Franke III and ERBFest 2025, Allan Liska & Green Archer Comics, George Hagenauer, Heartwood Books & Art, Brad Heisler of Second Rodeo Games, Heritage Auctions, John W. Knott Bookseller, Tim Klupin of Koops Comics, Michael & Tracy Kowal, Duane Laflin, Bill Lampkin and ThePulp.Net, Craig McDonald, Bob McGeeney, John McMahan, Peter Macuga, Emanuel Maris, Tom Martin, William Patrick Maynard, Terry Meister, Bob Deis & Bill Cunningham of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Meteor House, Brian K. Morris, Joseph Nelson of Point of Impact Publishing, Todd McDevitt & New Dimensions Comics, Mike Parsons, Tim Paxton of Tim’s Books, Brandon Purvis of The Book Rapport, Garyn & Virginia Roberts, Rick Santman, Darrell Schweitzer, Tim King & The Shadowed Circle, Doug Simms & Heroes & Games, Steven Spilger, Michael Stradford, Terry’s Old School Comics, Bill Trible, Sheila Vanderbeek, We Are Doc Sausage: A Documentary on Pizza Pandom, Chris Maffei of Well-Stacked Books, Mark & Carol Wheatley, Richard C. White, John Wooley, and Derek Woywood, plus a few dealers who wish to remain anonymous.
In addition to helping with the pizza, New Dimensions Comics, Pittsburgh’s largest retail seller of comics, games, and collectibles, is offering a 10% discount to PulpFest 2025 members from August 7 – 10. Just show your PulpFest badge to the staff when you’re checking out. With six stores in the area, New Dimension’s closest location is just 2.5 miles from the DoubleTree at 20550 Route 19 in Cranberry Township.
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. If you have trouble finding a room at the DoubleTree, our host hotel, click here for what else is available nearby.
The PulpFest pizza party is strictly informal. So come as you are, although we’d prefer that you leave your knives, pistols, and cutlasses at home, unlike the bloaks storming a ship in Ray Dean’s cover for the January 15, 1935 issue of Adventure, our featured image.
Neither are you required to dress to the nines as the pirate arrayed in his finest silks and jewels in H. C. Murphy’s cover for the September 20, 1923 number of Adventure, our lead image. Once again, please leave all cutlasses and rapiers behind.
If you really want to shine while dining on our pizza, click the link in our top menu and order a PulpFest t-shirt. They’re available in a variety of sizes in black or royal blue with the PulpFest logo across the chest. They’ll also be available for sale at PulpFest 2025.
To learn more about dressing like a pirate, check out our YouTube Channel.
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