PulpFest is a top venue for writers and publishers to roll out their newest titles. Following are some of the new books that will be featured at this summer’s pulp con.
Age of Aces Books is a publisher of pulp fiction treasures with a keen eye for design. At this year’s PulpFest, Chris and David Kalb will be releasing two thrilling collections from the tattered pages of the air war pulps. The first is a collection of Frank H. Martin’s five stories for Fiction House’s Aces. Martin was one of the publisher’s top contributors of air-war stories. The Kalbs will also have a third collection of Donald E. Keyhoe’s Devildog Squadron’s stories, collected from Sky Birds.
A familiar face at PulpFest, Jim Beard of Becky Books will have several new books at this year’s PulpFest. Check out his webpage for more information on Jack of All Comics! A Fan Conversation About the King of Comics — a new anthology of essays about Jack Kirby and his fabulous creations — and Treble Swift and the Solar Symphony, a space opera in the vein of Captain Future and Doc Smith.
Please welcome Brian Belanger of Belanger Books to his first PulpFest! A publisher, editor, narrator, graphic designer, and actor, Brian specializes in Sherlock Holmes adventures, August Derleth’s pulp detective Solar Pons, the psychic detective tales of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, anthologies set in the worlds of H. G. Wells and H. P. Lovecraft, and more! Brian will debut the 80th anniversary edition of the first Solar Pons adventure, In Re: Sherlock Holmes, and more at this year’s convention. To learn more about Brian and his work, please visit belangerbooks.com.
Robert J. Mendenhall is another PulpFest newcomer. A member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, he writes in the adventure, crime and suspense, science fiction, and, occasionally, horror genres. His latest endeavor is the Code Name: Intrepid pulp-style action and adventure series, published by Blue Planet Press. To learn more, please visit his website RobertJMendenhall.com.
Author Brian Bohnett of Mad Kings Publishing returns to PulpFest after a successful debut in 2024. Be sure to check out Them Was the Days: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the History of the Michigan Military Academy, Tarzan Big Little Books, and The Remarkable Enid Markey: First Lady of the Tarzan Films. Brian is an active member of the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society and The Burroughs Bibliophiles.
It has been a few years since writer Wayne Carey has exhibited at PulpFest. The author of the Johnny Falco adventures from Bold Venture Press, Wayne’s series brings back the thrill of the old pulps. Set in China during the 1930s, the Falco stories include Death Waits in Shanghai, Death Comes to Hong Kong, and The Gold Buddha. Wayne will have these and more — including Allan Quatermain and the Beast Men and Allan Quatermain and the Lightning Bird, his continuation of H. Rider Haggard’s classic series — at this year’s PulpFest.
Mike Chomko Books will be representing Stark House Press at this year’s PulpFest. He’ll have books by Edward Aarons, Wenzell Brown, Bruce Elliott, Robert Martin, Lionel White, and other great noir writers. He’ll also have classic works by E. Phillips Oppenheim and Sax Rohmer at the convention, as well as the latest offerings from Steeger Books. This will include six new volumes in their Black Mask Library, and the revised and expanded edition of Don Hutchison’s The Great Pulp Heroes.
Christopher Paul Carey and Cathy Mann Wilbanks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. will have all the latest publications from the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™ to the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library™ and everything in between at PulpFest 2025. They’ll also have Chris L Adams, the author of Gauntlets of Mars, and Win Scott Eckert, author of Pellucidar: Land of Awful Shadow, the forthcoming sequel to Korak at the Earth’s Core, aboard for this year’s convention.
Although ERB Books won’t physically be at PulpFest 2025, the publisher will be with us in spirit. Thanks to the generosity of publisher Jim Gerlach, we’ll be raffling off a copy of Pirates of Venus — The Illustrators Edition, the first book in the Amtor series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book features over 100 illustrations by a dazzling array of artists, including Daren Bader, Gary Gianni, Thomas Grindberg, Richard Hescox, Michael Kaluta, Doug Klauba, Mark Schultz, Laurence Schwinger, William Stout, Mark Wheatley, and Thomas Yeates.
Tickets will be available at the PulpFest 2025 registration desk for $5. Buy as many as you want. Online orders are also welcome. Just send multiples of $5 via PayPal “as a friend” to mike@pulpfest.com. You don’t need to be present at the drawing to win. Please include your name and address with your order.
If you can’t wait until PulpFest for a chance to win a copy of Pirates of Venus – The Illustrators Edition, you can get $50 off the regular price if you order a copy online at ERB Books. Use the code PV50 when you check out to save fifty bucks.
Ohio-based Flinch! Books will have copies of their recent release by author Jim Beard. Sgt. Janus and the House That Loved Death is the fourth volume in the author’s popular series about an occult detective along the lines of Carnacki the Ghost Finder and other heroes of the supernatural. Also debuting at PulpFest 2025 will be the cover art for John Bruening’s latest adventure of The Midnight Guardian, March of the Giants. Set during the years of The Great Depression, Bruening’s series is evocative of The Shadow, Doc Savage, and other great pulp heroes.
Martin Grams is an American pop culture historian who has written extensively on radio, television, and film. He’s the author of The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television, King Kong: The 1933 Radio Scripts, The Radio Adventures of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, The Shadow: The History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930-1954, and many other titles. Martin will have copies of these and information about his latest book, forthcoming in September. Clayton Moore and The Legend of the Lone Ranger, 1970-1984 is co-authored by Terry Salomonson.
Born on April 1, 1875, Edgar Wallace was the creator of The Just Men, Sanders of the River, The Ringer, Mr. J. G. Reeder, and The Green Archer. So it certainly seems fitting that we welcome author, comic book scriptor, and intelligence analyst Allan Liska and Green Archer Comics to their first PulpFest.
Green Archer Comics is a family-run comic book publisher that has been reviving legends since 2023! They specialize in Golden Age and public domain characters, including Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Edgar Wallace’s The Green Archer; The Press Guardian; The Clock; and, debuting at this year PulpFest, Buck Rogers! Stop by their table and share some memories! And please welcome Green Archer Comics to their first PulpFest.
Brad Heisler of Second Rodeo Games is the creator of Fortune Seekers, a tabletop role-playing game of globetrotting adventure and swashbuckling action where you step into the mud-covered boots of daring treasure hunters and race around the world to uncover rare antiquities lost to time. An independent game designer out of Wilmington, North Carolina, Brad will be releasing Pulp History expansions for Fortune Seekers that will reach into the past to create a series of play-sets based on H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes that will bring the action and adventure of these classic pulps to your table. More pulp expansions are in the works. Please welcome Brad to his first PulpFest.
Ever since he could hold a crayon, Ron Hill has been creating images. Since graduating from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1982, Ron has worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, caricaturist, creative director, author, and business manager. In 2024, Ron debuted We Are Doc Savage: A Documentary on Fandom, a feature-length documentary — 2 years in production — that explores the history of Doc Savage fandom by interviewing dozens of collectors, creators, and characters who are keeping the legacy of The Man of Bronze alive. Ron will be manning the Doc Con XXII tables at PulpFest where he will have DVDs of his great film available for $25.
Duane Laflin is a magician-turned-author. After a career as an internationally known illusionist, performing on five continents, in eighteen countries, and forty-seven of the fifty states, Duane retired to write novels. As a fan of pulp fiction, he drew on his experience as an entertainer to create fast-paced stories with a pulp-style feel — tales featuring action, excitement, fascinating characters, and an international scope. His latest series featuring his version of a Doc Savage/Tarzan-type character – Thomas Adam Gray – offers wild, yet realistic adventures set in modern times. The third volume in the series — The Treasure Whale — and possibly a fourth, will be ready for Pulpfest! Duane will have these, along with his fourteen other novels, on display at the convention. We look forward to hosting Duane Laflin at his first PulpFest.
Award-winning novelist, journalist, and editor Craig McDonald will have the latest volume in his highly entertaining series, The Adventures of Zana O’Savin. A pastiche of classic pulp characters such as Pat & Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger, and the Domino Lady, the O’Savin stories debuted in 2022. He’ll have the fourth book in the series — The Night Shepherd — at this year’s PulpFest. And don’t forget about the first three O’Savin adventures — The Blood Ogre, The Mothman Menace, and The Death Killers — or Craig’s Hector Lassiter books about a Black Mask writer who doubles as Ernest Hemingway’s pal.
Although they won’t debuting any new publications at PulpFest, 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.
So what are you waiting for? Book a room and register now for PulpFest 2025! Your PulpFest membership also includes memberships in DocCon XXI, ERBFest 2025, and Farmercon XX. That’s four conventions for one price, only at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
If you’re having trouble finding a room at our host hotel — rooms are scarce — click here for what else is available nearby.
But wait!!! Also debuting at PulpFest 2025 will be Streetlight Printing’s PulpFest t-shirts. Click the link in our top menu and order one or pick one up at the convention. They’re available in a variety of sizes in black or royal blue with the PulpFest logo across the chest.
Norman Bean is an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan who joined our staff of volunteer post-writers in August 2023. Norm has written about conventions, “pulp paleontology,” our dealers, and, of course, ERBFest and “The Master of Adventure” himself.
Our featured image is excerpted from Peter Stevens’ cover for the November 1947 issue of Popular Publications’ Black Mask. Stevens’ cover art will also appear on William Campbell Gault’s collection of Mortimer Jones’ stories, Hot-House Homicide, debuting at PulpFest 2025 from Steeger Books.
Chris Kalb designed the cover for Age of Aces’ third collection of Donald E. Keyhoe’s Devildog Squadron stories. Entitled The Mystery Meteor, it collects four 1934 World War I stories featuring “the maddest Marines on the Western Front!” Chris is one of our nominees for the 2025 Munsey Award.
Jeffrey Ray Hayes of Plasmafire Graphics created the cover art for Robert J. Mendenhall’s fifth volume in his Code Name: Intrepid series, Case Violet, published in 2025 by Blue Planet Press. Mendenhall’s series is a pulp-style action and adventure series set in the 1930s about a highly-skilled team of military and civilian daredevils who confront threats to the nation that are of extraordinary or unnatural order.
Sarah Myer is an Eisner-nominated comic artist, writer, and colorist best known for their award-winning graphic memoir Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story and their current run illustrating the interiors and covers for over 15 and counting issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures monthly comic. Sarah created the cover for Green Archer Comics’ Buck Rogers vs The Cyber Lords.
Closing our post is Douglas Klauba’s cover art for The Night Shepherd, the fourth volume in Craig McDonald’s terrific series, The Adventures of Zana O’Savin. A pastiche of classic pulp characters such as Pat & Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger, and the Domino Lady, the O’Savin stories debuted in 2022.
And speaking of the Man of Bronze, don’t forget to visit the PulpFest YouTube Channel for Craig McDonald’s latest episode of Pulp Talk. It’s an interview with Chuck Welch, who recently resumed publishing The Bronze Gazette following a year-long hiatus.
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