There’s still time to get in on the action at PulpFest 2025 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania. Our dealers’ room will open to all at 9 am and will remain open until 4:45 pm.
Located in the Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree, 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. That’s why PulpFest is known as the “pop culture center of the universe!”
There is ample free parking surrounding the convention’s host hotel. It is very conveniently located at the intersection of three major roadways in Cranberry Township. The DoubleTree is just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate-79. The address is 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, Pennsylvania. We have a map on our website or click here for a link to a large map of the area.
For those who have not yet registered for PulpFest 2025, you can do so today from 9 am until 4:45 pm. A single-day membership for Saturday, August 9, will be available for $25. Children who are fifteen and younger and accompanied by a parent will be admitted free of charge. To help things move smoothly, please bring along a completed registration form. You can download a copy by clicking here or through the link found on our registration page. Paper forms will also be available at the door.
Registration will take place at the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Watch for our welcome banner. Your PulpFest membership also includes membership in Doc Con XXI, ERBFest 2025, and FarmerCon XX. That’s four conventions for the one price!
If that’s not enough, 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 storesin the area, New Dimension’s closest location is just 2.5 miles from the DoubleTree at 20550 Route 19 in Cranberry Township.
Our daytime programming will begin at 12:30 pm, starting with Steve Holland: The Torn Shirt Sessions, a look at the actor and model selected by artist James Bama (and later, Bob Larkin and Joe DeVito) to play the role of pulp superhero Doc Savage.
We’ll also have Fifty Years of George Pal’s The Man of Bronze and a showing of the “Fan Cut” of Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — The Fan Cut, part of our Doc Con XXI programming.
The ERBFest 2025 art show will continue today. Honoring the sesquicentennial of the birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, it will take place in the Chestnut Room, across from the hotel’s main elevator. The art exhibit will be hosted by Henry G. Franke III, the editor of The Burroughs Bulletin and The Gridley Wave monthly newsletter.
Our daily auction preview will run from 3:30 – 4:45 PM. We’ll be selling over 200 lots of material from a few small estates and lots consigned by members of the convention. The auction will take place tonight, beginning at 9 pm. The general public is welcome to attend and bid. To learn more or to download an auction catalog, click here.
Our full evening programming slate will begin at 6:55 pm, beginning with a look at PulpFest 2026 by convention chairman Jack Cullers and marketing & programming director Mike Chomko. This will be followed by the presentation of the 2025 Munsey Award and our Raffle Drawing, sponsored by ERB Books.
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, a $350 value. 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. You don’t need to be present at the drawing to win.
You’ll also be able to purchase PulpFest t-shirts at our registration desk in a variety of sizes. Your choice of black or royal blue with the PulpFest logo across the chest. Click the link in our top menu to learn more.
Our last programming event for the evening will be Ray Bradbury, Burroughs’ Disciple, featuring Professor Garyn G. Roberts, winner of the 2013 Munsey Award. Our PulpFest 2025 auction will follow the conclusion of Garyn’s talk.
People who desire to attend the PulpFest auction — but not the convention itself — are welcome to come. If non-PulpFest attendees wish to bid during the auction, they will have to register as bidders. There will be a $5 non-refundable registration fee to bid during the auction.
Non-PulpFest attendees will be able to register to bid during our 2025 auction from 8:30 – 8:50 pm in the PulpFest 2025 programming area, where our auction will take place.
We’ll close out the night with a Barsoomian Bull-Session in the Ember & Vine lounge at the DoubleTree, always a highlight for ERBFest members. Anyone can attend. ERBFest co-host, Henry G. Franke III, reports there will be several door prizes available to fans at Saturday night’s socializing in the hotel’s Ember & Vine social lounge and restaurant.
You’ll find our complete schedule for Saturday, August 9, below. You can also access our schedule via our homepage by clicking the 2025 schedule button on our home page or via your mobile phone or tablet, by visiting pulpfest.com/schedule/. Each event on the schedule is linked to a post that provides additional information about the event. Just click on the event’s title.
Watch for the “panels” banner to find our programming area at the convention. The general public is welcome to attend all of our programming, free of charge.
If you are not from the Pittsburgh area and have yet to book your room for PulpFest 2025, please call 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733 to reach the DoubleTree. Although the convention rate is no longer available, there may be some vacancies at the hotel. Other options include the Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, or Home2 Suites. They’re all less than two miles away from our host hotel. Click here to learn more.
Please travel safely to summer’s pulp con.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Dealers’ Room
9:00 am – 4:45 pm — Dealers’ Room Open to All PulpFest Members
9:00 am – 1:00 pm — Submit Your Auction Items to PulpFest (Dealers’ Room)
Art Show
11:30 am – 1:30 pm — ERBFest — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Master of Adventure (hosted by Henry G. Franke III in the Chestnut Room)
Afternoon Programming
12:30 pm – 1:25 pm — Doc Con — Steve Holland: The Torn Shirt Sessions (Michael Stradford)
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm — Doc Con — Fifty Years of George Pal’s The Man of Bronze (Ron Hill and Chris Kalb)
2:30 pm – 4:15 pm — Doc Con Film Showing — Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze — The Fan Cut
Auction Preview
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM — Auction Preview (in Willow & Walnut Rooms)
Evening Programming
6:55 pm – 7:15 pm — Looking Toward PulpFest 2026 (Jack Cullers & Mike Chomko — all members are welcome)
7:15 pm – 7:30 pm — 2025 Munsey Award Presentation
7:30 pm – 7:35 pm — ERB Books Raffle Drawing
7:40 pm – 8:25 pm — ERBFest — Ray Bradbury, Burroughs’ Disciple (Garyn Roberts)
8:30 pm – 8:50 pm — Last-Minute Auction Preview (in Willow & Walnut Rooms)
9:00 pm – 11:30 pm — PulpFest 2025 Auction
11:35 pm – ?? am — ERBFest — Barsoomian Bull Session— Socialize at Ember & Vine
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 was adapted by William Lampkin from Allen Anderson’s original art for the Spring 1950 issue of Planet Stories, illustrating Henry T. Simmons’ novella, “Flame-Jewel of the Ancients.” Also appearing in the issue was Ray Bradbury’s short story, “Forever and the Earth.”
Our final image is the 11th issue of New Worlds, dated Autumn 1951, with cover art by Reina M. Bull. The artist, who also signed her work RMB and Janine, has been compared to Margaret Brundage, well-remembered for her iconic covers for Weird Tales. Bull’s covers were sexual at a time when the emphasis was on hardware or alien landscapes. Author Brian Aldiss called her “one of the most remarkable artists to enter the British field.” All told, Reina Bull contributed a handful of covers and interiors to New Worlds and its companion title, Science Fantasy. You’ll find the issue in lot #178 of our 2025 auction.
