Our PulpFest 2025 auction was held on Saturday, August 9, beginning at 9 pm. We had a total of 270 lots in this year’s auction, including 40+ so-called “half-lots.”
The highlights of the auction were two lots of Street & Smith’s People’s Magazine. Each of these lots sold for amounts far north of $1500.
Click the 2025 Auction button at the top of our homepage to find the results of our 2025 auction. Every realized price is listed within the photographic catalog found at the bottom of our auction page. The price realized is at the end of each catalog entry.
You’ll also find a link to a PDF of our PulpFest 2025 Auction Catalog, as well as a link to a PDF of our PulpFest 2025 Auction Additions Catalog, listing items that were consigned after our main catalog had gone to our printer.
If you’re interested in consigning to our 2026 auction or have questions about our auction, please write to PulpFest auction coordinator, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104.
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 Peoples Favorite Magazine for April 10, 1919, with cover art by P. J. Monahan. Street & Smith launched People’s Magazine with its July 1906 number. A companion to The Popular Magazine, in its early years, it emphasized detective fiction rather than the adventure stories found in other general fiction magazines. Beginning in 1915, it became the regular home for H. Bedford-Jones’ adventures of John Solomon.
