Year after year, there are countless individuals and organizations that help to make PulpFest such a great event. The PulpFest organizing committee wants to thank everyone for their invaluable assistance in helping to make PulpFest 2025 a success. We could not have done it without you.
Our front desk staff — Marge Coiner, Sally Cullers, Samantha and Eli Cullers, Jack Cullers, and David & Regie Powell.
Our panelists and presenters — Chris L Adams, Jim Beard, John Bruening, Christopher Paul Carey, Bob Deis, Wyatt Doyle, Win Scott Eckert, Henry G. Franke III, Ron Hill, Morgan Holmes, Ed Hulse, Bernice Jones, Chris Kalb, Tim King, Doug Klauba, Tom Krabacher, Craig McDonald, William Patrick Maynard, Will Murray, Laurie Powers, Garyn Roberts, Kurt Shoemaker, Michael Stradford, Mark Wheatley, and Cathy Wilbanks.
A big thank you to Henry G. Franke III for co-hosting ERBFest 2025 and its art show. Also, thanks to the Meteor House crew for their help with this year’s Farmercon, and Ron Hill and Scott Cranford for co-hosting Doc Con 2025.
Many thanks to Mike Chomko for the time he devoted to assembling this year’s auction. Also, a big thank you to David and Regie Powell, as well as Jack Cullers, for their work before, during, and after our PulpFest 2025 auction. Thanks also to our auctioneers, John Gunnison and Joe Saine, and our auction staff, Marge Coiner, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, and Regie Powell.
We want to thank our technical staff – William Lampkin – and our behind-the-scenes help – David Saunders and Dan Zimmer. We’d certainly be remiss if we forgot to mention our contributors to pulpfest.com — Norman Bean, Mike Chomko, Pete Collins, Jack Cullers, Kenneth Grant, Jeanne Harding, William Lampkin, Craig McDonald, Leslie Silberberg, Derek Starr, and Emile C. Tepperman, IV. Additionally, we also received a letter from The Golden Master, Shiwan Khan, that we posted to our website.
A very big thank you to Craig McDonald for the many videos that he created throughout the last year for the PulpFest YouTube Channel. Do yourself a favor and subscribe by clicking here. Join our hundreds of subscribers to catch Craig’s latest video production.
Thanks must be extended to Kate Knecht, Kristin Oakes, Phillip Wintgens, and the rest of the terrific staff at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry.
The organizing committee would also like to thank the people who helped to create The Pulpster #34 – editor William Lampkin, assistant editor Peter Chomko, publisher Mike Chomko, Minuteman Press Kettering, plus contributors Kurt Brokaw, Michael R. Brown, John C. Bruening, Tony Davis, Jen DiGiacomo, Henry G. Franke III, Ed Hulse, Don Hutchison, Craig McDonald, Will Murray, Darrell Schweitzer, and Jeffrey Shanks.
Many thanks also go out to the magazine’s advertisers – Cleveland ConCoction, Columbus Moving Picture Show, Crippen & Landru, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Fantasy Illustrated, Flinch Books, Heartwood Books & Art, Heritage Auctions, Craig McDonald, Author, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Meteor House, New Texture and the Men’s Adventure Library, Paperback Warrior, PS Artbooks, Readercon, Recoverings, Stark House Press, Vanguard Publishing, We Are Doc Savage, Well-Stacked Books, and the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention.
A special thank you to Shasta/Phoenix Art for sponsoring our PulpFest 2025 welcome banner and New Dimensions Comics, Pittsburgh’s largest retail seller of comics, for the free giveaways.
Many thanks to the nominators and the Lamont Award, Munsey Award, and Rusty Hevelin Service Award winners who helped to select the winner of this year’s awards — John DeWalt and Ray Walsh. Congratulations to John and Ray, as well as all of the nominees for our 2025 Munsey Award. Thank you to 2024 Munsey Award winner Gene Christie and 2012 Rusty Award co-winner Jack Cullers for presenting this year’s awards. Click here to watch a video of this year’s awards ceremony.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for the books and other materials that were donated to PulpFest for distribution to our members or to serve as door prizes: Jim Beard of Becky Books, Crippen & Landru, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Henry G. Franke III & ERBFest, Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Flinch Books, Meteor House, and Mike Chomko, Books.
We would also like to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for loaning the convention their sound system. Thanks also to our website sponsors, Jim Gerlach and ERB Books, Jess Terrell and the For the Love of All Things Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heritage Auctions, Mike Chomko Books, ThePulp.Net, Starship Sloane, Publishing, and Vanguard Publishing.
Many thanks to Jack Cullers, Alex Daoundakis, Steve Ericson of Books from the Crypt, Martin Grams, Todd McDevitt of New Dimension Comics, Craig McDonald, Jesse Noble of Gem City, Doug Simms of Heroes and Games, and the conventions, bookstores, comic and collectible shops, and writers that helped to promote our show by distributing and displaying our advertising materials. We should also mention the websites, newspapers, and other media outlets that promoted PulpFest throughout the Pittsburgh area, in particular, Littsburgh: Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh.
Let’s not forget about Nick Anderson of Streetlight Printing for the PulpFest t-shirts that were the hit of this year’s convention. If you were not able to attend the convention, or were too late before your size sold out, you can still get a shirt by clicking the T-shirts link at the top of our homepage. In addition to owning Streetlight Printing, Nick is also the administrator of The Book Graveyard Facebook group. Be sure to catch his video about this year’s PulpFest on the Book Graveyard’s YouTube Channel.
Thanks also to all of the dealers who contributed to our annual opening day bash, Pizza at PulpFest, on Thursday, August 7 — Rommin Adl, John and Maureen Gunnison of Adventure House, 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, Dwight Fuhro, William Carney & Mark Egner of Gieger and Archer Books, 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, Mike Parsons, Tim Paxton of Tim’s Books, Brandon Purvis of The Book Rapport, Garyn & Virginia Roberts, Rick Santman, Darrell Schweitzer, Steven Spilger, Michael Stradford, Terry’s Old School Comics, Bill Trible, We Are Doc Sausage: A Documentary on Pizza Pandom, Chris Maffei of Well-Stacked Books, Mark & Carol Wheatley, Richard C. White, John Wooley, Derek Woywood, and Kathy & Larry Hallock of Ygor’s Books.
Finally, thank you to the dealers, attending members, and supporting members of PulpFest 2025. It was due to your encouragement and support that our convention was successful. Our final attendance stood at 464 members, about 30 more members than our previous high.
We hope to see all of you in the coming year — along with a good many newcomers — for PulpFest 2026. We’ll be saluting the 100th anniversary of Hugo Gernsback’s groundbreaking science fiction pulp, Amazing Stories. Its number one issue, dated April 1926, was the first specialized science fiction magazine to be published. We’ll be celebrating the centennial of Bernarr Macfadden’s Ghost Stories and more at PulpFest 2026. And don’t forget about our associated conventions — Doc Con 2026, Farmercon XXI, and the brand Shadow Con, devoted to the “Master of Darkness.”
Please join us from July 30 – August 2 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania, for PulpFest 2026.
Remember to book your hotel room early. Almost all of our rooms were gone several months before our 2025 convention was scheduled to begin.
If we’ve neglected anyone, please accept our apology and our gratitude. Write to our marketing and programming director, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com, and the oversight will be corrected.
For a short video about next year’s PulpFest, please visit our YouTube Channel for a look at Craig McDonald’s new video, Make Your Plans for PulpFest 2026!
And while you’re there, be sure to add your name to our growing subscriber list.
Our original “Masters of Blood and Thunder and More” image was adapted by William Lampkin from Clinton Pettee’s cover for the October 1912 issue of The All-Story, illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel, “Tarzan of the Apes,” printed in its entirety. Bill also adapted our PulpFest 2026 advertisement from Alex Schomburg’s cover art for the February 1964 issue of Amazing Stories.
Schomburg, who is best known for creating more than 500 covers for comic books, painted twenty covers for Amazing Stories, with all but two of them contributed between 1960 and 1965. Next year, we’ll be saluting the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories. We hope you will join us for PulpFest 2026.
The Munsey Award was created in 2009 by artist David Saunders, the son of legendary illustrator Norman Saunders. Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press produced a limited, signed, and numbered edition of the award. The print also serves as the Rusty Award. The PulpFest Organizing Committee is indebted to both David and Dan for their generous support of our community.
Leslie Silberberg is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began posting on our website in 2022. She enjoys the science fiction pulps, particularly the work of such leading female writers as Leigh Brackett, Claire Winger Harris, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, C. L. Moore, Margaret St. Clair, Wilmar H. Shiras, Francis Stevens, and Leslie F. Stone. Many thanks to Ms. Silberberg for her contributions to pulpfest.com.
