If you’re a dealer who specializes in pulp magazines, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, series books, first edition hardcovers, original art, dime novels, men’s adventure, true crime, digest, or slick magazines, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials, and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, or Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age comic books, then PulpFest is for you.
PulpFest, however, is not only a terrific venue to sell vintage material. It’s also a great place to market science fiction, mystery and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, and more. The people who attend our convention love genre fiction and art, old and new.
Publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, Murania Press, and New Texture do well selling their pulp reprints and related materials at PulpFest. So do resellers such as Mike Chomko, Books. Contemporary authors and publishers such as John Bruening, Charles F. Millhouse, Will Murray, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Meteor House have likewise found PulpFest to be a great event for selling their contemporary and classic genre fiction. After all, our afternoon programming centers around contemporary genre fiction and art.
Our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry is quite large. It accommodates 150 six-foot tables. Island tables cost $110, while wall tables cost $120. We also have 20 – 25 more tables in the foyer outside our dealers’ room entrance. Foyer tables cost $110 and are guarded by security overnight.
All dealers and their helpers are also required to purchase full weekend memberships. Advance memberships cost $40 if staying at the DoubleTree and $50 if staying elsewhere.
You can click here to download the convention’s 2026 registration form. For additional registration information, please click the “registration” button at the top of our website. Write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com if you have any questions.
We will allow early-arriving dealers to begin setting up on Wednesday evening, July 29, from 6:45 p.m. until 8:50 p.m. Absolutely no one who is not a dealer or dealer’s helper will be allowed into the dealers’ room during this time. No buying, selling, or trading will be permitted during this period. This time is meant to be used for set-up alone.
Dealers will also be able to set up on Thursday, July 30, starting at 8 a.m.
Our dealers’ room will be open daily from 9 am until 4:45 pm from July 30 to August 1. It will also be open on Sunday, August 2, from 9 am until 1 pm. Dealers may begin packing up as soon as the room opens on Sunday.
All dealers will also be able to submit material to our Saturday Night Auction. Further details will soon be available.
The convention will be promoted through web-based advertising and postcard giveaways at bookstores and comic shops, collectibles and pop culture conventions, and other venues. PulpFest will also be advertising in Alter Ego, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, and other publications, including several convention program books. We’ll also be listed on convention calendars such as Fancons.com and Upcoming Cons, as well as the event calendars at Pittsburgh City Paper, Positively Pittsburgh, and other local websites.
During the week of July 6, we’ll be posting about all of the dealers who will be selling at PulpFest 2026. Our marketing and programming director, Mike Chomko, will be putting these posts together and releasing them through our homepage and social media sites.
We recommend booking your hotel room as soon as possible. Last year, the hotel sold out two months before the start of the convention.
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree, please click the “Book a Room” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage. You can also reserve a room by calling 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest or use the code CDTPF7 to receive the special convention rate of $138 plus tax per night.
Two complimentary breakfast coupons are included in our hotel’s nightly rate, as well as free wifi and parking. Rest assured, PulpFest is very appreciative of all the dealers who help to reduce the convention’s substantial costs by staying at the DoubleTree and supporting our host hotel.
If you use Hilton points to book your stay, the complimentary breakfasts are not included with your reservation.
So what are you waiting for? Start planning now to attend PulpFest 2026 as a dealer and sell to hundreds of readers and collectors at the pop-culture center of the universe!
We look forward to seeing you from July 30 – August 2 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just nineteen miles north of Pittsburgh in Mars, Pennsylvania. Please join us at PulpFest 2026 — “Summer’s Amazing Pulp Con” — where your sales will simply be Fantastic!
For more information about becoming a PulpFest dealer, please contact Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com or by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305. He’ll be happy to send you further details.
Our featured image is excerpted from Bill Lampkin’s photograph taken in our PulpFest 2024 dealers’ room.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from H. W. McCauley’s cover art for the July 1943 issue of Amazing Stories. The man in the image is none other than Ray Palmer, who was the editor of Amazing Stories at the time.
Our final image was adapted by William Lampkin from Frank R. Paul’s cover art for the April 1926 issue of Amazing Stories.
We’ll be saluting the centennials of Amazing Stories, Ghost Stories, and the birth of ERB artist Robert K. Abbett at PulpFest 2026. We’ll also celebrate the sesquicentennial of the birth of Jack London, the popular fiction writer and an early innovator in the science fiction genre. Click the 2026 Schedule button on our website to learn more.
And don’t forget that your PulpFest membership also includes Doc Con 2026, Farmercon XXI, and the first Shadow Con, a new mini-convention celebrating the “Master of Darkness.” That’s 4 conventions for the price of one! You can’t beat that deal!
Please join us July 30 to August 2 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry for PulpFest 2026, celebrating 54 years of summertime pulp cons. And don’t forget to visit our YouTube Channel and check out Craig McDonald’s look at The Savage Art of 1939!
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Ken Grant is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began writing for our website in 2022. He particularly enjoys the hero pulps and has written about pulp villains, Ron Hill’s documentary We Are Doc Savage, Talking Pulp with Craig McDonald, and more.
