As of mid-July, the PulpFest 2026 Auction more than 210 lots of material up for bid. All of the lots submitted have been cataloged, photographed, and uploaded to our auction page. You’ll find our photographic catalog by clicking the “2026 Auction” button located on our website.
Included in our 2026 Auction are 8 early issues of Weird Tales in good to very good condition; copies of New Worlds Science Fiction, long the leading British science fiction magazine; an autographed first edition copy of Robert Bloch’s 1947 novel, The Scarf; the first paperback edition of Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled mystery, The Big Sleep; the first issues of Confession Novel of the Month, TheFrontier, Red Hood Detective Stories, Texas Rangers, and other pulps; two Stephen King first editions; early paperbacks by Philip K. Dick, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and others; two original appearances of Robert E. Howard stories in Argosy, and much more.
Of particular note is the George A. Rawling collection of hero and aviation pulps. Largely purchased by George (1921-2012) from American drugstores and newsstands of the 1930s and early 1940s, our hero pulps include Captain Future, Doc Savage Magazine, and The Shadow Magazine. The air pulps are Sky Birds and the Street & Smith pulps and bedsheets featuring the aerial adventures of Bill Barnes. To learn more about this amazing collection, please click here.
We also have six lots from the estate of Robert R. Barrett. Bob was a legendary, lifelong Edgar Rice Burroughs scholar, a regular contributor to Burroughs fandom, and a major fixture in mid-century pulp collecting out of Wichita, Kansas. A personal friend of Frank Frazetta, Philip José Farmer, and Richard Corben, he was also co-founder of the fanzine Squa Tront with Jerry Weist and Roger Hill. Two of the Barrett lots are works by Farmer, personally inscribed to Barrett.
Online Bidding
For those unable to attend PulpFest 2026 or attendees who wish to bid anonymously, the convention will accept bids placed through the “online bid form” found in our photographic catalog. The bid that you submit will be your final bid for the lot.
PulpFest will bid for our online bidders during the auction. We will continue bidding for each online bidder up to the amount of the person’s final bid. If no bid placed by the audience at the live auction is higher than the final online bid, the lot will be won by the online bidder.
To place your online bids, click the red “online bid form” button found on our “2026 Auction” page. Our online bidding form will open in a new tab.
When placing your bid, you will need to provide your name, email address, mailing address, and billing address (if different), your method of payment, the lot you are bidding on, and your bid amount. A separate form must be filled out for each bid.
Online bids of $10 or more can be placed on every auction lot in our photo catalog. The deadline to place online bids is 9 pm Eastern on Tuesday, July 28. After that time, the “online bid form” will be shut down.
Online bids on all available lots that are less than $10 will not be accepted. Please note that PulpFest does not charge a buyer’s premium.
PulpFest will accept checks or money orders (in U.S. dollars), PayPal, or credit card payments for items won through silent bidding. A 5% fee will be charged for all credit card or PayPal transactions. There will be additional shipping charges for those who cannot pick up the lots they have won.
Consigning Material to the PulpFest 2026 Auction
We are no longer accepting online consignments to the PulpFest 2026 Auction. Our deadline to accept such material was 11:59 pm on Sunday, July 5, 2026.
Attendees of PulpFest 2026 will be able to consign material to the PulpFest 2026 Auction at the convention. We will accept consignments up through noon on the day of the auction, Saturday, August 1. The sooner you can get your items to us, the better. Please click the “2026 Auction” button located on our website to learn more about consigning material to the PulpFest 2026 Auction.
The PulpFest 2026 Auction is scheduled to begin at 8 pm on Saturday, August 1. If you’re interested in bidding or consigning, or have other questions, please write to PulpFest auction coordinator, Mike Chomko, at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104 for further information.
The deadline to place online bids is 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, July 28.
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 John Philip Falter’s cover for The Saturday Evening Post, dated August 5, 1944. Born in 1910, Falter painted 129 covers for the popular magazine, as well as book illustrations, magazine ads, and a great deal more.
Derek Starr is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began contributing to our website in 2022. He particularly enjoys the Fiction House pulps. One of his favorites is Planet Stories, the publisher’s legendary science fiction pulp. He’s also a fan of their air pulps and Action Stories.
